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Andrew Russell NYC

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #20 on: January 22, 2007, 01:37:39 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM23ySeZSRk


lords of Acid- Pussy

thumps..   not really PC lyrics and it is old and cheesy!!!

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #21 on: January 22, 2007, 02:51:33 AM »

There's some content reaching down to the 28-29hz range on the Fiona Apple album "Extraordinary Machine".  I think the 'I just had to break the window' song has a strong drum sound in the verses based at about 29 hz.  I checked it out with spectrafoo several months ago.  IIRC the "busted stuff" album from Dave Matthews has some solid stuff in the mid 30's.  
Hey Bink, I posted this link several weeks ago in another thread about lower bass content but didn't spark any discussion.  I wonder if it has anthing to do with the differing opinions on the importance of low bass.     http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t4 0690.html
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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #22 on: January 22, 2007, 09:12:12 AM »

Interesting link, Drew. I didn't do the test on myself--I'll wait until I have the time and focus--but a quick glance through the discussion makes it clear to me I will be checking it out further.

In school, one of my favorite classes was psychoacoustics. The linked experiment is square in the middle of that.  Cool

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2007, 12:23:32 PM »

Michael 'Bink' Knowles wrote on Mon, 22 January 2007 08:12


In school, one of my favorite classes was psychoacoustics.  Cool

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It's a darn cool word too.  "Prepare the Psychoacoustics and then bring in our first victims, Ahahahaha." - Sentence heard uttered in the basement of Heidelberg University.    


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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2007, 04:36:41 PM »

I have that CD with the original Cover!!!  Twisted Evil

    I don't remember it having exceptionaly Low Bass But I'll have to revisit it.

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2007, 06:13:47 PM »

Antone Atmarama Bajor wrote on Mon, 22 January 2007 13:36

...I don't remember it having exceptionaly Low Bass...


Continuous 52Hz thumping, not much lower.

Confused

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2007, 08:56:50 PM »

We at Danley love listening to recordings where the engineers missed the HVAC noise because their playback couldn't reproduce it!
But here are some cuts that haven't been mentioned that intentionally have great low end and we love to use them to show off stunning low end.

Annie Lennox's Bare project is a must.
First cut is 1000 Beautiful Things and it has very serious 30-35 Hz but the whole album is wonderful.  John Murray turned me on to this project and I later found that Jonathan Deans of Cirque fame loves the project as well.

Daniel Powter of American Idol, You Had a Bad Day fame.
His solo project first song Song 6 has a huge sweep that most systems miss.

Switchfoot
Dare you to move.  Second verse when John sings "Welcome to the fall out", unless you have something like a Danley DTS-20 you probably will never hear the sweep down to practically DC!

Mike Hedden
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Mark "Bass Pig" Weiss

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2007, 02:51:19 AM »

I have a number of Japanese pop albums with bass down to 17 hz and a Korean one with a recurring 29Hz bass note. Then there are the recordings with close-miked percussion that have wavefronts around 10Hz and up.  A lot of stuff out there has bass below 35Hz.

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2007, 11:31:30 AM »

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...A lot of stuff out there has bass below 35Hz.


Yeah, if you count note start events and are happy with relatively weak, natural levels. In analyzing a hundred songs I thought were full of LF content I found that most had byproduct activity down there but only a few had seemingly intentional musical events. Most had prominent 50-60 Hz stuff and some had 40Hz. Very few prominent below 35Hz.

By byproduct LF I mean things like the impulse energy at the start of a sound.

There was one woman I miked up at a large corporate conference who had tons of LF activity in her voice; every time she started a phrase, the sound (as seen on SmaartLive spectrograph screen) would rise quickly buy noticably up from single to multiple glottal pops then swing into her natural low alto voice.  Fundamentals around 100Hz. She was barrel-shaped with reinforced foundation undergarments helping to hold the lavalier mic directly out in front of her chin. Heroic proportions. She also had the kind of growly voice tempered by years of cigarettes and whiskey. At any rate, to this date, she's the person with the lowest reading I've ever seen pass through my SmaartLive spectrograph and it's because the start of each phrase developed much more slowly out of glottal pops.

I wouldn't use her voice for fun extra-low subwoofer tests, though. It's much more rewarding to me to discover a synth bass line walking through such low notes.

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Re: Songs that are strong below 35Hz
« Reply #29 on: January 24, 2007, 04:32:59 PM »

http://www.realmofexcursion.com/audio/Bassotronics/bassilove you.mp3

Try that Smile Be careful though...especially if you aren't using a hpf on your subs...there are two different LFE's, one around the low 20hz area, and one even lower closer to 10hz.
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