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[Caleb Dueck]

When I was in college, it was always Dave Matthews Band "So Much to Say". 

Others I've used - GnR "Sweet Child of Mine" - mostly because I've heard it so many times.

Various Dave Matthews Band tracks.
Various Collective Soul tracks.

John Mayer - "Bigger than my Body"

More recently - Avenged Sevenfold "Hail to the King".  I just happen to like the sound of the drums, the guitars, the vocal. 

[Mike Monte]

Hello all, and happy Thanksgiving!

I'm curious about what music tracks you all are using to demo PA systems or familiarize yourself with a system you're about to use.

I know the main idea is to use tracks you are very familiar with, so you can immediately recognize when certain sounds or details pop out at you on a new system, and recognize the characteristics of the system. I understand that this is not a replacement for measurement.

I'll share my playlist:

Aaron Neville: Louisiana 1927
Stevie Wonder: Sir Duke
Adele: He Won't Go
The Beatles: I Want You
Needtobreathe: Prisoner
Phish: Free
Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
2Pac: I Get Around
Tonic: If You Could Only See
Stevie Wonder: Love's in Need of Love Today
Bob Marley: I Shot the Sheriff
AC/DC: Thunderstruck

I mainly put mine together based on songs I already own, trying to have a variety of genres, and making sure everything was fairly well produced. I wasn't very scientific about it.

Curious to see what you all are using!

Page One by Tower of Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB5tmptwhu8
I use the original CD. The tune has good drum kit sound (including HiHat) with a good representation of bass, vocals, horns, and guitar.
...oh...and I am a huge TOP fan...

[David Allred]

Would not a well produced live recording (Joe Bonamasa - Royal Albert, for example) serve better since compressed much less?

[Simon_Barrett]

Hell freezes over version of Hotel California by the Eagles. There’s quite a lot of information in it but I especially like to test the kick of the subs with it.


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[Tim McCulloch]

Would not a well produced live recording (Joe Bonamasa - Royal Albert, for example) serve better since compressed much less?

Maybe?

I had a BE play some of the most tonally grating, compressed-to-death tracks as eval.

It suited the act he was working for.

Why play Steely Dan, for example, if it sounds acceptable on almost anything?

[Mac Kerr]

k.d. lang "Miss Chatelaine" from her album Ingenue. When her vocal sounds right the system sounds right.

Mac

[John Lackner]

Tina Turner - Goldeneye,
Tangerine Dream - Towards the Evening Star, the Angel of the West Window,
The Who-Tommy
Sound System By Steel Pulse. With a name like that an almost perfect choice.
Or anything recorded/produced by T-Bone Burnett.
For setting delays I use the Rei Momo album by David Byrne or Synchro
System by King Sunny Ade.

[John L Nobile]

I used to use Quincy Jones Back on the Block. Opening track and Birdland. Full freq range and lots of vocals, rapping, speech and Q's production.

I'm going to look for my CD now.

[Steve Ferreira]

I have been using Diggin' on James Brown from Tower of Power.

[Mac Kerr]

Hello all! New here. Trying to step up my sound system knowledge.

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