have you noticed how a distorted bass makes any song sound good?

[dpopiz]

you know, when they put a big rumbling distortion on the bass?

best example = rage - kill a man

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Have you ever noticed how a lot of beer makes any woman look good?

 

[brxndxn]

Have you noticed how a lot of makeup makes a man look like a ridiculous man?

 

[igowerf]

Too much bass sucks. I don't know why people like turning up the bass for everything. I actually my Winamp equalizer set so there's less bass. I can actually hear other stuff in my music now and I enjoy it much more. Go figure.

 

[conjur]

I thought this was going to be a jab at those morons whose cars vibrate and make more noise than their speakers when they crank it up.

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: igowerf
Too much bass sucks. I don't know why people like turning up the bass for everything. I actually my Winamp equalizer set so there's less bass. I can actually hear other stuff in my music now and I enjoy it much more. Go figure.

maybe when you upgrade your $10 2" speakers that you currently have you'll appreciate bass more 😉

 

[LAUST]

Guess that tells you how much the song sucks if it needs that much bass huh? Oops 😛

 

[XZeroII]

Music, to me, is more than just bass. I've even started to like jazz a bit (just a bit) because of some of the unique sounds they make. I've even heard songs where just a piano playing sounds awesome.

 

[Howard]

We can hear from 20Hz to almost 20000Hz. Do we really need to stay in the range of 30-60Hz? 😛

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: Howard
We can hear from 20Hz to almost 20000Hz. Do we really need to stay in the range of 30-60Hz? 😛

well we can feel frequencies below 20Hz, and you should always FEEL the music you listen to 😉

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: zimu

Originally posted by: igowerf
Too much bass sucks. I don't know why people like turning up the bass for everything. I actually my Winamp equalizer set so there's less bass. I can actually hear other stuff in my music now and I enjoy it much more. Go figure.

maybe when you upgrade your $10 2" speakers that you currently have you'll appreciate bass more 😉

Well, I work in Pro Audio and too much bass sucks through 24 : 18in subs with 1KwRMS / Spkr as much as it does through a crappy 10 in car sub.
It's about PrOPER BALANCE!

 

[AlienCraft]

Originally posted by: zimu

Originally posted by: Howard
We can hear from 20Hz to almost 20000Hz. Do we really need to stay in the range of 30-60Hz? 😛

well we can feel frequencies below 20Hz, and you should always FEEL the music you listen to 😉

Not when it's 1 am and you live in an Apartment Complex.

 

[Allio]

The only song I can think of like that is Prodigy - The Trick. It's quite good.

 

[dpopiz]

ok, I'm talking about distorted bass *guitar*, not the bass part of the sound spectrum

like I said, listed to rage's ver of kill a man and you'll know what I'm talking about

 

[Howard]

Bass solo, take one. 😛

 

[prvteye2003]

distorted bass sounds like sh!t. Obviously, you have no idea what you're saying.

 

[Zorba]

Originally posted by: zimu

Originally posted by: Howard
We can hear from 20Hz to almost 20000Hz. Do we really need to stay in the range of 30-60Hz? 😛

well we can feel frequencies below 20Hz, and you should always FEEL the music you listen to 😉

Agreed 🙂 Anything over ~120Hz is extra crap.

 

[LordMorpheus]

anyone who likes bass should listen to Victor Wooten do his thing. Incredible.

That said, there is more to music than base. But that doens't mean the bass-heavy songs are all bad.

 

[thomsbrain]

eh. i think when a lot of bassists use it, it comes at the expense of the super low-end, and dynamics of the playing. but the bassist in my band has a really wicked distorted sound that he uses, so i know it can sound good. he uses two amps at once, with a mesa boogie providing the preamp section and a vintage 300 watt Ampeg loaded with KT88 tubes that provides a seriously punishing power section. KT88's will rock you so hard your butt falls off. that's pretty hard.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: AlienCraft

Originally posted by: zimu

Originally posted by: igowerf
Too much bass sucks. I don't know why people like turning up the bass for everything. I actually my Winamp equalizer set so there's less bass. I can actually hear other stuff in my music now and I enjoy it much more. Go figure.

maybe when you upgrade your $10 2" speakers that you currently have you'll appreciate bass more 😉

Well, I work in Pro Audio and too much bass sucks through 24 : 18in subs with 1KwRMS / Spkr as much as it does through a crappy 10 in car sub.
It's about PrOPER BALANCE!

Exactly. I don't like hearing massive amounts of rumbling when I'm listening to classical music or even 80s rock. I have a set of Altec Lansing ATP-3's which is a pretty decent 2.1 set.