Bass songs...

[Pastore]

its not how loud the sound is that will kill it... its distortion... you can put a million watts through a sub with no distortion...

distortion is the enemy...

 

[Electric Amish]

Sorry, I don't know any songs about fish.

amish

 

[step-dawg]

Check out the Beastie Boys song "The move" off of the Hello Nasty album. I know you said no rap but they are not exactly you're typical rap group. Very nice bass in this particular song.

 

[thereds]

<< Ace of Bass >>



true true

 

[piku]

<< fatboy slim - everybody needs a 303

song isn't that great but for some reason this one part hits harder than all the bass tests i have >>


hehe I was going to just reccomend that song. That part is killer

 

[sharkeeper]

Try this.

This clip has a tremendous amount of low frequency information and will cause amplifiers to hard clip if abused. It doesn't sound very loud because the extreme low frequency material uses all the available dynamic range! If you play this and the sound suddenly becomes distorted or your speakers start blowing fiberglass out of the ports, you're playing it too LOUD!

If you have a system capable of healty first octave (10~20 Hz) output, prepare for quite a shaking!

Cheers!

 

[kami]

<< Totally incorrect. Played loud enough, any song regardless of length of tone can blow a speaker. >>


DUH... I wasn't talking about volume, I was talking about bass tones in general. Playing one of these bass test songs at VOLUMES YOUR SPEAKERS CAN HANDLE won't damage them. But playing a continuous bass tone at volumes your speaker can handle COULD damage them.

I learned this from the guys who make SVSubwoofers.

 

[Alansan]

You must play this.
&quot;I Got That Fire&quot; by Juvenile
Album: Tha G-Code

 

<< none, stupid kids driving around with thier invadingly loud bass...they should make it illegal to listen to such loud obnoxious music while driving...drives me crazy...
>>


wah wah wah

There are a ton of tracks.
Piku - chemical brothers hits rather hard and resonates quite a bit.
You could take any of my techno tracks from my crate and make your car rumble.

 

[sharkeeper]

Actually there are usually two kinds of failure associated with dynamic loudspeakers. Thermal and mechanical. If you feed a 30 cm transducer designed for a sealed enclosure 50 volts AC at 20 Hz, without a load (known as free air) you can bet it will get damaged quickly. You can take the same woofer and load it in an enclosure and feed it over 100 volts at 45 Hz and it would probably be able to reproduce the sound but the voice coil may over heat. If the former gets too hot, it will lose shape. The varnish may start to bubble and the windings will short out.

Feeding a woofer DC is a good way to do this. Making sure your amplifier has sufficient capacity is a good way to prevent this. If your woofers are of a reflex design, you should incorporate a highpass filter with a fairly steep slope of 24 dB/octave close to the tuning point. Reflex speakers offer little or no over excursion protection if driven with frequencies much below their tuning point. Some manufactures use shorted rings at the end of the voice coil windings to prevent woofers from getting out of control and slapping. Others use a progressive suspension combined with a domed back plate.

Biamplified systems in mobile applications experience the highest failures especially in the hands of people that are new to car audio. They often overdrive the LF amplifier and the clipping distortion is never heard because the HF section masks it. Either that or they don't know the sound of an overdriven amp! The voice coils in the woofers often burn up because of this.

Cheers!

 

[Atlantean]

Get the tomb raider soundtrack, there are some good songs with lotsa bass in there.

 

[zimu]

reggae has some amazing bass...

 

[divinemartyr]

<< I learned this from the guys who make SVSubwoofers >>



And some of the best subwoofers out there I might add. I'm planning to buy one myself once I get the cash. Pricey though!

dm