Prana Ferox
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The lower bass goes, 1) the less audible it is, 2) the less controllable it is. You end up with the venue interfering in all kinds of ways, peaks and dead spots, structure rattles etc. It also (as others have already said) takes a ton of power and driving area. Since the human ear will interpolate from the harmonics anyway, it is generally not worth the hassle. The Front Of House sound team will aggressively EQ that stuff out whenever they can, I would imagine especially in a historical venue with lots of hanging fiddly bits.
'Kick bins' to give that visceral impact to the kick drum tend to be tuned around 100hz. For regular bands, content tends to drop off pretty quickly somewhere around there. There are other threads here (or just go to Talkbass) talking about bass guitar fundamentals and why it's both not worth the hassle and a bad idea from the FOH perspective to try to reproduce low fundamentals when the harmonics are what matter.
If you listen to 'Berlin techno' what I remember from that is that the kick is fairly high in frequency as well. Some modern genres they do get deeper into the sub-bass but I'm not sure how / how much of that is replicated live, or attempted.
If you want to get that impact in your house,
- EQ the bass hot, maybe 12dB hot if your system can take it
- Crank it, 110dB with 12dB hot bass means you're in the 120s
- Have a bunch of people in your house sympathetically moving with the music. For Floyd this may require drugs
- Pay to repair your belongings, building damage, noise violations
'Kick bins' to give that visceral impact to the kick drum tend to be tuned around 100hz. For regular bands, content tends to drop off pretty quickly somewhere around there. There are other threads here (or just go to Talkbass) talking about bass guitar fundamentals and why it's both not worth the hassle and a bad idea from the FOH perspective to try to reproduce low fundamentals when the harmonics are what matter.
If you listen to 'Berlin techno' what I remember from that is that the kick is fairly high in frequency as well. Some modern genres they do get deeper into the sub-bass but I'm not sure how / how much of that is replicated live, or attempted.
If you want to get that impact in your house,
- EQ the bass hot, maybe 12dB hot if your system can take it
- Crank it, 110dB with 12dB hot bass means you're in the 120s
- Have a bunch of people in your house sympathetically moving with the music. For Floyd this may require drugs
- Pay to repair your belongings, building damage, noise violations