Attack and degrade?

[LosIsATool 5,000+ posts]

After doing HOURS of tuning going off the MECA SQL handbook I think I figured out what these two terms mean but I would like clarification.

After hearing what I think was decay, the sound trailing off outside the stage, I fixed it.

I'm thinking attack is the opposite but I'm not sure. If it is I'm golden.

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[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

Attack is the first sound we hear from an instrument, like a drum stick hitting a snare drum. The attack might last for a few ms. Decay would be the sound continuing that tapers off in intensity. On a snare drum that would be the resonance of the drum and the beads that vibrate against the lower skin.

[video=youtube;85mWsMJOh-8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mWsMJOh-8?t=1h31m59s

Start at 1:32:00 if the link doesn't work like I intended.

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

Yeah it's a time response thing.. Snappy is a good subjective term to describe what your looking for.