Most memorable bassline...
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Topic: Most memorable bassline...
Posted By: RealitySound
Subject: Most memorable bassline...
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 1:48am
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Most memorable basslines heard in your life. 1991 I worked the last sunsplash held in Bermuda. It was Rita Marley and others (don't remember) I was running cables under the stage when the FOH engineer decided to test out the centre subs. Holy Sh1t I thought the stage was going to come down on my head! The centre subs (which seems primitive now by todays standards) was 6 Peavey UDH subs. One (boat anchor) CS1200 on each cab. During the show the band members each had a solo, and when the bassist had his moment the centre subs was flogged somethng fierce, and the crowd in front of the stage parted to escape the pressure...Never forget it. ------------- When you gonna send me some $$ mate ? |
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Posted By: osse
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 2:20am
| Nina Kraviz spinnin vinyl at into the valley 2016 in Dalhalla/Sweden. Unfortunately I don't know what song it was but I was in front of 8 F1 221 cabs + 2 Res.5 Tops, very well tuned system, probably in the magnitude of +20-30 dB of sub compared to top, but not muddy or intrusive on the ears. There was this guy sitting in the stack and I've never seen a bigger grin when the tune came on :) Great times! |
Posted By: RealitySound
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 2:27am
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I was about 15 and was just beginning to get exposed to the sound system culture. Went to a big local 4 sound clash here. Big empty indoor parking garage. Dead tired from standing for several hours, went and sat inside a big double 18 inch AST scoop (while the other sound was playing) I dunno what was played or what banter was said, but this guy leaned on the lickshot machine all of a sudden...and I jumped out of this scoop so fast..... ------------- When you gonna send me some $$ mate ? |
Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 3:39am
+30-40 is common for any dance music event really these days! |
osse wrote:Posted By: osse
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 6:43am
Okay lets put it this way instead: Fusion festival sounded like someone was hitting a cardboard box in comparison
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Posted By: toastyghost
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 4:20pm
On the main stage? I’ve heard they need an upgrade  We sent our J3 to the Subardo tent and I’ve been told there was zero shortage of sub in that tent. |
Posted By: osse
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 7:30pm
Yes this was the main-stage, and you are absolutely right. Their res.5 stacks are offcourse amazing but the sub department leaves a lot to desire. Should have spent more time at the Subardo tend then (but techno is what I live for), I don't think I even saw it :( Such a big area! Was it your soundgear subs aswell? Would have loved to hear that system.
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Posted By: Danny A
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 8:54pm
| loved into the valley, shame it went to shit |
Posted By: godathunder
Date Posted: 22 December 2018 at 10:55pm
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when I was a little kid my dad often had his bands pa at home - including a pair of double 18s I vividly remember the bassline of riders on the storm shaking my bedroom and lulling me off to sleep many times as a 5 yr old ------------- LOUDER THAN LOUD |
Posted By: Phil B
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 4:46am
 After a whole day of awful low bit mp3 Soca the DJ dropped Michael Jackson Billy Jean off a CD. It was like the whole system came alive and most of Ladbroke Grove were with us after that...! The bassline made it.... .p. And the image doesn't want to link...sigh ------------- Mostly harmless.... except if catering is shut. Solar Sound System Shennanigans.. http://diyhifi.biz/" rel="nofollow - http://diyhifi.biz/ |
Posted By: corell
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 5:19am
We will do Subardo again next year and we plan to bring even more subs. And maybe Kyle is present aswell... ;) say hi!
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Posted By: osse
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 6:25am
Cool! Will def. do it. But first I have to win the lottery  First year for me, such a cool event, feels like everybody has heard of the mysterious festival but still it felt as if there were 90% germans there.
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Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 9:50am
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Being a mobile/wedding/hotel DJ, my stories probably seem tame compared to all these, but thought I'd share anyway. I used to have an ASS Spektra system, including the SP9 single 18's. One particular Christmas Party night the hotel came over and asked if I wouldn't mind turning the bass down a little as it was shaking glasses off the shelves in the bar for the other party in the hotel  (as I said, probably boring compared to most!) ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: Racks&Stacks
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 11:21am
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some party richie hawtin put on in detroit as an after party to a larger festival. There were 24 cerwin vega horns, which of course don't play too low, but the fact that they were in about 100 sq m room meant that my breathing was regulated by the bass. A danley bc-415 inches over my head also made for an interesting vocal experience. best bassline is probably still jamie principle's Your Love
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Posted By: 4D
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 10:16pm
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Back when this was heady stuff ------------- DMZ. "The bass was intense. Girls were literally running up to stand next to the subs" |
Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 11:23pm
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not really a bassline but one night in club zillion anwerp the dj stopped a record mid-groove. And then started to let the sl1200 resonate in the lower frequencies while planning the sound as a sort of beat, faster and faster, blinders on both sides on the same beat. The volume almost unbearable ans suddenly the dancefloor dropped 15 cm, including 800 people on it. The crowd Goes wild and the dj starts open your eyes by nalin and kane. The zillion was the superclubs of superclubs..
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Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 11:30pm
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Meanwhile, the highlight of my night last night was playing Indeep. Not really the same thing 😕
------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: Bams
Date Posted: 23 December 2018 at 11:52pm
| i feel for you.. was a wedding dj between 1997 and 2006.. sometimes you are lucky, but mostly its always the same playlist which does the trick :).. |
Posted By: RealitySound
Date Posted: 24 December 2018 at 1:50am
Is this stuff out every year? A few years ago I saw some of those in a shared lockup when I was helping Ebony Showcase take his ASS stuff off a lorry and put it back into storage. ------------- When you gonna send me some $$ mate ? |
Posted By: Phil B
Date Posted: 24 December 2018 at 3:01am
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Hi... Sadly it's not out any more. I've moved down under and the Terrahorns have moved on... The final configuration of 6 x V-Dosc and 8 Terras was about as much noise as you could get outta of that much space.. was fun doing it ! .p. ------------- Mostly harmless.... except if catering is shut. Solar Sound System Shennanigans.. http://diyhifi.biz/" rel="nofollow - http://diyhifi.biz/ |
Posted By: djgorey
Date Posted: 24 December 2018 at 7:26am
To be fair, Saturday night was great fun and I played some great music on a nice enough system. Got to practice my mixing some more and the crowd loved me (Although they would have been right not to love some of the mixes!). As you said, 99% of the time it’s the same old stuff that works, but you go to every gig hoping it’s going to be epic. July 2016 was the last epic one! The difference between my DJ-ing and a big name is I have to work out what the crowd want, whereas people go to hear what the big name is playing. The wedding gigs that are great are the ones where I can get that switch to happen and get the crowd following me, rather than me chasing numbers on the dancefloor. On Saturday, that switch happened during “A Little Respect” by Erasure and after that I could play what I liked and they’d go with me! ------------- Gaffa tape is like the force in Star Wars - there's a dark side and a light side and it holds the universe together |
Posted By: bee
Date Posted: 27 December 2018 at 10:32pm
same cabs, but owned by reggae roast. they have 8, pluss the high bass and tops. ------------- https://www.elements-audio.com |
Posted By: MattStolton
Date Posted: 28 December 2018 at 3:07pm
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I don't get out much, but way back when, when Wattco and Mykey/KidCreole were UK based, my mate Dangerous Dave took to me his secret lair (workshop) and we had a listen to single RCF loaded 18" horn. Something 1850 or looney ish, but more mental. Sadly, I was very green back then, and have no idea what it was - but my god it made my eye sight fuzzy, and the 2mx2m concrete slab that it was sitting on was visibly moving. That was fun. I did engineer a couple of events at the Statford Rex, again, way back when. Tony A.S.S. and Tarzan had been in - 21" horn loaded x 8 a side, 2x15" reflex x 8 a side, and then 2x15+HF x 8 per side. Some dozey sod left the omni-drive at FOH, so when some punter asked for a bit more bass, I parted the audience, as they couldn't breath. That was fun too! All powered of 3 x 42U racks of large Crest, IIRC, and controlled from a 40Ch Soundcraft EuroPa desk (analogue gates per channel, hi and low filters per channel, 4 band parametric, 12Aux, VCA and mute groups and matrix mixer!) One of those desks where, with a finger on fader for Ch1, you can just about reach the master section. And then there was another 16ch the other side... ------------- Matt Stolton - Technical Director (!!!) - http://www.wildingsound.co.uk" rel="nofollow - Wilding Sound Ltd "Sparkius metiretur vestra" - "Meter Your Mains" |
Posted By: Pasi
Date Posted: 29 December 2018 at 12:29pm
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Don't remember which track it was, but bass was hitting so hard, that one girl who walked past the stacks had to be taken to hospital as she got arrythmia from the subs... This was back in 92 or 93. |
Posted By: krazyneil
Date Posted: 29 December 2018 at 3:36pm
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i think my most memorable time was back in 2001 on one of my first biker rallys ,i was in a smallish marquee with a pair of apogee twin 18 subs and 2 volt loaded TEK 12's on each one ,playing some top rock tunes,thunderstruck was awesome, so was smoke on the water and some iron maiden really hit the right notes,this was on the Friday night so only about 40/50 there at the time , the marquee collapsedon me the next day lol ------------- GOD TOLD ME TO DO IT !!!!! |
Posted By: njw
Date Posted: 30 December 2018 at 12:10am
I can remember turning up at a local golf club that I used to do weddings at regularly expecting to be in the 300 capacity marquee that they had in the grounds as I usually was only to be told that that night there were only 80 guests and no marquee so I was in the function suite, I'd brought a pair of HD215's, a pair of 15+8+1 tops and a rack of C Audio XR3801's.... ...... Anyway, duty manager comes up as things are getting into the swing of things and asks if I could pull things back a bit as glasses are rattling in the bar in the other room, I willingly oblige and pull the 'DFA' knob back a bit and ask him if that's any better, he tells me it is and I don't see him for the rest of the night..... |
Posted By: njw
Date Posted: 30 December 2018 at 12:24am
I did a techno night a couple of weeks ago and one of the djs played a very well produced and good quality remix of Billie Jean that broke down to a minute or so of the original track, I had to go out front and have a listen 'cause it sounded f'kin awesome! |
Posted By: valve head777
Date Posted: 30 December 2018 at 12:48am
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I'm suprised Brixton Rec hasn't been brought up yet. Infamous incident where Jah Tubbys cracked the concrete of the swimming pool above, pouring water onto King Shiloh set. C'mon, someone tell the story! ------------- Freedom of choice, choice of freedom. |
Posted By: Rengade Project
Date Posted: 30 December 2018 at 5:14am
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For the Trinidadian members, Royal Castle carpark carnival time was one of the memorable bass that I have heard. ------------- MUSIC SWEET,www.myspace.com/renegadeproject |
Posted By: rish
Date Posted: 30 December 2018 at 5:43am
| I once stood in front of 8 EV Mtl-2 bins. Powered by a rack of crown 3600. That was insane. My eyes wobbled and thought my organs were going to pop out...lol |
Posted By: Dub Specialist Sound
Date Posted: 30 December 2018 at 11:43am
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one that stands out for me tbh to many to mention harking back to the 80s , wen Errol (King earthquake) played his 12x 24in folded horns ..serious air movement in de place, powered by 4/5 mono blocks ------------- Musical Roots Reggae Vibration is Life! for music is sound...sound is vibration...vibration is energy... and energy begets life. Therein lies my passion!...MUSIC IS LIFE... |