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[Adam Kane]

Tons of good stuff here. Always good to learn about new music. Here's the stuff I use most often...not exhaustive, but this is the bulk of it.

Michael Ruff - Wishing Well
Chris Jones - No Sanctuary Here
Brian Simpson - And The Story Goes
Over The Rhine - Bothered
Chuck Loeb - Lockdown
Lou Rawls - Willow Weep For Me, God Bless The Child
Lorde - Royals
Richard Page - Shelter Me, If All Else Fails
Toto - Multiple cuts from Tambu
Yellowjackets - New Rochelle, Up From New Orleans
Zac Brown - Quiet Your Mind, No Hurry, Who Knows
Alice In Chains - Check My Brain, No Excuses
Lady Antebellum - Singing Me Home, Perfect Day
Alter Bridge - Come To Life, Before Tomorrow Comes
Eric Hutchinson - Rock & Roll (live), All Over Now (live)
Keb' Mo' - Lots of various cuts from Slow Down, The Door, and Blues Americana
Lizz Wright - Old Man, Trouble, Stop
Thousand Foot Crutch - We Are, Light Up The Sky
Several tracks from the Burning For Buddy albums
A few tracks from the Trolls movie soundtrack are great for sub/LF evaluation

I have a pretty eclectic taste in music...which works out well. If listening to a system for a live show, I try to pick something that somewhat resembles the genre that will be played...but not always. Obviously, certain tracks are better at diagnosing certain issues with the PA than others. A lot of my more critical listening material is WAV, the rest of it is MP3 no lower than 320Kbps. Although most of what I use to listen to a system is very nicely recorded material with a good dynamic range, sometimes I feel like I don't need that. If I'm walking a room to identify gaps or overlap in coverage, I think I can do that with FM radio playing as I'm listening to where it sounds different as opposed to how good it sounds everywhere. Just my 2 cents.

[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.

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