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What music/albums do you guys use to test your equipment?

Yeeterkeeter

Yeeterkeeter

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I was wondering if there were any good songs/albums that can be used to test equipment. I personally use everloving by moby to test stereo range, scarlet fire by Otis McDonald to test tone range, and DSOTM as an overall test. What songs do you guys use?
 
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Not vinyls (yet, if enough CDs sell they will be doing a press) but this CD will be in the test rotation. Live in studio to tape with no digital processing.

Sounds like your ( ;) ) sitting on the couch in the studio. :thumbsup:

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Auditioning new speakers now.

a few I take are:

1. John Barry - The beyondness of things
2. Patrick Williams - Aurora
3. Jim Messina - Under a mojito moon
4. Tony Bennett - The art of romance
 
heard this band on a local college radio station and sent away for their CD, although i don't see it in their website.....

Father Figuer

Home page of Father Figuer, an indie group from Burlington, VT
fatherfiguer.com
 
An old Shure test record, Then 2 well recorded albums
Anything from Dire Straits
The 2015 remaster of THE DIVISION BELL …Pink Floyd
 
DB-7 said:
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream
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AU-G99x in your avatar, AND Joe Satriani ? Win.


I have countless tracks I know like the back of my hand, and that's really what matters (knowledge of the sound of a recording) but here's some of my own favorites.

1) Diana Krall - I'm an Errand Girl For Rhythm
2) Bjork - Hunter
3) Tool - Prison Sex
4) Alison Krauss - It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference

I just realized these are all tracks, not an album, per se. Essentially, the tracks are from albums that are well-known by my ears and very pleasantly mastered.
 
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