Candleflame
Active Member
these are all aweful songs to do a good test for various reasons.
To do a true lowend test you either have a few songs with clean smooth subbass lines which doesn't get disturbed by too many harmoncis and distortions (pretty much most drum & bass tracks or brostep tracks but before that genre got popular a lot of mix engineers used certain pop music with smooth synthezied basslines like Britney Spears - Toxic or Nsync - All I ever wanted. You get the idea.). Alternatively you can play a few 30- 100hz sine waves. Either via a synth over bluetooth or just via youtube stream - but that is a bit clinical.
I like Toxic because the bassline hits quite high (65 - 90hz) which is better to test the actual speaker cones. Below that the frequencies are usually produced by bass ports or subwoofers so can be well tested with another deeper hitting song. Have your pick from hiphop, electronic music, whatever. With hip hop I would only use old school tracks as newer tracks have heavily processed/distorted 808s so the harmonics become an issue again.
Assessment of bass + harmonics is a bit more tricky. A lot of hifi/car systems do some sort of processing which makes the harmonics stand out to compensate for the lack of lowend bass. One of the few songs which works well for that is Pur's Abenteuerland album (german rockalbum from the mid 90s). The album has lots of clean acoustic guitars with an incredibly well mixed bass with very defined lowend but also lots of harmonics on the bass. Pretty much all tracks from that album work well for this when there are no distorted guitars playing.
To do a true lowend test you either have a few songs with clean smooth subbass lines which doesn't get disturbed by too many harmoncis and distortions (pretty much most drum & bass tracks or brostep tracks but before that genre got popular a lot of mix engineers used certain pop music with smooth synthezied basslines like Britney Spears - Toxic or Nsync - All I ever wanted. You get the idea.). Alternatively you can play a few 30- 100hz sine waves. Either via a synth over bluetooth or just via youtube stream - but that is a bit clinical.
I like Toxic because the bassline hits quite high (65 - 90hz) which is better to test the actual speaker cones. Below that the frequencies are usually produced by bass ports or subwoofers so can be well tested with another deeper hitting song. Have your pick from hiphop, electronic music, whatever. With hip hop I would only use old school tracks as newer tracks have heavily processed/distorted 808s so the harmonics become an issue again.
Assessment of bass + harmonics is a bit more tricky. A lot of hifi/car systems do some sort of processing which makes the harmonics stand out to compensate for the lack of lowend bass. One of the few songs which works well for that is Pur's Abenteuerland album (german rockalbum from the mid 90s). The album has lots of clean acoustic guitars with an incredibly well mixed bass with very defined lowend but also lots of harmonics on the bass. Pretty much all tracks from that album work well for this when there are no distorted guitars playing.
