|
Author: Fredo on August 19 2007 Viewed 3965 times. 27 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
People who enjoyed reading this: bodo, sAMsKi, mrspreston, bla, energygiant, subset, dach, bleen, Lara, Analog, hecanjog, sclr, mynameismud, GregTArtZ, Artsigreg, ignatius, astroid, reehc, Roshi, deltasleep, skab, theflame, bbwax, mlbot, DrexonField, yghartsyrt, Unknownforce
-->
Here's a cranky little blog for you all... written about the evil of sub bass.
I live next to a bar that hires two djs every night of the week to provide "entertainment" to a bunch of young folk getting drunk. Now, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with getting drunk, nor enjoying music of any kind really. But when you can feel that music as it pulses and penetrates through TWO BRICK WALLS there is something deeply wrong.
This morning I awoke at 5am. Not sure why, this has been my habit lately. Maybe I'm tense about stuff... it doesn't matter. What matters is that I found that I could feel the sub bass' annoying fat invisible finger pawing at my all over my face and body and I do not like it. I went out to see if the bar was still going... it's closed. So this sub bass monster is emminating from some other source, probably much more distant, because literally all I can perceive is the mmmw. mmmww. mwwwmmm. of the sub bass.
What is the use of sub bass anyway? In movie theaters it destroys ones experience of any nearby movies. Seriously, I saw Transformers, and even in that loud movie I was distracted by hearing some other action caper's sub bwwooom bwwoooommmmw bWWWWoMMMMMM from behind the walls of the auditorium.
Also, the amplification of sub bass in current movies and music seems completely unnatural and monstrously over-sized. Could it be compared to the jumbo-sized coke or Burger King's quadrouple-patty-with-cheese-and-bacon-and-fat monstrosities...? Yes, I actually think it could.
Maybe I am just a horrible control freak. I know I probably am. I seem to get myself into trouble with my very particular virgo traits... But I really think there should be a law about sub bass. It should not be allowed in residential areas. There should be one Sub Bass City per state surrounded by at least 50 miles all around of desert or some similar kind of lonely terrain. Perhaps it should be surrounded by nuclear plants and stinky oil refineries and such... And in each state a monorail takes you there, the long ride through the surrounding wasteland best taken at night where the dawning of the town's clownish, cotton-candy colored lights can create the most excitement. Then fools can gorge on this over-ripe, ridiculously unnatural, irritating and rude sound.
| |
Comments
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
RogerRoger
Edit's not working in blogs, I guess.
I'll put my empty Heineken bottles next to the monitors and won't settle until they rattle off the desk!
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
daswesen
It could be somethig completely different though, when I was a kid I lived on top of a bakery, and each morning at 4 I could hear the MWWW MWWW MWWW MWWW of the machines down below. Massive subbass as well.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
Fredo
yeesh! I mean Twins! hahaha.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
jdg
GET THE TWINS.
also, I LOVE SUB BASS.
i have a 22inch subwoofer i use as a pillow, pumping out 6hz of sine wave at 100dB SPL.
i couldn't sleep without it.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
rrooyyccee
hmmm
it seems like it would be able to make a subbass killer, that "listens" to subbass frequencies and then outputs and out of phase signal.
royce
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
bleen
GET THE TWINS! or get the solos on their own. both are amazing. i use the twins at one of the studios i work at and my solos are their equal with just a little less bottom octave. that's what my sub is for. 
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
Fredo
I was told the twins add mucho mid detail as well... can you confirm that?
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
bleen
the mid detail is very similar on both. you won't be disappointed with either. srsly.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
Fredo
I will get them then! yay!
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
GregTArtZ
I look at it like "hey look at me my cars got cool wheels ans a uneven sound mix aren't I cool?"
I listen to soft music driving or more then not none at all. These people have no respect for others.
The best is sitting right next to them in traffic as the crank their stereos, I'm the guy rolling up my window, lol.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
ignatius
in high school my friend had a honda civic CRX hatchback.. the little 2 seater one. he had an 18inch sub in the back but proper highs and mids everywhere too. it sounded great but if he cranked it up the port from the bass enclosure would push so much air it would blow out a lighter on those low bass notes or blow around all the crap he had hanging from his rearview mirror... it was stupid loud.
i don't have any appreciation for unbalanced systems or music that isn't mixed well but I DO LOVE THE SUB BASS and find it a big part of music.. not that i want to hear it at 3am every night while i'm trying to sleep...
when the bass mobiles roll down the road w/their license plates and mirrors rattling from all the bass i get annoyed and have never understood the bass only cars w/little or no mids or highs... but i was 16 once too.
as far as living over/next to a bar or club.. screw that.. sounds like a headache.
you should get some pastries from jdg and stuff'em in your ears. or call the city and complain like a proper old person would... there are noise laws.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
Highdropod
sub bass is our reward for putting up with the christopher cross albums of the 1980's.
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
Fredo
hahahahhahaha!
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
astroid
i love hearing cars getting their bolts rattled apart by those massive subs.
FOOOOOOOMzxzxzxzx FOOOMzxzxz FOOOOOoOMzxzxzxx
08/19/07
+
PM |
QUOTE |
PERMALINK |
REPORT
Fredo
yay, sound causes physical destruction to cars! what a beautiful world!
Register / login
|
^
EM411 is Copyright 2001-2008 EM411.com
All rights reserved. | Contact | RSS
|
