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What does bass look like?

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 9:18 pm
by apfrod
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?

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:50 pm
by deapoh
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

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:00 am
by djrq
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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:36 am
by chef
Nice diagrams

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:46 am
by pompende
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.

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:52 am
by chef
Image

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:29 am
by apfrod
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

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:44 am
by djrq
Nice. :!:

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

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:31 am
by doomstep
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 :D

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.

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:05 am
by sheriff
i was seeing nothing but green bass on sat.

nice diagrams

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:24 am
by jera
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. :D

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:30 am
by n-type
sub looks like a warm wooly jumper!

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

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:34 am
by hamzen
A bit old skool but these two by Robert Motherwell do it for me, and hint at the meditation side of bass too

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Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:39 am
by n-type
the sheep growl 2 they dont barrrrrrrrrr

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 11:44 am
by bunzer0
nice elements here ! Good thoughts

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:15 pm
by j_j
sub bass is the key to shapeshifting ..re-alter ur physical frequencys into a showerface and morph accordigly ...

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 12:40 pm
by n-type
yer man i do a showerface on bass!

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:14 pm
by 7 below
N-TYPE wrote:yer man i do a showerface on bass!
init - dubstep's natural gurn

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:18 pm
by [b]racket
Wouldnt mind hearing some bass through this thing...60" Subwoofer...

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

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 3:41 pm
by broken silence
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.