is it called Franksters and Dippers??
Great thread!
The bass in Autechre’s Oslo show last fall went into skull-vibrating territory. What frequencies are those?
It felt nice 
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higher than the sun … i think its jah wobble ?
bug powder dug - doug wimbush?
lfo - lfo
100 hz - low frequency overload
and lots of bleep and bass stuff from 90’s , unique 3 etc etc.
this cropped up in my search - never seen it before.
and finally - one of my fave william orbit mixes (killer is also very good). the bassline is great and i love the dubby chopped vocals.
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this one just came out a few weeks ago, but hearing it this weekend on a proper system (w/ 2 18” keystone subs and a 30” sub) was fucking insane
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Autechre, Hearn street car park. 2008.
End of set sub ear cleaner.
Started in the abdomen and worked it’s way upwards, ended up in my neck rattling my jowls.
No other bass frequencies have done that to me except some dub systems.
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Probably when I saw Sunn0))) live in 2008 at the old Knitting Factory. Also the only time I’ve seen slow-motion moshing lol
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Sunn O))) with Atilla Csiar in tow.
Saw them when they toured for Monoliths & Dimensions and to this day it remains the best show I’ve ever been to.
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You’re not kidding about Black Dice. In 2017 they opened for Animal Collective at the Empty Bottle here in Chicago, which is pretty small, but they were up there with their amp stacks blowing the room out. I had made the mistake of showing up hungover, but all of the sudden I’m chugging beers and doing shots so that I don’t get the bends coming up for air.
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Was going to say, “Poison Dart” has got to be up there!
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Whole album, really.
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I used to go to the Twilight Zone in Toronto in the early 80’s
It was a legendary underground dance club with the most insane sound system available in the world at the time.
It would open at midnight, no booze… just a big black room and these towering custom built speakers that made the air feel like thick soup. I remember feeling my clothes vibrate with the powerful sub bass sounds.
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Mogwai and Neurosis
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i went to an Excision show back in 2011 or something where his big draw for the tour was 100k watts of bass. it hurt, you absolutely could not breathe anywhere in the venue. the ceiling started to break too. i think i heard of other damage to the venue after the fact
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Chris’s Chili Dogs in Pioneer Square.
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I gotta check it out!
My contribution was walking by Neumos ~2008 or so, a side door opened and once the opening sub-bass to The Bug - Poison Dart kicked on, the pressure levels absolutely melted my face off
I sadly didn’t have tickets but did enjoy that!
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Ian Pooley‘s remix of Jovonn‘s Pianos of Gold played on the Open Ground sound system blew me away.
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sine sweeps 
every now and then Im hired for big venues where you find the real deal. large GSL arrays from d&b Audiotechnik and their 3*21" SL-subs, 20 or 30 of them, LAcoustics K1 + lots of cardioid stacks of KS28…from nightwish to zucchero, Ive been to a lot of soundchecks and Id say the FOH guys listen to what they like as there is no NEED to check if things work, software, solid engineering and a mic (most of the times Haun MBC or something alike) do the trick.
this:
can be a lot of fun when there are 300 kilowatts of amping.
I cant remember exactly, but that nice low bass should be around 38-40 Hz.
when I check my own venues, theres spotify and the stuff I know, nothing in particular. I use a sine generator sometimes, you can create a bassline as heavy as you wish with it 
I know exactly what makes a “Druckkammer” a “Druckkammer” but what youre saying confuses me, care to elaborate? I cant imagine a scenario without reflections, I kind of cant make sense of what youre saying.
im just honestly curious as Ive been into acoustics and audio metrology for two decades auch gern per DM
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A couple of standouts for me, which I guess also show that defining heavy is also about context. Keith Hudson’s “Hunting”, which opens “Flesh of my Skin, Blood of my Blood” always feels absolutely skullcrushing to me:
Although not strictly a bass line, same goes for This Heat’s “Horizontal Hold”, as it emerges out of the previous track “Test Card”:
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oh yeah exactly the one I’m going to post. I use it to train my monitors on the third last of the hours it needs.
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