Opens with a bass solo that explodes out of the speakers and a bunch of different instruments get a chance to come to the fore, there's a vocal harmony section later in the song, great to hear if there's good separation.
What song(s) do you play to test new speakers/headphones? -
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Opens with a bass solo that explodes out of the speakers and a bunch of different instruments get a chance to come to the fore, there's a vocal harmony section later in the song, great to hear if there's good separation.
It's not what you play, it's where you play it.
That said, 1950's HiFi culture gave us a wealth of great testing supplies.
Enoch Light's 'Persuasive Percussion' series was given out with new hifis during this time. Test records were a HUGE genre back then.
When writing songs, clever producers do shit that plays well in both earpods AND car stereos.
Example, putting an acoustic kick drum behind your 808s will help the kicks in your song report proper on both laptops and big systems.
Same for adding harmonic distortion to overly clean sounds.
Example, putting an acoustic kick drum behind your 808s will help the kicks in your song report proper on both laptops and big systems.
Same for adding harmonic distortion to overly clean sounds.
That said, 1950's HiFi culture gave us a wealth of great testing supplies.
Enoch Light's 'Persuasive Percussion' series was given out with new hifis during this time. Test records were a HUGE genre back then.
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don't do that, you're permanently killing your frequency range sensitivity
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Always this song. Use it to set my equalizers as well.
The audio file of me brutally raping @Somari1996's mother
nero's day at disneyland is what i've recently started using, just because its so loud and does a whole bunch of crazy shit. like sprig of parsley said, seven nation army's good too
conversely, i use aqua - candy man to test to make sure youtube's working. autistic song choice but its catchy enough that i generally know if something's not quite right
conversely, i use aqua - candy man to test to make sure youtube's working. autistic song choice but its catchy enough that i generally know if something's not quite right
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Go Go Go
the studio recording, on CD, obviously.
Jimmy Durante's Ballsack
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Anything from the Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 soundtrack. Industrofunk is pretty good for this, hits highs and lows well.
square pusher planetarium. pretty studio but very nice orchestra of bleeps and boops
As a former club DJ, I used to like to use this track to EQ when the sound guy wasn’t around to do it for me... simple, repetitive, with crisp production so you could easily discern the little tweaks you made.
Some music that I've lived with all my life and am intimately familiar with:
Kojiki by Kitaro
The Visit by Loreena McKennitt
Battlefields of Green by John McDermott
Secret Isles by Patrick Ball
The Time Between by Kate Price
Plus some music that has a wide variety of instrumentation (Eire: Isle of the Saints by John Doan), or has all sort of bizarre happenings all the way (Jagden und Fomen by Wolfgang Rihm)
Kojiki by Kitaro
The Visit by Loreena McKennitt
Battlefields of Green by John McDermott
Secret Isles by Patrick Ball
The Time Between by Kate Price
Plus some music that has a wide variety of instrumentation (Eire: Isle of the Saints by John Doan), or has all sort of bizarre happenings all the way (Jagden und Fomen by Wolfgang Rihm)
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