Comment by mikrl
Reminds me of listening to all the OG wave dubstep on YouTube in the late 00s and not getting it, until I plugged in a bass amp I was borrowing and vibrated my walls.
Reminds me of listening to all the OG wave dubstep on YouTube in the late 00s and not getting it, until I plugged in a bass amp I was borrowing and vibrated my walls.
And even then you weren’t getting the full live experience. Some of the tracks from that time are an incredible physical experience.
Deep bass sounds in live music are just awesome, in the original sense of the word. Those big dubstep "wubs" or deep downtuned sludge metal riffs vibrate through your whole chest. Reproducing something like that at home is certainly possible, but you're going to have to piss off the neighbors to get there.
It is amazing that there are entire genres of music like space bass that rely on sub bass for the whole experience, and it's pretty much impossible to get the same experience without a good subwoofer. Good headphones can get close but lose the visceral feeling of the sub in your body.