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sox input.wav -n remix - rate 200 spectrogram -z 60
Thanks for this. It worked beautifully!

I couldn't resist going through the tracks that others posted just to see these spectrograms...enjoy! ;)

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This is fun! :D
 
The Last Of Us - Track 17/30: "Infected" (Official Soundtrack) / computer game
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The Last Of Us - Track 10/30: "By all means" (Official Soundtrack)

Didn't play the game, just from some spotify test playlist.
 
I've always been a big fan of the bass notes that start at the 1:00 mark of the Enya song "Watermark" from the album of the same name. "The Long Ships" from that same album also has some deep notes which I have heard others recommend in similar threads.
 
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I've always been a big fan of the bass notes that start at the 1:00 mark of the Enya song "Watermark" from the album of the same name. "The Long Ships" from that same album also has some deep notes which I have heard others recommend in similar threads.
Here's "Watermark":
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Here's "The Long Ships":
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Here's a nice, obscure one. Both better at bringing speakers to their knees, and being an enjoyable track on its own, than the last killer-bass song I posted:
 
Here's a nice, obscure one. Both better at bringing speakers to their knees, and being an enjoyable track on its own, than the last killer-bass song I posted:
Here you go :)
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Yes, it took me about 2min to do...as you can tell by the timestamp of your post and mine. :D
 
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starts unobtrusive and then it goes down to ~30Hz

Thomas Newman - Dead Already (American Beauty OST - 1999)

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Nice, so cool to use the entire song visualized! Has anyone use the spectrogram to 'measure' speaker output?

Yes, I do realise it's sort of redundant next to anechoic measurements / impulse responses, but it seems like an interesting way to compare against the source file. Esp. for youtube reviewers who like to record the playback for others to 'listen' to.
 
I analyzed top 25 songs from Spotify's playlist called "25 of the best tracks for testing bass"
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4n1KtzMJUvh8enJhXWInfb?si=PaY_ZJ2rSwurU0CF16WS0A
Has 3,500 followers.

My Analysis:
- Of the 25, 4 were unavailable on YouTube, so I skipped those
- Most weren't really bass killers, haha

Here's the top 5 noteworthy tracks:
1. James Blake - Limit To Your Love (Official Video)
Starts at around 1min mark...
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2. Rhythm & Sound - Mango Drive
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3. The Hidden Camera · Photek
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4. The Weeknd - Wasted Times (Official Audio)
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5. The XX - Fantasy
Starts at 80 sec mark...
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This is fun educational thread to figure out what is actually audible and if you need a subwoofer. Most of the time I can switch off my subs (xo 29hz@48dB/oct) and not notice anything missing. Some tracks like "The XX" above seem to have lots of stuff 0-30hz, but it's really low in level and hearing is not good there, if I isolate my subs it's just some minor "thud thud" that would get swamped if I have my mains on. Also overall it can be quite a level difference depending if there's just some small frequency streak somewhere, or the whole range is red.

Not really music, but here's also a fun sub test.. :p


Launch @ ~650s (10min)
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This is fun educational thread to figure out what is actually audible and if you need a subwoofer. Most of the time I can switch off my subs (xo 29hz@48dB/oct) and not notice anything missing. Some tracks like "The XX" above seem to have lots of stuff 0-30hz, but it's really low in level and hearing is not good there, if I isolate my subs it's just some minor "thud thud" that would get swamped if I have my mains on. Also overall it can be quite a level difference depending if there's just some small frequency streak somewhere, or the whole range is red.

Not really music, but here's also a fun sub test.. :p


Launch @ ~650s (10min)
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Nice, some decent "combed" pattern left below where most music "ends" (<30Hz) at around 700-750 sec...:)

Not exactly a reason to buy a sub though :)
 
Here's another pipe organ piece which I think has even more sustained sub-20Hz bass, and which is another favorite for evaluating bass. Could you analyze it?

Aria
 
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