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What's your test song?

Discussion in 'Audio & Video' started by slowlane, Jul 15, 2020.

  1. Jul 15, 2020 at 5:53 PM
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    slowlane

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    What song do you use to test your car audio?

    Not because its your favorite song, but only for the purposes of testing your car audio.
     
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  2. Jul 15, 2020 at 6:01 PM
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    doublethebass

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  3. Jul 15, 2020 at 6:14 PM
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    destin_meeks

    destin_meeks I used to fix people's crappy stereos

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    1) Rolling in the Deep - Adele (for vocals and clarity)
    2) Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue (for impact bass and high-volume clarity)
    3) Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili Peppers (for for higher bass notes)
    4) Disc Wars (Tron: Legacy soundtrack) - Daft Punk (for deep bass)

    You must ensure these are high-quality files, played via USB, SD card, AUX, or CD.
    Absolutely no Bluetooth, YouTube streams, or bootleg torrents your buddy gave you. Even the best audio system sounds bad when playing bad files. A good system honestly sounds worse with bad files than a bad system sounds with bad files.
     
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  4. Jul 15, 2020 at 6:58 PM
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    Here’s my list:
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    pdaddy

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  6. Jul 15, 2020 at 7:24 PM
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    I dont like electronic music but I like to use alice deejay - better off alone.
     
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  7. Jul 15, 2020 at 8:02 PM
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    suaveflooder

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    Phase by breaking Benjamin. Starts out kind of tribal, verses are singing, end is hard rock and screaming. Covers most of it for me and my style
     
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  8. Jul 16, 2020 at 5:37 AM
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    If I want to check the true quality of sound, anything off the Steely Dan Aja album.
     
  9. Jul 16, 2020 at 7:44 AM
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    rob feature

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    Joss Stone - The Chokin' Kind for vocals & imaging

    Spyro Gyra - Patterns in the rain for drums & overall instruments & staging. The whole Dreams Beyond Control album is great for SQ demos though.

    Eminem - Good Guy for deep bass demos
     
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  10. Jul 16, 2020 at 4:23 PM
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  11. Jul 17, 2020 at 9:37 AM
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmeEyVd5w8

    10 different instruments come in, one at a time, in the first 60 seconds.

    If you can hear each separately, and they stay staged throughout then things are dialed in pretty good.
     
  12. Jul 17, 2020 at 10:20 AM
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    Great stuff
     
  13. Jul 17, 2020 at 10:29 AM
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    I never knew Chicago covered this song.
     
  14. Jul 17, 2020 at 5:03 PM
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    Wow, that's a throwback.

    I've started using Juventa - Superhuman (Au5 Remix) from one of the UKF dubstep albums. Hits pretty much all the notes.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d61-DnPvgRw
     
  15. Jul 18, 2020 at 11:44 AM
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    This, they are recording engineers that happen to make music.

    one of my test tunes



    ETA Aja album song

     
  16. Jul 18, 2020 at 7:21 PM
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    Good points. Dooky in = dooky out. It's tempting to use Youtoob and whatnot, but chances are most streams are garbage.
     
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    I bang this one out on Spotify tried to listen to the rest of the album but death metal, not feeling the love
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6aS40zZP2E
    There’s so many tracks to listen too, for sound good, problem is don’t want to listen to half of them lol
    This ones good once again spotify though
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LHw6cmehRag
    Check out Eric Burdon The Black-Man’s Burdon album for staging, Nuts Seeds & Life, gun/pretty colors. Wider than the damn truck
     
  18. Jul 18, 2020 at 9:07 PM
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    So many classics up there :headbang: Big Supertramp fan here myself
     
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    YouTube streams are so compressed :anonymous:
     
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    Just to listen to the waves at the start is amazing.
     
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