What does bass look like?

apfrod · Post by **apfrod** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:18 pm

Hiya dubsteppers!

For those meditating on bass weight...

I don't just mean waveforms and such, but what does bass look like? How does it travel? What shape is it in the air? Waveforms are just graphs after all.

It's like there's a lot more language and images around melodies, rhythms and instruments, but bass in dubstep is so abstract and unreal.

Any visions of bass that you have? Images or feelings that come to mind when dancing, nodding, humming, driving to or making big subbass?

deapoh · Post by **deapoh** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:50 pm

Bass for me is a big movement, it's a distortion and things are blurry!

Ok I give up trying to explain it, there are too many emotions envolved aswell

djrq · Post by **djrq** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:00 am

chef · Post by **chef** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:36 am

Nice diagrams

pompende · Post by **pompende** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:46 am

standard three dimensional calculus bizness. seen. makes man want to break out the ti-89. and hell, im going to, ive got optics equations to integrate.

chef · Post by **chef** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:52 am

apfrod · Post by **apfrod** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:29 am

YES! heavy diagram indeed. It makes me think of water and fluids and stuff. I think of bass as huge solid objects of some kind, I can't get over the idea that bass is cones moving air, and how big they are:

Calculation of the wavelength of an acoustic wave in air when frequency and temperature is known
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-waves.htm

djrq · Post by **djrq** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:44 am

apfrod wrote:http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-waves.htm

Nice.

those diagrams aer just what bass conjures up in my mind...i think they are full maths bizz.

doomstep · Post by **doomstep** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:31 am

Deapoh wrote:Bass for me is a big movement, it's a distortion and things are blurry!

yeah man when its right bass should cause actual visual distortions, I love that feeling when ya eyeballs feel like they might pop out & somones squezzing ya head in a vice

to me bass, esp Sub, reminds me of a time when we shared this planet with big big animals, only somthing HUGE can generate that sorta rumble, bass music is like the soundtrack to hunting mammoth innit.

sheriff · Post by **sheriff** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:05 am

i was seeing nothing but green bass on sat.

nice diagrams

jera · Post by **jera** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:24 am

i see bass a big smack on the chest and 2 hands rappin round your throat...love that feelin where you find it hard 2 breathe because of the bass.lovely.

n-type · Post by **n-type** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:30 am

sub looks like a warm wooly jumper!

and filtered sub bass looks like a massive stampede of furry goats! i ment sheep

hamzen · Post by **hamzen** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:34 am

A bit old skool but these two by Robert Motherwell do it for me, and hint at the meditation side of bass too

n-type · Post by **n-type** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:39 am

the sheep growl 2 they dont barrrrrrrrrr

bunzer0 · Post by **bunzer0** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:44 am

nice elements here ! Good thoughts

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:15 pm

sub bass is the key to shapeshifting ..re-alter ur physical frequencys into a showerface and morph accordigly ...

n-type · Post by **n-type** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:40 pm

yer man i do a showerface on bass!

7 below · Post by **7 below** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:14 pm

N-TYPE wrote:yer man i do a showerface on bass!

init - dubstep's natural gurn

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:18 pm

Wouldnt mind hearing some bass through this thing...60" Subwoofer...

http://www.digitalgrabber.com/audio/the ... oofer.html

broken silence · Post by **broken silence** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:41 pm

Now thats in flavour country.
Experienced the jah shaka soundsystem in brixton many moons ago, and the sub woofers he used made me and most every other male in the dancehall suddenly very concious of size. HEAVY.

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