koputai Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Folks, I'm after some recommendations for tracks with excellent, clear, musical bass. I want to really suss my low end. I've always disliked (Daz doesn't like it when I say hate) subwoofers, but my current mains just can't get down very low. I tried to get it going with one sub, nothing worked. I'm now using two subs, left and right, fed with left and right signals. I dislike to say it, but I think this setup actually works, and actually sounds good. Me..... Subs...... Whoodathunkit. Now I'm after music, not doof doof mega bass whatever, I'm after real music with real bass. I'm thinking probably organ pieces? Suggestions please. Thanks, Jason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelossus Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, give it a chance and listen to the whole song. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qwerter Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Excellent bass on this recording: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proftournesol Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Not organ but Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Black Earth (doom jazz not metal) for some ground shaking bass goodness 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crisis Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 (edited) Saint Saens - Symphony No.3 in C minor Op.78 Bjork - Hyperballad Car of the century - The journey begins . This is a CD my mate bought for testing car audio systems which has a number of tracks designed to test different attributes of a system. The first track "The journey begins" has an excellent plunging synth bass. It is a little hard to find this CD though. Yeah, not all organ but thats what I got. Edited February 11, 2017 by crisis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyr Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 10 hours ago, koputai said: Folks, I'm after some recommendations for tracks with excellent, clear, musical bass. I want to really suss my low end. I've always disliked (Daz doesn't like it when I say hate) subwoofers, but my current mains just can't get down very low. I tried to get it going with one sub, nothing worked. I'm now using two subs, left and right, fed with left and right signals. I dislike to say it, but I think this setup actually works, and actually sounds good. Me..... Subs...... Whoodathunkit. Now I'm after music, not doof doof mega bass whatever, I'm after real music with real bass. I'm thinking probably organ pieces? Suggestions please. Thanks, Jason. Not sure what you're going to achieve? Surely you have to hear those same tracks on someone else's system who does have good base to 20hz, to be able to judge yours? Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JukKluk2 Posted February 10, 2017 Share Posted February 10, 2017 Just about any Nitin Sawhney album will give your system a bottom end workout. Displacing the Priest would be the first cab off the rank with him. Also get hold of Terry Callier's album Timepeace, the grey cover version. Standout track for bottom end excursion, and musically too, being Lazarus Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koputai Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 15 hours ago, kelossus said: Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo, give it a chance and listen to the whole song. Wow! That's a cool bit of music. Listening to the whole album now, so far, so good. Thanks for the recommendation Chris. Cheers, Jason. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koputai Posted February 11, 2017 Author Share Posted February 11, 2017 15 hours ago, qwerter said: Excellent bass on this recording: Indeed. I have a few versions of Pictures on CD, but this one beats them all for bass. Thanks for the heads-up. Cheers, Jason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwertyqaz Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Some nice recommendations, need to get some now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kab Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Marcus Miller M2 cd has got tight, clean, deep bass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelossus Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, koputai said: Wow! That's a cool bit of music. Listening to the whole album now, so far, so good. Thanks for the recommendation Chris. Cheers, Jason. If you are digging their music I would suggest their first self titled album. It, in my opinion is their best. The tracks, "Sunset Road" and "The Sinister Minister" are great. Edited February 11, 2017 by kelossus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Yello Toy, particularly track 13 Magma - very trippy and deep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafe67 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 The ost to passion of Christ by Peter Gabriel is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uniball Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Swan Song by Submotion Orchestra — Varying bass depth Brick is Red by Pixies — Realistic drums impact Mountains by Hans Zimmer — deep deep bass, organs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafe67 Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 OST to inception and interstellar contain plenty of bass 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_mike Posted February 11, 2017 Share Posted February 11, 2017 Maxwell - Embrya Not really my type of music, but I still enjoy listening to it because of the tight low bass. Talk about hearing the bass strings vibrating! I use it as a reference recording to test components. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafe67 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 (edited) Can I suggest Deleriums Semantic Spaces. This is is an older older album of theirs while electronic it is not doof doof, electronic music with female vocalist and either world music samples, choirs, percussion. Delerium al bums are well recorded , never bloated or overly compressed. Strongly reccomended. Edited February 18, 2017 by cafe67 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Umberto Echo: Dubtrain dub reggae on the Enja label, very well recorded! http://www.junodownload.com/products/umberto-echo-dubtrain/3274598-02/ regards Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steam Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 If you can find it Gary Karr: Adagio D' Albinoni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemack Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 If you can find it Gary Karr: Adagio D' Albinoni I've got this lp and yes. The bass is wonderful. Also, bjork Vulnicura. Earth shaking bottom end. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jebediah Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 On 18/02/2017 at 7:59 PM, cafe67 said: Can I suggest Deleriums Semantic Spaces. This is is an older older album of theirs while electronic it is not doof doof, electronic music with female vocalist and either world music samples, choirs, percussion. Delerium al bums are well recorded , never bloated or overly compressed. Strongly reccomended. This was a favourite at the time for my old boss whom owned a music shop that I worked in back in the mid to late 90's....very Enigma like from memory. Haven't seen this cover for quite a few years. Would love to hear it on wax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cafe67 Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 1 hour ago, Jebediah said: This was a favourite at the time for my old boss whom owned a music shop that I worked in back in the mid to late 90's....very Enigma like from memory. Haven't seen this cover for quite a few years. Would love to hear it on wax Better the enigma , similar to deep Forrest but a harder edge and vocals 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 (edited) Particularly cruel and will only play on the absolute best systems properly WARNING, will kill ported speakers Edited February 21, 2017 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian McP Posted February 22, 2017 Share Posted February 22, 2017 Not for the faint hearted! Avant garde and abstract yet strangely addictive! http://www.pulsewidth.com/ourobouros.html < ourobouros - music for feedbacking audio processors. A favorite, and in a newly designed package."Ranks among the very best of contemporary 'computer music' recordings I've heard in recent years... Myers' ability to sustain the tension between strangeness and familiarity is impressive, and his music on this CD is quietly and consistently compelling." —Bill Tilland, Motion Reviews > derived from pure electronically feedbacking audio processors, this has some truly scary high and low frequencies, heard this on a bespoke high performing class A amp/speaker system recently (modified Heil AMT tweeters, incredibly revealing) expecting smoke from the woofers and tweeters at any moment, they survived! regards Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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