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djmoocha wrote:check out these badboys...


http://www.noisecontrolaudio.com/


have got to say this is the best sound system i have had the pleasure to play on/hear

built with love by people who have been in the underground music scene for years specifically to deal with the frequencies u hear in rave style music(s)

but at the end of the day you can have the best sound system in the world and if its set up wrong/engineered badly then it dont mean shit

they make amazing sounding stuff, more people need to get to know.

teknyq wrote:would love to hear it over dillinjas valve sound system

played on it few months back woz weeeighty! iration is defo the one tho. never experienced a sub like theirs yet - last iration set at subdub the sub woz so powerful i kept screamin coz the pressure was so strong i kept nearly passin out and peeps kept offering me their earpugs but i was like, nah i liiike it!!

The few Dmz's at mass in 2005-2006 after the move from third bass anniversary night when the ashtrays used to skate accross and fall off the bar and you couldn't see clearly cos the bass was vibrating your eyeballs so much.

i'd like to know what the system was that autechre used when they played at the hearn street carpark in shoreditch last year. truely amazing sound in a huge space.

Valve at custard when Shy FX dropped Skreams La Roux remix a couple of month back...

dutttyyyyyyy!

It bugs me when a system get over ramped and just ends up distorted. There is such a thing as too much bass! You feel like you'd just get merked if you went up and geeked out saying 'erm i believe this sound system is set up incorrectly'; but what can you do?

For the first 15mins at the Eclectic City show in the Custard Factory, MAH set was only coming out of half the speakers and no one in charge could tell. I guess monitors don't always give out what is heard on the floor. It was too loud to make them hear it was fucked and not loud enough to get your skank on to...

I've got a few favs, but one that has NEVER impressed me has been Valve. It just plain hurt, not in the good way as well. The sub was somewhat missing and the mids and highs straight up hurt.

Iration can be hit and miss. Yes it's spring loaded subs make you feel gooey, but it sometimes it's muddy and the clarification on the rest is drowned from the shear bass.

Mungoes, something else... the wood makes it has this warmth that you can't quite explain. A bit like, listening to MP3's through some floorstanders, then putting some vinyl through them and hearing that warmth. This is what I feel about it anyway.

Funktion1 systems... meh, aparently they had one at DMZ last weekend. I was not fucking impressed. I payed X amount of travel fares, X amount of whatever for this night. For myself to think, if this really is the Mecca of Dubstep nights. They seriously need to get some inspiration of the Iration lads, I could hear myself speak and understand my mate when I was stood next to the cabs. Piss poor.

There is plenty of smaller less known systems out in Leeds, which all pack just as much punch as any other system.

When people say, oh which is the best system. I often think, well ANY system that has good acoustics, and a good engineer, could be just as good as any of these world wide reknowned systems.

are u talking about the extra rig they bring in? or the mass speakers? the mass ones are crap.

Nah the Funktion1, I asked someone and they said it was a Funktion1, I could be mistaken like. There was some weight at the end, when N-Type was playing.... meh.

best permanently-installed system? Digital in Newcastle. HUGE Funktion 1 stacks. so so so good.

Aems wrote:best permanently-installed system? Digital in Newcastle. HUGE Funktion 1 stacks. so so so good.

i dunno, digital's system always seemed pretty muddy and shite to me

corsica studios gets my vote. perfect mix of crispness and weight

pk- wrote:

Aems wrote:best permanently-installed system? Digital in Newcastle. HUGE Funktion 1 stacks. so so so good.

i dunno, digital's system always seemed pretty muddy and shite to me

corsica studios gets my vote. perfect mix of crispness and weight

they have to be serviced quite a lot. i used to be the tech there. will never forget grandmaster flash making me walk him round the club and show him the amps and equalizers because he ws so impressed. when its just had a service, i defy any permanently installed club system to match it...

Damn if the Funktion 1 stacks arent that good I'm drooling to hear it topped!
I've heard louder but its so nice and clear.

notch wrote:Whos heard of looney bins before?? Those are supposed to wipe out pretty much any other sub system out their right now..

I believe the DIRT guys from Bristol pioneered these afew years back, but now they have something called a "Psycho Sub" which actually kicks the shit out of the Looneys so I'm told... They brought 2 of them into Native club in Bristol once for Run, and when they did the soundcheck everything fell off the shelves in the kitchen of my office upstairs!!!

Asa wrote:Mungo's.........

Whoever was at the last monster bass @ the black swan will know.......

Seconding this ^

I played the first set in the upstairs room that night and then had to go to another club. Managed to make it back right at the end of the night when Mungo's were mid way through the last set (about 4.30ish) and when I was walking past the back stack to get to the gents the bass dropped in and I literally nearly fell over I was so disorientated!

It's about more than the system though. Check the floor at Matter and Fabric. More bass in that than in plastic people alone.

Are we talking club install rig, or actual system brought into a club?

Funktion One blah- yeah its pro audio equipment, so clubs are gonna install it, its like the sound system buzzword, it CAN sound the bollocks if set up + engineered properly, but more time i've heard it sounding muddy.

Best dedicated CLUB install for Bass, The Junction in Cambridge's D&B audio setup is immense, engineered brilliiantly, sounds nice and clean. It's line array/concert system in a club, so it f**king kicks

As for systems taken into clubs and set up, first few times I heard Iration it was so good, last few times its sounded a little overdriven.
NCA gear always sounds nice, but for me, if we're talking Dubstep, Void gear all the way. Lab Horns do a dam good job on low end aswell.

DRTs psycho bins + stasys setup is huge, clean, and brutal.
Stasys 8 and Stasys X also sound great as dubstep bins. Gramps Looney bin/stasys 3 setup was one of my favs also.

more credit to on point sound engineers tho! they are just as important if not more so than the £30,000 stack in front of you.

Shamwow wrote:Check the floor at Matter and Fabric.

went to hospitality at matter couple of weeks ago...the floor is quality!

valve, iration steppas and a full funkition one rig are the best systems ive heard.

Aems wrote:best permanently-installed system? Digital in Newcastle. HUGE Funktion 1 stacks. so so so good.

This

Best System i listend to was the system in the 'Berghain' in Berlin.