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Roger Waters - Three Wishes. If your system reproduces this song well, you will hear significant separation between Roger Waters voice and the bass voice of the Djinni.
Peter Gabriel - Digging in the Dirt off Secret World Live. Highly likely to anger the neighbors with this one.
White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
I think you are going to have a tough time finding jazz that is going to realy make your sub shine. Jazz is played with real instruments. An upright and electric bass, tuned normally, will only deliver a 41.5hz note. Bass drums don't go any lower. So What is one of the best tracks as a solid subwoofer can help tighten up the opening notes.
You may find some deep notes in some piano focused jazz since the piano goes down to 27.5hz. Look for Herbie Hanckock or Duke Ellington tracks. I don't know one off hand, but that is where I would look.
I owned the Roger Waters & Peter Gabriel... but only had mp3 version of the White Stripes.
My favorite was the Roger Waters.. I have never ever heard that song in this way before! Another smash hit only a sub can provide! That Genie or whatever was awesome.
As for ALL of the songs, I notice that if I am sitting on my couch with the back wall right up next to me, there is way too much Bass..but if I just move forward a few feet closer to my ideal listening chair, everything resolves very clearly.
I am thinking rear wall loading is a common problem and I shouldn't worry about it; other than applying a room treatment eventually to the back wall?
Again, great suggestions!
Ron
The Crystal Method: High Roller...NASA & Astronaut exchange in the beginning..and "the signal" is a very very low electronic bass.
Additionally, the drum kit hits very low. Classic techno/house.
This song caused my bookshelves to "click" in two places...they bottomed out for the first time ever. lol. So I was forced to turn down the volume from 11 to 9.
:-)
I remembered about a modern jazz artist with a ton of Bass, and his best album in my opinion:
Gato Barbieri: Que Pasa
Very good. The Bass just drops down very very low...electronic vs. acoustic makes the leap.
Ron
Lars bangs the double bass on "...and justice for all". The title track, Harvester of Sorrow & Dyers Eve come to mind! Soooooo pleasing with a nice sub!
No matter how you feel about Lars and where he stands on sharing music, that man can sure beat the skins!
I finally got around to jamming to the Metallica....while metal isn't my first best choice, I do enjoy a good head-banging once in awhile. The drums to me were very deep and rhythmic and I think what you were pointing out...excellent recommendation!
Best Regards,
Ron
For something with a bit of an edge that IMO, the musicians are better than Metallica would be:
Dream Theater (Prog Rock) where Mike Portnoy is one of the finest drummers living. Check out Pull Me Under which is their biggest hit. Drums combined with the synthesizers (remember I said Prog Rock) will show off your sub nicely. Panic Attack of Octavarium is another great tune from them.
Avenged Sevenfold where The Rev is just brilliant. Unfortunately The Rev died after the writing but prior to the recording of the Nightmare album and the drummer they found to fill in for that album was none other than Mike Portnoy. Avenged Sevenfold usually gets classified as metal core due to there first two albums but they have monstrous productions incorporating strings, horns, pace changes and many other signatures of strong prog rock and traditional metal bands like Maiden and Sabbath. I would encourage you to check out the tracks Afterlife and A Little Piece of Heaven off of the self titled fourth album Avenged Sevenfold and the song Nightmare if you don't mind a little profanity off of the Nightmare album.
Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Jamie Cullum- Twentysomething
Mickey Hart- Dafos
I never thought I'd see Avenged Sevenfold mentioned here...
A few good bass tracks IMO:
Dave Matthews Band, album: Before These Crowded Streets - Crush
Empire Brass Quintet, album: Passage - Weck: Hupfer Tanz (16th century folk dance)
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, album: Cambridge: The Very Best Sacred Christmas Carols - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and Adeste Fideles (unfortunately only available on Amazon as an MP3 download)
The Birthday Massacre - anything off the Walking with Strangers or Superstition albums
O.A.R., album: In Between Now and Then - Dareh Meyod
Reggae by Burning Spear! Try the Live at Montreux album.