Bass as a physical feeling, not a sound

**Kaon** · 03-24-2009, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by cmcpress

Not sure that's true actually because the high frequencies are the ones that contain all the energy.

If that were true then an earthquake would make everyone deaf.

if the earthquake were shaped like a speaker cone and ossilated up and down at a constant frequency, it might make people deaf. but earthquakes generally arent like that

**Seven Deep** · 03-24-2009, 01:50 PM

There's a psychoacoustic effect that causes humans to physically perceive low frequencies as actually being "lower in space" than high frequencies. I forget the proper name for it.

Dim the lights near a good system, close your eyes and it becomes obvious. It brings the "building a house" studio mixing approach to a somewhat literal reality

**Kaon** · 03-24-2009, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Seven Deep

There's a psychoacoustic effect that causes humans to physically perceive low frequencies as actually being "lower in space" than high frequencies. I forget the proper name for it.

Dim the lights near a good system, close your eyes and it becomes obvious. It brings the "building a house" studio mixing approach to a somewhat literal reality

that sounds awesome im totally lookin into that

Jack Bastard · 03-24-2009, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Fatlimey

I love horn speakers. That's 12 "1850 Horn Speakers", each requiring 1.2KWatts of amp power! No idea what the 8 top speakers are but I bet they're around 800W-1KW also.

They're LAB horns with Turbosound Aspect 2s, afaik.

Gawdknows what the total in kilowatts is, but it sounds and feels amazing.

Did a room in a multiroom night recently and we got in some silly amounts of Noise Control, and that was pretty fucking fierce. My eyes were vibrating withing 5ft of the speakers, but it wasn't distorted or painful. We're lucky round here in that there's a lot of willy-waving that goes on between different soundsystems, leading to amplification arms races and shitloads of pro audio being available for nights.

Even our regular monthly club has four stacks of Funktion 1. I love Bristol.

**Fatlimey** · 03-24-2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Bastard

We're lucky round here in that there's a lot of willy-waving that goes on between different soundsystems, leading to amplification arms races and shitloads of pro audio being available for nights.

Now that is a possee fight I can get behind. Everybody wins!

**Rumblejazz** · 03-24-2009, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Jack Bastard

They're LAB horns with Turbosound Aspect 2s, afaik.

Gawdknows what the total in kilowatts is, but it sounds and feels amazing.

Did a room in a multiroom night recently and we got in some silly amounts of Noise Control, and that was pretty fucking fierce. My eyes were vibrating withing 5ft of the speakers, but it wasn't distorted or painful. We're lucky round here in that there's a lot of willy-waving that goes on between different soundsystems, leading to amplification arms races and shitloads of pro audio being available for nights.

Even our regular monthly club has four stacks of Funktion 1. I love Bristol.

Jack Since I moved back to bath, I havent even explored briz properly. please just tell me where to go. to hear these sound systems!:eek:

**midifidler** · 03-24-2009, 06:30 PM

I wants a system like that really bad,

Jack Bastard · 03-25-2009, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Rumblejazz

Jack Since I moved back to bath, I havent even explored briz properly. please just tell me where to go. to hear these sound systems!:eek:

Well, our regular club is called Chesters. It's run by SWAT soundsystem and specialises in underground dance music so they do all sorts of non-mainstream dance nights. They got us in to do the underground house thing, and then they have reggae, drum and bass, dubstep, hardtek, techno.

We did a gig down there last November and it sounded good, we then started doing monthlies there in February and since we last played they'd spent 2 grand on extra soundproofing which improved the sound immeasurably. We had Johnny Fiasco over from Chicago and I have never heard acid house sound so bassy.

There's another club just re-opened called Lab which has a similar sized FK1 setup to Chesters, but Bristol is really a city of soundsystems. Check out some DMT nights, Dissident nights. They've all got incredible systems.

If you're looking for something to do in Brizzle you could do worse than check out www.hijackbristol.co.uk and if you're looking for PA hire for events give me a PM, my mates who own the Noise Control kit we hired are always looking for other hire outs to do and have just got something smaller and bit more manageable (cheaper

) than the system we rented off them.