pdasterly Posted October 15, 2015 Report Share Posted October 15, 2015 Looking for deepest bass in a movie, 5hz? Looking to dial in buttkickers this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vfor91 Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 I also like to dial my buttkickers in to a "set it and forget it" level,but I'm gonna make a few movie reccomendations rather than just one. For deepest and strongest bass transient, I reccomend the red death dragon crash scene at the end of the first How to train your dragon movie (peak centered around 2-5hz I think). Though personally I find The incredible hulk (2008) best for low bass dialing on a buttkicker lfe. During the end fight scene between the abomination and hulk there is a point where the hulk smashes a cop car in half and uses it's two subsequent fragments to pummel abomination. Shortly thereafter, the cop car gauntlets proving insufficient are discarded, and hulk commits a singularly mighty wallop on a pinned abomination. It is within this wallop/punch that a an enormous amount of lfe content (similiar to the dragon crash) is contained. Sort of like a sweep, almost. I reccomend using this scene to calibrate low frequency level instead of the dragon crash (I'm assuming your simply trying to deduce the highest level you can set the buttkicker before it bottoms on deep infrasonic bass content) as it appears to be centered around 9-10hz,though it does extend below this aswell. I reccomend it because (in my experience anyways)the significant 9-10hz content can also quite easily bottom your kicker, and by using this scene you should not have any issue with most any films that dig down into this frequency region. It will also provide headroom for a movie that has content as hot and deep as how to train your dragon. I also wanted to add some suggestions for bass above the infrasonic range. I find tron legacy quite useful in this regard. Plenty of 30hz bass scenes for calibrating a shake level you feel is appropiate to the bass you are hearing. In addition, tron legacy also has plenty of 40hz+ bass in it's daft punk soundtrack which you can use to dial in (if 40hz+ bass is your thing) for a nice thump coming from the music without too much vibrational bleed in that may cause it to be distracting. I personally have struck a fine balance in feeding my buttkicker a signal that permits it to play even into the 75hz range (not for everyone though). If you wish to proceed in calibrating this level as well, I shall merely suggest the opening scene in "the lord of the rings" (fellowship). After Sauron is defeated, a bass sweep is emitted (if memory serves me correctly it is between 75-54hz). If this sweep is just palpable, then I find (for myself atleast) that the level is sufficient on the buttkicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdasterly Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 I have my x-overs set at 50hz cutoff, will try the hulk to calibrate system. Watch pixels this weekend and my system bottomed out a few times, seems like every new movie that comes out has deeper and deeper bass. Ive been turning down amps little by little for the past month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minnjd Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Little late on the response but I think the overall winner for high intensity low bass is either the red dragon landing in HTTYD or the 'F'in Irene' scene from Black Hawk Down. Personally I think the old DTS DVD of the Haunting is a good choice for really intense ULF but that disc is hard to find these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKtheater Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Lone survivor helicopters! Much better and stronger than BHD. Careful though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan611 Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Lone survivor helicopters! Much better and stronger than BHD. Careful though. +1 Great ULF and duration of the ULF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgage Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Little late on the response but I think the overall winner for high intensity low bass is either the red dragon landing in HTTYD or the 'F'in Irene' scene from Black Hawk Down. Personally I think the old DTS DVD of the Haunting is a good choice for really intense ULF but that disc is hard to find these days. I know Black Hawk Down has often been referenced but I've never been that impressed by it. When exhibiting my Mariana 24 subs at Axpona and THE Show Newport, here are the main clips we liked and used (note that most of these are a couple years or more old) (note 2 is that I couldn't use some scenes like the John Wick sledge hammer/concrete scene due to language/violence): Airbender - Water Wall Battle LA - Gas Station Explosion Battle LA - Mothership Fight Cloverfield - Initial Explosions Cloverfield - Second set of Explosions How to Train Your Dragon - Large Dragon Crash Hulk - Fight Scene Ironman - Jericho Ironman 2 - Show Arrival Jurassic Park - T-rex Kon Tiki - First Storm Kung Fu Panda - Skadoosh Mission Impossible - Kremlin Explosion Mummy 3 - Avalanche Toy Story - Intro Transformers - Opening Base Fight Scene Transformers - Iron Hide Fight Tron - Cycles Fight War of the Worlds - Pod Scene Xmen - Move Antenna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rowan611 Posted January 22, 2016 Report Share Posted January 22, 2016 Dgage, that first storm in Kon Tiki is awesome. I also like the scene where the whale shark goes under the raft (if I'm remembering it correctly). I know there is some good bass in the whale shark scene somewhere. It's been awhile. Also, might want to review Ragnarok - amazing bass throughout the entire movie. Another good demo movie is 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgage Posted January 23, 2016 Report Share Posted January 23, 2016 I haven't watched Ragnarok but I do have it based on Data-Bass findings; guess I need to find some time to watch it. I've exhibited my subs at a few shows such as Axpona and THE Show Newport. For shows, I only have a few minutes of peoples attention so I must make the most of it. War Horse is one movie that I learned had a lot of bass from this site but in trying to find a demoable scene, I couldn't. From a bass movie stand point, War Horse was great, but from a scene stand point, I couldn't find anything that stood apart. Other movies such as Star Trek and even How to Train Your Dragon have great bass scenes but the scenes are a little too long. I found myself putting the shorter clips up front and would periodically go back to the beginning of the demo scenes. I'd usually only get to the longer scenes if a particular person stayed around longer. So in my case, I need something a little different from most. I don't have plans to attend any shows this year but if I do, I plan to add some more scenes to the mix from newer movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BD55 Posted June 2, 2016 Report Share Posted June 2, 2016 The Quicksilver scene in X-men DOFP is a fun one that dug pretty deep and isn't extremely long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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