Hello Audio gurus out there, I have read lots of reviews over various forums as you guys did. I am confused about the terms Fast bass, Attacking bass, Deep bass, thundering bass, Jaw dropping bass,punchy bass,bloated bass,muddy bass,bass guitar notes etc
Just wanted to hear from you guys what are all these mean. I got this question as I am confused on which of the above bass IEMS I need to get.I tried so many IEMs till date and still not found just the bass I am looking for.
Now all you could help me with is a link to the kind of bass you feel is of a certain type. Ex: Bass in dilse-re song from This min to this minute is XXXXX bass. This would really help noobs like me.
Bass, a completely western concept, is the most recent addition to music.
Music initially was devised as a harmonal sequence, which is a compilation of single tones. When you hum a tune, essentially you are singing the melody, which is the earliest form of music and originated (it is believed) in lullabies sung to get babies to sleep.
Harmony was the next part of music to be devised, under the aegis of the Church of England. Harmony are the parts of the music that accompany the melody. Bass is actually a part of this harmony, and only added itself to music in the 1500s. Early church music (much music was religious in nature and that which was not was made to please the rulers of the time/region) adopted bass and created the pipe organ, which is still the most formidable bass instrument known to man.
Bass is basically the subharmonic accompaniment to music. Since the earâs sensitivity to bass is much lower than other frequencies, people cannot hear much of this, just feel it. Bass is written out separately, on a separate stave (staves are those line son which music is written) to most music, as the bassline defines much of the melodic movement. Bass parts can be composed of guitars, synth bass, bass drums, and other string or wind instruments. The deepest known bass note from a man-made instrument is 16Hz from a 128-feet tall pipe organ (which is blocked now because of damage it did to the church foundation).
To truly appreciate bass you have to grasp two concepts.
Bass is music, and it is played. It moves, it has its own melody. Good bass never overhangs unless it is meant to. A good bassnote is thunder. It is loud, you can feel it, it is composed of multiple tones, and it dies out as soon as it appears, and for the few seconds it exists it creates wonder.
Bass is felt more than heard. Much of the appeal of bass is its ability to move and vibrate, and with all apologies to my headphile friends, cans can never actually do that at all. Even the bass you perceive with a pair of headphones is not the sound of the notes, but the vibration of the tympanic membrane from the air movement.
Iâm afraid linking to music etc is not my forte. But a few songs you can listen to (and in high-res on a great system only) are the drumrolls in James Taylorâs Gaia, the floor toms towards the end of the original version of Hotel California (not the stupid unplugged version), the Cannons in Tchaikovsky Overture 1812 and the stand-up bass intro to Sarah McLachlanâs âInto the fireâ. There are hundreds more, but am forgetting most of them now.
Thanks for the replies. That just fills 1% of the box.
I tried listening to lots of songs on you tube that titles Huge bass//bass test etc , but that was not the bass I am looking for. Something which i am looking is this. In Dilse re song, you get a background note through out the song along with the beats and voice. So what is that bass called.. etc.What earphones to get to get most of that .
OT, @metal I listened to both the Tf10 and Ep 630. I liked the bass on both. TF 10 has huge quantity of it along with the Treble. Any other IEM with that kind of bass in 10k range?
Iâm no Audiophile so wonât be able to recommend you IEMs but It looks like you are more interested in Synthetic bass, I would suggest messing around w/ Fruity Loops for a few days. Generally the instruments are marked (You can try the gimmicky 80âs ones too). You can try some Bass/Wind instruments and see how increasing attack etc changes the sound.
I spent tons of hours trying make Kicks with quick, deep attack for example or a snare sound which could cut through Cymbals. If you are looking to improve your vocab then messing around with instruments, synthetic sounds would be the way to go.
Thatâs a good one, Iâve played drums for 4-5 years, Floor toms never get the love.
Frankly, most people said (and rightly so) that Felder was a decent country guitarist but it kind of ended there. That album gets one thing right, and that is live chemistry. The actual music was average, except for the fantastic version of âThe Last Resortâ.
Disclaimer: I am a huge Eagles fan (I can play most of their songs), so for me the HFO album is my equivalent of a sellout. It introduced the teenagers of the time to the band, sure enough, but wasnât even close to many of their studio and live performances from their heydays.
My reference for good clean bass is âMorph the Catâ by Donald Fagen. If your setup can pass through this song without any overhang, itâll pass through almost anything else. If it sounds boomy, well you probably need a new amp or source.
I know about only two types of bass(Except bass guitar) one is Puffy Deep Bass sounds like âDugg duggâ coming out from bass drum its difficult to express in words other one is cheap âthak thakâ.For good bass u need a 12"(Freq res:20Hz-300Hz) sub with good Amp.
in dil se song its the 1st one puffy deep bass.
i donât like headphone so i canât tell about which is excellent or bad.To feel the music u got to have proper speakers set,to listen music a set of good headphones.
