1999, Karl Coryat, The Bass Player Book, Backbeat Books (1999), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
From the straight-up intensity of “The Power of Equality” and the Meters-influenced “If You Have to Ask” to the Bootsy-drenched, polysaturated phatness of “Sir Psycho Sexy,” Flea offers an amazingly complete lexicon of funk, hip-hop, and even reggae.
1999, Peter Shapiro, Drum 'n' Bass: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides (1999), →ISBN, page 210:
Thankfully, the Jaco Pastorius and Buddy Rich fetishes only showed up sporadically and his textures approached warmth and phatness.
Analogue-like phatness can be achieved through the final distortion stage which offers two options: screaming edge or soft fat warmth.
2013, Chris Buono, The Guitarist's Guide to Line 6 Studio Tools, Cenage (2013), →ISBN, page 196:
Once you experience the phatness a bass amp can inject into a signal, […]
2013, Exquisite Corpse, or, How Not to Kill Your Neighbours, Blackfriars (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
He's always telling Beth about the enormity of his next gig and the extraordinary phatness of his latest beats, and to be fair he can drop a good tune.
2014, Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of It All, Harvill Secker (2014), →ISBN, page 237:
[…] and we'd listen to the playback, agreeing like mad on its phatness, its superiority to anything contemporaneously attempted, […]
2015, Ian Corbett, Mic It!: Microphones, Microphone Techniques, and Their Impact on the Final Mix, Focal Press (2015), →ISBN, page 76:
But if a sound source is a little thin, and needs some warmth, body, or “phatness,” a tube mic could provide useful “sonic makeup.”