Hi guys,

since upgrading my speakers and adding a sub I've become addicted to punchy mid bass.

I've found myself searching my collection for any music with a real snap in the mid bass, typically the drums or bass guitar.

 

Good examples include:

• most Fleetwood Mac but especially, The Chain, Sara, Gypsy, Tusk
• lots of Pink Floyd but The Wall album is a standout
• Tracy Chapman tracks like SubCity, Baby I can't Hold You, Material World
• Angus and Julia Stone Yellow Brick Road and others of theirs

I'm not too interested in low muddy bass - its the crisp attack of mid bass I've become addicted to.

 

Please suggest others.

 

cheers

Mike

 

Free: Mr Big

cheers Luc,

wow - amazing bass guitar sounds great even on Youtube - I'll seek it out

 

Mike

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Hanuman, actually you are better off grabbing a few of there albums especially 11:11. Fantastic engineering.

 

Bela Fleck - Flight of the Cosmic Hippo and Sunset Road are great tracks. The hippo one is just nuts though and might be a bit muddy for your liking but it does have big mid-bass kicks. Man I keep editing these posts as I am leaving too much out. Sinister Minister by bela fleck has some nice punch to it.

Edited July 3, 201510 yr by kelossus

Also if you want something a bit heavier

 

Danzig - She Rides

 

Also

 

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

 

I am sucker for mid-bass also

 

What speakers/sub combo do you have?

Edited July 3, 201510 yr by kelossus

K.D Lang - All you can Eat

Ray Brown - Soular Energy.

King Crimson - Book Of Saturday

Buckethead - Scetches of Spain

Frank Zappa - Twenty Small Cigars

TLC-Unpretty,

will give your "transition" on lower bass a good work out.

Edited July 3, 201510 yr by Guest

Kermit Ruffins - "Hide the Reefer"

Chis Isaak

 

https://youtu.be/abzK_jZdKFw

 

Dean Peer, was looking for Lords Tundra but this is all I could find

https://youtu.be/N_snG3gSLug

 

With some Coltrane Speakers

https://youtu.be/Q_vd9OFZNtk

 

 

Cachaito

 

 

https://youtu.be/UDUFn3jzkbI

https://youtu.be/UDUFn3jzkbI

https://youtu.be/Y665wQIg0dY

 

 

Marcus Miller

 

https://youtu.be/KxBLl6lcJig

 

https://youtu.be/1Hqy-D6LXVY

 

Dadawa

https://youtu.be/FbILvtOBFrE

Edited July 6, 201510 yr by joz

Also if you want something a bit heavier

 

Danzig - She Rides

 

Also

 

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust

 

I am sucker for mid-bass also

 

What speakers/sub combo do you have?

Hi Kelossus,

I run a pair of Acoustic Elegance TD18s from 300Hz down sitting underneath PSE144s.

My sub is a T20 tapped horn - dual 12" Rythmik running up to 60Hz

 

I run some EQ via my DEQX on the TD18s and no high pass filter, and room correction across sub and TD18s - the "in room" response is quite flat 20Hz - 200Hz (excluding a room curve).

I have a bunch of treatment also.

 

The mid bass was amazing with just the TD18s, now with the T20 sub, the bass is gob smacking and effortless.

 

cheers

Mike

Some good links there, joz, a few names that are new to me. I might have to check out Dean Peer and Marcus Miller. 

Renaud Garcia-Fons

Morph the Cat - Fagen

Anthony Jackson. (Looks like somebody recorded this on a smartphone.)

 

 

Playing his 6 string 'contrabass' here. This is from the Lee Ritenour Overtime DVD. I have a copy of this, and the bass sounds stronger on the DVD than this youtube clip.

 

 

 

 

awesome links and tips guys - even you tube sounds great

that massive octo bass thing is amazing in that reverberant room

 

cheers

Mike

Chis Isaak

 

https://youtu.be/abzK_jZdKFw

 

Dean Peer, was looking for Lords Tundra but this is all I could find

https://youtu.be/N_snG3gSLug

 

With some Coltrane Speakers

https://youtu.be/Q_vd9OFZNtk

 

 

Cachaito

 

 

https://youtu.be/UDUFn3jzkbI

https://youtu.be/UDUFn3jzkbI

https://youtu.be/Y665wQIg0dY

 

 

Marcus Miller

 

https://youtu.be/KxBLl6lcJig

 

https://youtu.be/1Hqy-D6LXVY

 

Dadawa

https://youtu.be/FbILvtOBFrE

 

Marcus Miller - wow - the way he pops that bass guitar, and add the percussion - mid bass bliss

 

cheers,

Mike

Also if you want something a bit heavier

 

Danzig - She Rides

 

 

 

+1 for Danzig. Also well produced considering it's era and how heavy Danzig's music is.

 

Sounds very fresh and crisp along with the tight 'bass'!

Any of the Nine Inch Nail albums from the Downward Spiral onwards has huge mid bass.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Hanuman, actually you are better off grabbing a few of there albums especially 11:11. Fantastic engineering.

 

great song and Live in Japan sounded great as well.  I am slowly working my way through the suggestions, lots of good stuff. 

Brad Paisley ... Whiskey lullaby

Marcus Miller - wow - the way he pops that bass guitar, and add the percussion - mid bass bliss

 

cheers,

Mike

 

https://youtu.be/n7iMw6E49tE

+1 Bella Fleck

 

Craig David - Rewind awesome low bass in the chorus,

Dire Straits - caling elvis, very heavy fuel

The Presets - Talk like that

Michael Franti - We don't mind

Maxwell - Embrya (one of my all time faves)

 

Some of my favourites I should add that Maxwell was personally responsible for blowing two sets of MB Quarts car speakers in my younger days. His urban hang suite album was also the go to cd to play in the car on date nights ;-) 

Edited August 22, 201510 yr by mpearce38