BASS!

[dasdoing]

he drums are pretty deep

a little over 40Hz acording to my Motu FFT. still pretty deap for a natural intrument

 

[Shiva]

This song from Vini Vici & Astrix, gets my subs going quite pleasantly.

 

[pavuol]

Cospe - Super 1

 

[pavuol]

delicate bass in a delicate song by delicate girl

Alice Boman - In Circles

 

[Alexium]

a little over 40Hz acording to my Motu FFT. still pretty deap for a natural intrument

Thank you for this remark. I thought it was in the 30s for sure, if not below 30. Your comment prompted me to investigate a little bit, and I was surprised to find out that most tracks I thought of as having really deep base only go down to 50 Hz sometimes, often even bottom out around 60. That's not deep at all in my book. I guess I underestimated the heft of 50 to 60 Hz sine.

Here's the only track I've found so far by casual listening that goes below 40.
I haven't checked with a spectrum analyzer; what I do is swing the 31 Hz slider on the graphic EQ from -15 to +15 dB and listen for any changes. The next slider is 43 Hz, to give you an idea for its Q.

 

[dejv]

The last 30 seconds on this one is always fun on a true full range system.

 

[dasdoing]

Thank you for this remark. I thought it was in the 30s for sure, if not below 30. Your comment prompted me to investigate a little bit, and I was surprised to find out that most tracks I thought of as having really deep base only go down to 50 Hz sometimes, often even bottom out around 60. That's not deep at all in my book. I guess I underestimated the heft of 50 to 60 Hz sine.

that's totaly normal. what we percieve as "good bass" in a song is most of the time around 50Hz. below 40Hz makes the bass fuller, but those frequencies are more in the background in our perception

 

[hege]

Groovy

 

[Alexium]

The last 30 seconds on this one is always fun on a true full range system.

I needed to boost my Hifiman HE-400 by 10 dB in the 20..30 Hz region to understand what you meant. This is the kind of bass I was looking for!

 

[Alexium]

 

[pavuol]

So I was listening to my mp3 playlist in my cheap old car with lowend soundsystem lately and even without a sub I realized this easy pop track felt somehow boomy:

La Roux - Tropical Chancer

 

[pavuol]

very nice minimal jazz.. intimate, "shy" bass, yet constantly present

Arve Henriksen · Eivind Aarset · Jan Bang · Jez Riley French - Pink Cherry Trees

 

[Vijay_kumar74]

Some Indian songs with kick bass. YT doesn't have that good impact though.

 

[pavuol]

Coh & Abul Mogard - Traverse Within

 

[pau]

sunday chill

 

[MaxwellsEq]

The Zubin Mehta 1971 recording of Holst The Planets captures the Organ Pipes at around 22Hz in the last couple of minutes (hxxps://www.discogs.com/master/46131-Holst-Los-Angeles-Philharmonic-Zubin-Mehta-The-Planets).
I heard The Planets performed at the London Royal Albert Hall and the earth-moving effect at the end of Saturn made the hairs stand up on my arms. I can't quite recreate that energy at home
The sample below is from the 24bit / 176kHz FLAC which is extracted from a DSD file (it has a hump of ultrasonic noise)

 

[MaxwellsEq]

Robert Wyatt's album Cuckooland (hxxps://www.discogs.com/master/23589-Robert-Wyatt-Cuckooland) has a track "Brian the Fox", which has quite a lot of low frequency energy between 25 and 50 Hz.

 

[Soria Moria]

 

[MaxwellsEq]

The re-issued edition of Kate Bush's The Dreaming (hxxps://www.discogs.com/release/12834910-Kate-Bush-The-Dreaming) has a track "The Dreaming" which features a regular "orchestral crash" with quite a lot of energy between 20 and 30 Hz:

 

[Timcognito]

Believe it or not car guys used this to show off their subwoofers in the 80s. Best on Qobuz or Tidal