best movies and music for bass
ronaldo141
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hey guys. what do you think the best movies and music are for testing subwoofers? right now i use the opening scene of tomorrow never dies with the big end explosion and various scenes of crouching tiger, hidden dragon.
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Music-wise, I have a few that would fit you criteria, but I'll throw only one out at ya for now:
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
I use that cd on my 'break in' rig. If you can stand it, it does offer some great bass transients, reaching down to 22~Hz on some passages.
Cheers,
RoosterCheck your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service. -
Let'em rip Dr. Spec!!!!!
LOTR original version
The Haunting
Matrix
TPM pod race -
nething eminem - it'll blow ur subwoofer, dont say I didnt warn ya!
The song I love Big speakers...serious bass - nothing but bassDamn you all, damn you all to hell.......
I promised myself
No more speakers. None. Nada. And then you posted this!!!!
Damn you all! - ATC -
Nething?
WAY too many 'snow days' in your neck of 'da woods'.Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service. -
I just have to laugh at that one...enough saidRTi10
CSi5
RTi28
SVS PB12-ISD2
Denon 2106(pre/pro)
Adcom 5503(200x3)
Audioquest Diamondback ICS
Kimber Kable 8tc biwire(mains and center)
"Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall."
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Originally posted by scottvamp
Let'em rip Dr. Spec!!!!!
Here ya go!
For recent vintage music: The Gladiator soundtrack on CD has some very deep and powerful bass notes. My Advents ignore them, and that's really saying something since they are flat to at least 32 Hz.
For movies:
A. I.: Artificial Intelligence (dts)
Air Force One
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Band of Brothers
Black Hawk Down
Blade II (dts)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
From Hell (dts)
The Haunting (dts)
Jurassic Park III (dts)
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (theatrical version is strongest)
The Matrix
Minority Report (dts)
Monsters, Inc.
Pearl Harbor (dts)
Saving Private Ryan (dts)
Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Terminator 2 (dts)
Titan A. E. (dts)
Toy Story 2
U-571 (dts)
We Were Soldiers"What we do in life echoes in eternity"
Ed Mullen (emullen@svsound.com)
Director - Technology and Customer Service
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thanks dr. spec. I had heard good things about u-571. Hopefully I'll have a chance to rent your suggestions sometime soon.
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Originally posted by RuSsMaN
Nething?
WAY too many 'snow days' in your neck of 'da woods'.
It pose to snow again sunday night, we'll see!!!! IM HYPER!Damn you all, damn you all to hell.......
I promised myself
No more speakers. None. Nada. And then you posted this!!!!
Damn you all! - ATC -
Music tracks:
Moby: Verb, what's a happenin'. From the School House Rock CD
George Clinton: Erotic City. From the P.C.U. soundtrackMake it Funky!
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Back in the day, we tested Amps for clipping using the Bass from that hit by the girl who tore up the popes picture and shaved her head.
Nothing Compares 2 U
"At the first bend, I had the clear sensation that Tazio had taken it badly and that we would end up in the ditch; I felt myself stiffen as I waited for the crunch. Instead, we found ourselves on the next straight with the car in a perfect position. I looked at him, his rugged face was calm, just as it always was, and certainly not the face of someone who had just escaped a hair-raising spin. I had the same sensation at the second bend. By the fourth or fifth bend I began to understand; in the meantime, I had noticed that through the entire bend Tazio did not lift his foot from the accelerator, and that, in fact, it was flat on the floor. As bend followed bend, I discovered his secret. Nuvolari entered the bend somewhat earlier than my driver's instinct would have told me to. But he went into the bend in an unusual way: with one movement he aimed the nose of the car at the inside edge, just where the curve itself started. His foot was flat down, and he had obviously changed down to the right gear before going through this fearsome rigmarole. In this way he put the car into a four-wheel drift, making the most of the thrust of the centrifugal force and keeping it on the road with the traction of the driving wheels. Throughout the bend the car shaved the inside edge, and when the bend turned into the straight the car was in the normal position for accelerating down it, with no need for any corrections."
Enzo Ferrari -
If you want some cool great MUSICAL (no rap!) bass try Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' song, "Flight of the Cosmic Hippo" Holy crap that song digs deep. With Victor Wooten on the bass you can't go wrong!
anything by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones has good musical bass.Sony KDL-40V2500 HDTV, Rotel RSX-1067 Receiver, Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray, Slim Devices Squeezebox, Polk RTi6, CSi3 & R15, DIY sub with Atlas 15 -
I love Bela... Caught him once on Austin City Limits and got hooked. Electric banjo... you have to be kidding, right? Wrong...
4 CD's here including "Flight of...". Just cranked up title cut. I think the house gonna fall... :eek:
WARNING: BION it's actually taking it easy on you for the first couple minutes of the title track, then at ~2:25, coming out of the bass solo, it really gets serious...
HTH did I miss this? You have listed a great rafter duster tryrrthg (but you need to buy a vowel there, Bud
.) Rest of CD does cut some slack, including "Flight of.. (reprise)".
Can only address the audio side of life here as well. If you are inclined to consider classical, then run to George Richie's Bach organ works collection on Titanic TI-158.
Otherwise, for sustained bass (albeit some intentionally distorted) throughout an entire CD, I still know of nothing to match my beloved Portishead's Dummy.
Track 1 hits you pretty good, some relief on track 2, and then 3 warms things back up for #4, "It Could Be Sweet". Even at moderate volume it shakes the place, and no sub here (yet)... 5 & 6 back off a notch, then comes 7, Numb back at ya (and you might be by then). 8 backs off again, but the opening is a great standing wave detector in the lo/mid bass range. Then 9, Pedestal is back at it again. 10 gives a little break and 11, the last track, "Glory Box", lulls you back down to earth before giving you one last, little slam right between the ears at the 4:15 mark, just before fade-out.
Techno, yeah, if you have to label it, and sampling is included in five tracks, but no rap here. Leads by Beth Gibbons are sometimes spoken, but mostly sung in a light, sweet, airy voice that leave you wondering HTH it stands up to the heavy background, but it does.
What was the question??? :rolleyes:
Sorry, not the first time Ive gone on about this CD, and probably not the last. It may be one of my personal, guilty pleasures, but I just love it.
Edit: Sumflow - thanks for the www.lyrics.com link... should clear up a couple "no clue" gaps like one line in "Tall Cool Woman" and most of "Louie, Louie"...
More later,
Tour...
Vox Copuli
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb
"Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
"It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
"There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD -
Interesting you mentioned Sinead O'Connor..... I was going to recommend some Prince songs for bass, and he happened to write the song you posted the lyrics too (Nothing compares 2U). He recorded it in something like '85, but it didn't hit. He let her sing it and she hit big in '90, I think. He either rereleased it or rerecorded it after that..
The song "7" by Prince has some very low and musical bass... I think he fills up a LOT of the musical spectrum on his tracks, especially the low end. There is an opening verse that is almost a cappella, then the bass really kicks in.. and it IS notes, not just boom boom. The song New Power Generation is also musically bassy.
I like only a few select Prince songs since the Purple Rain album came out, but his music IS very musical and contains many many different types of instruments/sounds. And as I said, he fills in the low end with real notes, even if most people's systems can't produce them.
Q: Tall Cool Woman?? Any chance you mean Long Cool Woman (in a black dress)?? by the Hollies? Great song... I burned a copy and gave it to my wife.. she's 5'10" and long and leggy... -
I've only heard a few Bela CD's. I just got into him after a friend of mine brought Bela's Greatest Hits along with him to demo some Wilson Watt Puppy's. man can Bela get blasted on those bad boys!
The CD "Outbound" has some good bass in it also. All around good stuffSony KDL-40V2500 HDTV, Rotel RSX-1067 Receiver, Sony BDP-S550 Blu-ray, Slim Devices Squeezebox, Polk RTi6, CSi3 & R15, DIY sub with Atlas 15 -
That battle scene in Pearl Harbour when the Japanese aerial torpedos are sinking ships has ridiculous bass, ridiculous, Im lucky my speakers still work.. Deftones has good bass, and DMB has good bass for live albums, especially the new folsom field release
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Originally posted by burdette
Q: Tall Cool Woman?? Any chance you mean Long Cool Woman (in a black dress)?? by the Hollies? Great song... I burned a copy and gave it to my wife.. she's 5'10" and long and leggy...
Yup, "Long..." , I always do that on this song.
Lyrics, hell... I need help on Titles...
Edit: Great song... you bet. It consistantly is one of the 20 or so in my list of Top Ten singles of all-time...
More later,
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Vox Copuli
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb
"Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
"It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
"There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD -
Pink Floyd's 'Welcome to the Machine' has incredible bass,
rumbles my subwoofer as good as any movie. It
can be found on 'Wish you were here.
MikeFronts: SDA1C's
Rears: SDA2's
Center:CS400i
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lol, Half Baked has some cool rap in it.
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Many of Enigma's tracks have pretty defined and downlow basslines.
Lamb has some badass basslines. Thievery Corporation, Kruder and Dorfmeister, some serious bass on some of those tracks.
I love when my 9's resonate the kitchen light LSi 9/C/FX
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There's a track on an old Stereophile test CD (CD#3) by a bass player named Dean Peer (Swedish I think) called "Lord's Tundra". It has some hellish sustained deep notes. It's a solo bass piece.
Always intended to p/u a CD by this guy. A bass playin' fool he be. More sounds than a bass ought to be able to produce, and at one time with, supposedly, no overdubbing... I feel an Amazon search coming on....More later,
Tour...
Vox Copuli
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb
"Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
"It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
"There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD -
anything from the label bass mechanics..it is breaks and house music, known for sub sonic frequenciesSpeakers:
Definitive BP7001sc mains
Definitive C/L/R 3000 center
Polk RT800i's rears
Definitive supercube I Sub
Audio:
Onkyo TX-NR3010
Emotiva XPA five Gen 3
OPPO BDP-103 CD, SACD, DVD-A
Video:
Panasonic TC-P65ZT60
OPPO BDP-103 Bluray
Directv x's 2 -
The [URL=http://store.hbo.com/product/VMHHV0081/s.SJbkRKGC[/url]HBO DVD [/URL]logo gives a sub a good work out!"At the first bend, I had the clear sensation that Tazio had taken it badly and that we would end up in the ditch; I felt myself stiffen as I waited for the crunch. Instead, we found ourselves on the next straight with the car in a perfect position. I looked at him, his rugged face was calm, just as it always was, and certainly not the face of someone who had just escaped a hair-raising spin. I had the same sensation at the second bend. By the fourth or fifth bend I began to understand; in the meantime, I had noticed that through the entire bend Tazio did not lift his foot from the accelerator, and that, in fact, it was flat on the floor. As bend followed bend, I discovered his secret. Nuvolari entered the bend somewhat earlier than my driver's instinct would have told me to. But he went into the bend in an unusual way: with one movement he aimed the nose of the car at the inside edge, just where the curve itself started. His foot was flat down, and he had obviously changed down to the right gear before going through this fearsome rigmarole. In this way he put the car into a four-wheel drift, making the most of the thrust of the centrifugal force and keeping it on the road with the traction of the driving wheels. Throughout the bend the car shaved the inside edge, and when the bend turned into the straight the car was in the normal position for accelerating down it, with no need for any corrections."
Enzo Ferrari -
Just a few...
Jeff Berlin - "Pump It" - one of my all time BASS albums - ever
Jeff Berlin & Vox Humana - "Champion"
Jeff Berlin - "Taking Notes"
Bruford - "Gradually going Tornado"
Jaco Pastorius - (Self Titled)
Most "King Crimson" stuff (later stuff w/Tony Levin)
All early Sabbath and Tull Stuff
Anything from "Liquid Tension Experiment" or Bozzio/Levin/Stevens (Black Light Syndrome/Situation Dangerous)
And if you're in the mood for some serious Rickenbacker Bass --
Early "Yes" (Symphonic Live on DVD/DTS-Is a MUST)
Love 'em or hate 'em --- "Motorhead" any disc (Early Stuff,is Best IMHO)
And of course -- Early "RUSH" -- C.O.S/2112/A.F.T.K./Hemispheres/
Cygnus X-1 (the end of A.F.T.K) and Hemis.(The continuation of the dreaded "Concept Album")
Don't Forget early E.L.P. or Billy Cobham's "Warning"
Much more !
CHEERS ! jefffArt as expression-Not as market campaigns-Will still capture our imaginations. -
Gotta agree with Sumflow on the HBO intro.
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I would also like to mention that Terminator 2 Special Edition was incredible. I think I saw my sub sweating afterwards. That was the best movie I've listened to yet.
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Update the list boys:
K-19: The Widowmaker
The bass is so strong on this DVD, my sub moved itself right across the floor in one scene and there was so much air coming out of the vents you could have used it as a hair dryer.
A. I.: Artificial Intelligence (dts)
Air Force One
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Band of Brothers
Black Hawk Down
Blade II (dts)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
From Hell (dts)
The Haunting (dts)
Jurassic Park III (dts)
K-19: The Widowmaker
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (theatrical version is strongest)
The Matrix
Minority Report (dts)
Monsters, Inc.
Pearl Harbor (dts)
Saving Private Ryan (dts)
Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
Terminator 2 (dts)
Titan A. E. (dts)
Toy Story 2
U-571 (dts)
We Were Soldiers"What we do in life echoes in eternity"
Ed Mullen (emullen@svsound.com)
Director - Technology and Customer Service
SVS -
Originally posted by Dr. Spec
Update the list boys:
K-19: The Widowmaker
The bass is so strong on this DVD, my sub moved itself right across the floor in one scene and there was so much air coming out of the vents you could have used it as a hair dryer. +
Could be your sub is running a little hot there Doc... better run a sweep...
I may skip the SVS and just triple port a Vidal Sassoon...... More later,
Tour...
Vox Copuli
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. - Old English Proverb
"Death doesn't come with a Uhaul." - Dennis Gardner
"It's easy to get lost in price vs performance vs ego vs illusion." - doro
"There is a certain entertainment value in ripping the occaisonal (sic) buttmunch..." - TroyD -
Good one BET! Sasoon my ****!
All jealous detractors WISH they had that problem from their wimpy sub.
Owners of REAL subwoofers are proud of problems like walking subs, falling knick knacks, cracked plaster, vibrating HDTV screens, mysterious buzzing, canted picture frames, dead pet birds, blurred vision, lost denture fillings, visits from the cops, and the like.
One guy plugged a port on his Ultra and didn't stick it in tight enough and when the ship exploded in the SWII-AOTC opener, it shot out of the port like a nerfball launched from a cannon and bounced off the ceiling. Now THAT'S moving some serious air."What we do in life echoes in eternity"
Ed Mullen (emullen@svsound.com)
Director - Technology and Customer Service
SVS -
