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Post by Channel Audio on Jan 16, 2018 22:08:18 GMT -6
Hello all!
I'm interested in what tracks you all are using to demo speakers and familiarize yourself with a system you're about to engineer on.
I understand the idea is to use songs you are very familiar with this way you can quickly determine certain characteristics of a new system. I realize that this is not a replacement for measurement.
Here are a few tracks on my current playlist:
Fragments of Time - Daft Punk
Bad Blood - NAO
Pulp Culture - Thomas Dolby
Rainmaker - Keb' Mo'
Africa - Toto
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Do It Again - Steely Dan
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jan 16, 2018 23:10:02 GMT -6
Try Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia". The bass is a perfect benchmark, deep and not boomy at all, never interfering with the drums. Then try Lyle Lovette's "Road to Ensenada" for a benchmark A list singer's Neumann lead vocal sound. The signal chain on that one was a vintage black U67, a Telefunken C24 on the guitar and custom Massenbereg pres and converters. I use Ryan Adam's "Two" for comparing width, loudness and low end balance of a big piano, bass and kick drum.
Oh, and WELCOME TO THE FORUM !
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Post by matt@IAA on Jan 16, 2018 23:24:04 GMT -6
I always liked Rage Against the Machine - Take the Power Back
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Post by jeremygillespie on Jan 17, 2018 1:15:40 GMT -6
Ryan Adams - Save Me from Ashes and Fire
Wallflowers - One Headlight and 6th Ave Heartache
Steely Dan - Gaucho
No Doubt - Rock Steady album
Joe Henry - Reverie album
Lumineers - Cleopatra
James Taylor - Line em Up from Hourglass
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 2:30:39 GMT -6
David Crosby - Laughing
Psychopod - Friagram
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Post by ericn on Jan 17, 2018 3:35:50 GMT -6
Hello all! I'm interested in what tracks you all are using to demo speakers and familiarize yourself with a system you're about to engineer on. I understand the idea is to use songs you are very familiar with this way you can quickly determine certain characteristics of a new system. I realize that this is not a replacement for measurement. Here are a few tracks on my current playlist: Fragments of Time - Daft Punk Bad Blood - NAO Pulp Culture - Thomas Dolby Rainmaker - Keb' Mo' Africa - Toto Higher Love - Steve Winwood Dreams - Fleetwood Mac Do It Again - Steely Dan Welcome to RGO Fleetwood Mac - All of Rumors Peter Gabriel Everything, but lately Scratch My Back Finn Bros Angels Heap Chris Stapleton- Parachute Lindsey Buchingham Playing in the Rain DAFOS - the Reference recording, Mickey Hart big ass drums Sheffield Drum & Track Record dynamic torture no limiting Orconpression Papa Do Run Run Project California - think BeachBoys that might blow your speakers CrashTest Dummies And God Shuffled his Feat, aka man I spent way to much time in Lake Geneava that year😎 I hate to admit this but after Hearing it on a Pair of Infinity IRS & Soundlab electrostatics Christopher Cross Ride like the Wind |
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Post by mdmitch2 on Jan 17, 2018 10:38:29 GMT -6
Jamiroquai - Feel So Good
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Souls of Her Shoes
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Post by ericn on Jan 17, 2018 11:01:25 GMT -6
Try Mark Knopfler's "Sailing to Philadelphia". The bass is a perfect benchmark, deep and not boomy at all, never interfering with the drums. Then try Lyle Lovette's "Road to Ensenada" for a benchmark A list singer's Neumann lead vocal sound. The signal chain on that one was a vintage black U67, a Telefunken C24 on the guitar and custom Massenbereg pres and converters. I use Ryan Adam's "Two" for comparing width, loudness and low end balance of a big piano, bass and kick drum. Oh, and WELCOME TO THE FORUM ! Martin you being the Audiophile I thought you would beat me to DAFOS! If you don't know it tell MF I said you must borrow it! Oh if you a turntable is available and the weather is right Supertramp Crime of the Century Mobile fidelity The Music of Leroy Anderson Vol 1 & 2, These were the first records I stole from my father at 3 years of age, ironically any true Vinyl addict will tell you that these original Mercury Living Presance pressing are some of the most sought after, this strange journey was already in the works! |
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Post by matt@IAA on Jan 17, 2018 11:27:08 GMT -6
Oh also - for drums, Masters of Reality Sunrise on the Sufferbus album, especially She Got Me. Ginger Baker drumming.
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Post by ericn on Jan 17, 2018 12:04:23 GMT -6
Oh also - for drums, Masters of Reality Sunrise on the Sufferbus album, especially She Got Me. Ginger Baker drumming. Find the Sheffield drum & track record CD Audiophile direct to tape and disk yes, but like real tracks always fun to find out if a speaker is man enough to be called monitor! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2018 15:49:41 GMT -6
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Post by Guitar on Jan 18, 2018 10:29:33 GMT -6
I generally use whole albums
Radiohead - In Rainbows, Amnesiac
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Beck - Sea Change, and lately maybe Morning Phase
Aphex Twin - all albums
Maybe something by Queens of the STone Age for a rock reference
works for me
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Post by jimwilliams on Jan 18, 2018 12:17:26 GMT -6
I use Todd Garfinkle's MA Recordings to stress playback systems. "Further Attempts" has an opening track with complex percussion and bells. It rip's a new one on every system that tries to reproduce it.
So far only the best speakers with ribbon or AMT designs can handle it. Dome tweeters simply fall apart every time. Pop music is easy to play back compared to that acoustic stuff.
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Post by joseph on Jan 18, 2018 22:52:25 GMT -6
Ditto on Rumours
For me, I like to rock
Always
Tom Petty - Century city
Neil Young - See the Sky About to Rain and Mellow my mind
Breeders - Glorious, Sinister Foxx
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Wings - Let me roll it
AC/DC - Have a Drink on Me
The National - I Should Live in Salt
edit: Almost forgot - Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket
If they are my speakers and I'm not doing rock
Giulini - LAPO Schumann Rhenish
Karajan - 1966 Bruckner 9 or 1965 Sibelius 4
Carlos Kleiber - Weber: Der Freischütz, Wolf's Glen scene.
Klemperer - Mendelssohn: Hebrides
Maag - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Any Teldec Alban Berg Quartet
Gilels - Beethoven, Les Adieux
Celine Frisch - Rameau
Tomita/Holst - The Planets, Jupiter
NIN - Ruiner
Recently a lot of mixes I use to ground myself are a bit unbalanced, like especially PJ Harvey, Working for the Man.
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