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    Posted: 11 September 2007 at 10:46am
Hi folks,
Looking for rig test tracks so if anyone has any recomendations for different genres itd be good, perhaps we could compile the ultimate rig test cd. Smile
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Depends what you think makes a good test track, I would be much more interested to see transient response of a bass bin when driven with a complex signal and how a system deals with distortion in tracks more than low end extension which is irrelevant for most music but useful for home theatre, you wont have heard of it but I think a track by Phillip Thompson (Kiki/ILL) called Berzerkey would work quite well - its a breakbeat style, with samples from detuned metal and a nice sub bass rumble in the middle over a 16th note programmed hardcore kickdrum, I picked up his CD after hearing it in the Cyberdog clothes shop in Camden and it rules very hard.
 
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Rog had some wicked test tracks at the mid top shoot out.. really wanna get a hold of those CDs.. Rog..can you tell us the track names / artists?
 
 
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I'm gonna do a list of my fav's
this could be good for all of us to put a list up.
Rog has some goodies, but i think he could do with some more.
try Grace Jones...SLAVE TO THE RYTHM. Ccan anyone remember that opening sound ....TIIIINNNNGGGGGGGGGGG? great to test your tops.
 
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system check by ed solo + brockie

goes through all the sweeps, has 33hz, 50hz and 66hz tones, phase check then drops into some utterly disgusting drum bass - jeffrey cranked that over the 9bar stack at carnival and i think he may have loosened a few bowels . . .
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Originally posted by adambomb adambomb wrote:

Rog had some wicked test tracks at the mid top shoot out.. really wanna get a hold of those CDs.. Rog..can you tell us the track names / artists?
 
 


Seconded, 20Hz test track please!
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Originally posted by adambomb adambomb wrote:

Rog had some wicked test tracks at the mid top shoot out.. really wanna get a hold of those CDs.. Rog..can you tell us the track names / artists?
 
 
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There are a few test CD 's about one of which is the Alan Parsons CD. apart from music which we don't use, we use the guns and trains track to impress.
There is a CD made by a HI FI brand called Usher This is for checking ultimate fidelity. So, no crazy exaggerated bass on this one.
We have been playing THE SMURF for years both vinyl and cd. Excellent to show off dynamics and fidelity.
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i got a good audio setup cd form ebay. cost about £5

it has 99 tracks from 20hz to 20000, pink noise white noise, sweeps from 20 to 20,000, phase, stereo swwps the lot. i will try and find the link for you.
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One of the vocal tracks used on the Stasys is Stacey Kent - What The World Needs Now. Might be worth buying one of her albums, very nice.
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here ya go...


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Speaker-Subwoofer-Audio-Equipment-Set-Up-Test-CD_W0QQitemZ300147576707QQihZ020QQcategoryZ1504QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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well, i think this is a very subjective matter... for testing i would use (in no particular order):
 
Depeche Mode - The sinner in me (from Playing the Angel album)
Depeche Mode - Precious (from Playing the Angel album)
Jack Johnson - Breakdown (from In Between Dreams album)
Jack Johnson - The three R's (from Curious George album)
Dire Straits - Money for nothing (from Brothers in Arms album)
Peter Gabriel - In your eyes (from Real World album)
Pink Floyd - Wish you where here (from Pulse album)
Pink Floyd - Comfortably numb (from Pulse album)
Pink Floyd - Run like hell (from Pulse album)
Beck - Elevator music (from The Information album)
AC/DC - Hells Bells (from Back to Black album)
Alan Parsons - Mammagamma '04 (from A Valid Path album)
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
OST from Gladiator movie
Vangelis - Mythodea album
 
and many more... but these would be fundamental...
 
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