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What's your "go to song" to test bass in your rig?

An oldie, per se, but gets the job done.

Example:

Of course, when I test with that song I'm not using Youtube, I'm playing from a FLAC file.
 
If you just want to hear a lot of deep bass get a copy of one of the Bass Mekanik Series CD's. I have V5.0. It provides all the low frequency information one could want. I'm not particularly fond of the music. However, the tracks have plenty of low bass.

FWIW: I've always liked the bass on Suavecito, Malo, LP(first album),Warner Bros. BS 2584, original pressing. Another worth mentioning is Can't You Hear Me Knocking, Sticky Fingers, The Stones. I have the LP (original release, w/functioning zipper) and the CD. The LP walks all over the CD sound wise
 
I've posted this elsewhere on AK before. Don't laugh, but Sarah McLachlan's Into the Fire is one of my go to speaker test recordings. It has a nice tight bass line, sweet mids, and if speakers can reproduce all this and female vocals well they're good in my book.
Lots of Stanley Clarke's recordings like School Days are great also if you only want to test bass.
At my age anything above 12000 Hz is wasted.
 
David_NC said:
I am not a Mariah Carey fan at all, but this particular mix of this song is the only version that’s acceptable to me. It has some of the loudest, deepest sustained bass of any I’ve heard.
I especially like using it to demonstrate Subzilla that I completed a few months ago. This is a sealed 18” or so cube with a high excursion 15” driver. This sucker needs many hundreds of watts to really open up and shine, but that’s why I have pro amps. I’m currently using it with a QSC amp bridged to 900 watts mono. Even with clip lights flashing, it’s never sounded strained. Ever. It just gets more and more ridiculous with the amount of good, deep bass it outputs.
I recently took this sub and amp over to a friend’s house. We used it in his concrete walled and floored basement music room that also had a concrete ceiling with one wall facing outside. It’s got a framed finish ceiling with can lights. His system has dual 15” subs too, but I knew there’d be no competition with Subzilla. I was correct. All his can lights vibrated like crazy, as did a few other things. His subs did nothing like that.
The really fun thing is that the combination of this subwoofer and song typically makes people laugh. It’s not that annoying bass with rattle one commonly hears from some cars; it’s just crazy deep bass that you absolutely feel.
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We all have many, but one that is fun and has a surprising amount of "texture" for first octave bass is found in Rihanna's Hard.

Listen near 1:05 and later at 2:30 for what lies below. You should feel and articulate the weight in the room. Can't say if YT has the same bandwidth of the CD, but here goes:


For something completely different, try the Stay track on the 96/24 version of the soundtrack to Interstellar. Index to about 2:45 for the pedal stops.

 
Using the debut LP (the bass on the CD doesn't seem to be quite as defined), when The Doors' "Back Door Man" starts, a deep, repetitive bass line is present. It's not the deepest bass I have ever heard but it IS fairly deep and it's easy to use as a reference to check your system. In the verse where Morrison sings, "You men eat your dinner..." it goes even lower.

Doors
 
El Rubio said:
Crap, now I have to get a go-to song.
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LOL gotta love ^^^^ this ^^^^ comment !!!

I dont really have one "go-to" song...
Rather I can think of some that I would probably end up using if I felt a need to do a "time limited" bass SQ test.
Thing is I dont really do that sorta thing very often,so the need rarely ever has been there to do such.

Anyhow,some songs I'd probably use to test for bass SQ:

Change (In The House Of Flies) by the Deftones ~ RIP Chi Cheng.
Take The Power Back by Rage Against The Machine.
Would by Alice In Chains (either the CD version or the Unplugged in NY version).
Meatplow by the Stone Temple Pilots.
Freezing Process by Quicksand.
Forty Six & 2 by Tool.
Black Sunshine by White Zombie.
Fall Guy by the Rollins Band.
Dead Guy by Ministry.
Prove You Wrong by Prong.
Artifical Red by Mad Season (just about any MS song as the bass SQ is excellent on this disc).
(Cant You) Trip Like I Do by Filter & The Crystal Method.

And yeah my choices above are obviously biased towards the genre of music I listen to as SOP.

I'm sure I could come up with some others,but these came to mind pretty much off the top of my head.
And some of those songs are there not so much for how ample (upfront) the bass SQ is in the mix.
But they're useful more-so for still being able to make out the bass SQ that's "buried" in the mix.

To me it's important to be able to clearly hear what's there,iow ~ hearing the bass Hz seperation and definition.
Even if the other (mid & high) frequencies tend to dominate the overall mix of the given "test" track on is using.
If it's hard to differentiate the bass & drums in a given song,then that would make for a poor bass SQ test song IMO.
But should the given song be able to "show" what many other songs cant,then that song would have some use to me.

JM2¢ ~ YMMV

Bret P.
 
Zoe Keating, Into the trees, Track 6, Hello Night.
Intro is a bit tedious so jump to about 1:15. Sustained
cello draw, FLAC or..., Highlighted deficiency in a Yamaha
CA-1000, needed to replace main caps
 
justjed2 said:
Bridge Of Sighs/In This Place, Robin Trower. Just enough going on to be a good choice, and a coupla damn good songs, regardless....
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While it's a completely different song, you may also like "Bridge of Sighs" by Louise Goffin. (Carol King's daughter.) No particularly impactful bass, but a nice song nonetheless.

 
triple20 said:
I don't have a certain song I use to check bass but for overall sound quality I like to use The Temptations Papa was a Rolling Stone.
In my opinion this song has plenty of lows,mids,highs,along with excellent stereo separation and presentation.
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and Ball of Confusion
 
JoeESP9 said:
If you just want to hear a lot of deep bass get a copy of one of the Bass Mekanik Series CD's. I have V5.0. It provides all the low frequency information one could want. I'm not particularly fond of the music. However, the tracks have plenty of low bass.
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I just tried a few tracks of this (via Spotify), my goodness that is some serious BASS - you couldn't want for more, but the music itself... not so much. ;)
Christian B said:
but Sarah McLachlan's Into the Fire is one of my go to speaker test recordings. It has a nice tight bass line, sweet mids, and if speakers can reproduce all this and female vocals well they're good in my book.
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I just listened to this too, a nice track - nice bass too, not overpowering with bass just there - good track, I like it. ;)
 
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