How low do Dubstep frequencies go?

[whighzeguy]

I noticed something in my Itune preferences that had a check box saying, "filter frequencies below 10hz" and was curious as to how low Dubstep frequencies can get (generally speaking)?

[did]

I'm pretty sure you can't hear below 20.

[djake]

i would say they dnt generally go below 30Hz

[ory]

I'm pretty sure you can't hear below 20.

yes but those frequencies can still affect how the audible frequencies come across, hence the "low cut" function in some equalizers..

[.spec]

I really want someone to produce a track with a sub-15hz bassline so that at some point the drums could drop out and what you'd be left with is almost dead silence, speakers still physically going nuts and your stomach rumbling.

[altered state]

I hear an 8hz sinewave can make a whole room of dubstep producers simultaneously stroke their beards.


Even if they havnt got one.

[ratdeal]

i read somewhere that quoted mala as saying he and coki found a frequency so low it made people physically throw up

[d+]

i read somewhere that quoted mala as saying he and coki found a frequency so low it made people physically throw up

LOL

[ahier]

pretty sure rain by breakage is one of the lower notes ive heard

[bobsabarker]

i read somewhere that quoted mala as saying he and coki found a frequency so low it made people physically throw up

LOL

hahhahaha, yet another reason to love the digital mystikz crew.

[dubfama]

"The brown note is an infrasound frequency that is said to cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that a "brown note" (transmitted through sound waves in air) exists.


The story of the Brown Note, also known as the “Disco Dump,” asserts the existence of a low frequency vibration which, when reproduced at sufficient volume, resonates with the depths of the human digestive tract to cause what medical personnel call “involuntary gastrointestinal motility.” Put in less technical terms, the Brown Note reputedly precipitates a loss of sphincter control, giving rise to immediate defecation. Different versions of the myth place the frequency between 5 and 20 Hz, and recent variations claim that the effect has been produced at loud rock concerts."

haha

[apathesis]

Lots of tunes have proper 20Hz bizniz going on, doesn't get much lower than that though I think. I think very very few rigs can put out any lower.

Check the frequency analyser yo!

[setspeed]

Lots of tunes have proper 20Hz bizniz going on, doesn't get much lower than that though I think. I think very very few rigs can put out any lower.

very few rigs can get that low. most rigs are good for about F1 which is 43Hz. If you use a lower note than that in a tune then you're gonna have problems where sometimes (often) the bass just isn't reproduced, so it sounds like the tune has no sub at all!

[spire]

pretty sure rain by breakage is one of the lower notes ive heard

yes. thats probably the lowest note ive heard (or at least taken notce of) in a dubstep track. around 32 hz.

[spire]

Lots of tunes have proper 20Hz bizniz going on, doesn't get much lower than that though I think. I think very very few rigs can put out any lower.

Check the frequency analyser yo!

theyre not usually fundamental notes though, theyre usually either rumble or undertones of other sounds, yes they might be there, but if you took em out 99% of people wouldnt notice, and even that 1% would have a hard time telling.

eveyone should be issued a test tone cd just to let people know how low sub-30hz notes are.

[time]

I hear an 8hz sinewave can make a whole room of dubstep producers simultaneously stroke their beards.


Even if they havnt got one.

[dubstep_warrior]

i read somewhere that quoted mala as saying he and coki found a frequency so low it made people physically throw up

LOL only an octopus can hear it that low!

[deamonds]

pretty sure rain by breakage is one of the lower notes ive heard

defo, and that tune is some fukrey

[smithers]

we run subs that hit 27hz in groups of 4, your not gonna find many subs that will go any lower than with any real SPL other than LAB's, Void stasys X, maybe F1 infrabass with infrahorn, or something along those lines.....(read major ££££) i usually set my filters @ 32hz just to give the driver a bit of an easier time, there's not much going on down that low other than deck rumble anyway.

seems like a bit of a waste of headroom putting frequencies onto a tune when they wont be reproduced, or not in the way the producer intended anyway. there are hardly any systems capable of going that low, lots of driver flapping, but no real output.

[apathesis]

This isn't good news - I've got a tune coming out on urban scrumping where some of the notes hit 27Hz

Will they not come out over rigs?