I’ve been thinking about this for some time and I’m wondering if I’m just a huge idiot or if anyone else knows what I mean.
I think of bass… real deep bass that is… as really more of a physical feeling rather than a sound. Granted, I understand that at some level all sound is based on a physical phenomenon. Blah, blah, blah. I’m not trying to get into that.
I’m talking especially to people that have subs in there cars. Bass seems less of a sound thing and more of a feeling thing. Does anyone know what I mean?
I know what you mean, and I think you kind of get that idea from the really low frequencies that are just within our hearing range, so you can hear them (sort of) but you can feel them through your body much more potently.
Yeah I think that’s a good way of putting it. I think our ears pick up a wider range of higher frequences, but we really only feel the vibrations from the extremely low ones…?
Extremely low frequencies (ie Sub-Bass, frequencies < 30Hz) we cant hear with our ears rather we feel them with our body, afaik this is done by the valves heart or something. Cant remember precisely.
Yeah anyone got any cool articles on why bass effects you in a different way to the rest of the spectrum?
Things like tribal drumming way back in the day must have a pretty massive link with the modern dance community through the same mechanism of deep bass
below about 20hz it’s just rumble and most recorded music has this filtered off as it just takes energy away from the mix. You cannot hear sound below 20hz, but as Midian pointed out you can feel it. Problem is to actually sense it as anything other than a slight tremble in the ground you’lld need ridiculously loud speakers, and a floor which can transmit that frequency. All in all, pretty pointless.
30-80Hz is your general DNB sub frequency.
For real, the best bass i’ve EVER heard is the pipe organ at the Royal Albert Hall, played during the planet suite. That bass is loooooooooow and Fat.
he’s right you know. It’s all about the resonating frequencies of the body.
insert brown note thread here
Anyone know what the brain exploding frequency is?
Indeed. Hence the “Granted, I understand that at some level all sound is based on a physical phenomenon.”
But especially when I’m listening to music in my car. I mean, as an extreme example, when I hear a trumpet sound, I can picture a trumpet in my head, but when I hear/feel really low bass, it’s hard to imagine what could make that kind of sound (if anyone says a synth there’s gonna be trouble for that person ).
I don’t know, it’s hard to explain, when I’m throwing tracks together and I start working on the sub-bass part I dont think “how does this sound,” because it almost doesn’t “sound” at all. I’m nuts.
REALLY want to go to the Berghain. Looks like an amazing venue.
The music will be filtered below 20hz anyhoo, so you shouldn’t get sound being produced below that by those speakers.. Check out the Rob Acid mastering video for more info about why they filter off the low end - it’s a good un…
the chamber of the heart known as the Auricle (or atrium), is very sensitive to lower frequency vibration. i dont think its referenced here but here is more info on said chamber. of course bass is shaking every part of your body, but i fond this part especially interesting as bass can often replicate the feeling of your heart fluttering like youre in love
this reminds me of a story when i was doing uhmm kinda do-everything-boy at some music festival. I was giving a hand to a sound guy (he was supposed to be one of the best in the country as i was told later) and he tells me: “It’s all in the bass, boy. Chicks dig it, and if you do it realy right, they can get a real orgasm just from the bass”. then i witnessed a sound check → just empty hall with speakers and no ppl standing in between, and i sware by my very ASS (which is precious to me) that i saw air moving and fluctuating from all that heavy basslines in front of the subs :eek:
They told me this morning that’s the diafragm who gives us this feeling of bass, of course the body is shaking 'cause of the vibrations (air & ground), but this “strange” feeling it’s coming from the diafragm who’s “moving” anything in your body.
You can get sick if you’re “feeling” (and not earing 'cause they’re freq too low for being listened by human’s ears) some very low sound, if the freq. is the same as your stomach’s resonancy freq. → this one starts “resonating” and you can guess how does it finish…
But if it’s not this exact res. freq. it’s just give you this great sensation of vibration for all over your body.
Well, that’s a pretty simple view of the story and I don’t know if anyone can follow what I’m trying to say, but when the teacher was talking and giving a lot of examlpes, it was very clear for me
i guess it really hits every soft mushy chamber youve got inside ya (your organs) and idfferent frequencies will affect different chambers accroding to the resonance of said chambers. depending also how full your chambers are, have you eaten recently?
but i think one of the first thing that will be dammaged are the eardrums. even when not able to hear the low freqs they will still recognize it. i was told by an otorhinolaryngologist (ear nose throat medic) that the low freqs are the ons that will cause a lot more damage to ur ears than the high freqs. they just hurt and aren´t that dangerous…
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Check out the Rob Acid mastering video for more info about why they filter off the low end - it’s a good un…