As far as 'real', as in 'intended' notes, then clearly organ music. Prog rock is in the running too with the Moog Taurus bass pedal. Sub bass on a few Enya tracks are an unexpected surprise - sub 20Hz I believe - and very few folks who have listened to the particular tracks even know it exists, since even fewer systems can reproduce them.
This thead might be of some use to you. I analyzed 100s of tracks in different genres and show spectral content
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/everything-else/310900-spectrum-musical-genres.html
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/everything-else/310900-spectrum-musical-genres.html
Some metal and hard rock tracks have a roll of thunder in the intro, presumably some low frequencies if they're not filtered out at the recording stage. I think masters of puppets has everything below (about) 200Hz to squeeze it onto two sides of vinyl . The underground on the jam seems to rumble.
electronic (UK Steppers) dub, oldskool dubstep, drum and bass and drone are certainly contenders, just like a big pipe organ in classical music.
To test subwoofers, i always take this track, it goes lower than most speakers can go. I bring the high res digital file off course (not youtube and not vinyl)
To test subwoofers, i always take this track, it goes lower than most speakers can go. I bring the high res digital file off course (not youtube and not vinyl)
FWIW there is nothing below 48hz in that track, at least in the youtube copy.
Here are some example tracks that go (more than) a full octave below that:
https://perfectionistautosound.com/basshead-songs-put-your-subwoofer-system-to-the-test/
in the Youtube copy not, in the version i have on the 1996's cd it's going to about 31Hz (measured myself about 10 years ago) but youtube takes out a lot of the extreme low end in songs with their filters i've noticed. This is also an old track from 1994 (EP release)/1996 (LP release). Modern dub goes lower in some cases, but it's often not on youtube as 95% of that music is never posted online.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned sub woofer music.
It's actually the low rumble before the bass line that 'excites most of the house'.
It's actually the low rumble before the bass line that 'excites most of the house'.
It was worth it just for the comments. I couldn't stop thinking that he was a long way behind a violin. Possibly the only instrument you need for drone metal.
The lowest note IIRC on a full pipe organ is 16 Hz. Designed to settle the Cathedral foundations and remind the faithful of that which lies below . . . .
No, it's 8 Hz but the Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ can make 4 Hz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Hall_Auditorium_Organ
"The Diaphone-Dulzian's low-C pipe is 59 feet (18 m) in length, weighs 3,350 pounds (1,520 kg), and produces a frequency of 8 Hz,[11] a tone that is more felt than heard; the sound of the vibrating pallet is described as "a helicopter hovering over the building". The pipe stands upright for about 40 feet (12 m), the remainder is mitered (turned) towards the Right Stage chamber's grill, like an upside-down L. All pipes taller than 32 feet (9.8 m) are designed in this manner. The two lowest pipes (CCCCC and CCCCC#) are fed by a single, dedicated 8-inch diameter wind line, operating on 35 inches of pressure. A second identical wind line feeds the remaining pipes.
The Diaphone-Dulzian rank spans from C3 to g2; it is sufficiently extended so that the 64-, 32-, 16-, 8- and 4-foot unison stops, and the 42+2⁄3-foot, 21+1⁄3-foot and 10+2⁄3-foot mutation stops, may be drawn from the same rank. No other extension rank in the world spans that far. Also, when the 64-foot and 42+2⁄3-foot are combined, the resultant tone simulates a 128-foot stop, equivalent to a 4 Hz tone on low C."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boardwalk_Hall_Auditorium_Organ
"The Diaphone-Dulzian's low-C pipe is 59 feet (18 m) in length, weighs 3,350 pounds (1,520 kg), and produces a frequency of 8 Hz,[11] a tone that is more felt than heard; the sound of the vibrating pallet is described as "a helicopter hovering over the building". The pipe stands upright for about 40 feet (12 m), the remainder is mitered (turned) towards the Right Stage chamber's grill, like an upside-down L. All pipes taller than 32 feet (9.8 m) are designed in this manner. The two lowest pipes (CCCCC and CCCCC#) are fed by a single, dedicated 8-inch diameter wind line, operating on 35 inches of pressure. A second identical wind line feeds the remaining pipes.
The Diaphone-Dulzian rank spans from C3 to g2; it is sufficiently extended so that the 64-, 32-, 16-, 8- and 4-foot unison stops, and the 42+2⁄3-foot, 21+1⁄3-foot and 10+2⁄3-foot mutation stops, may be drawn from the same rank. No other extension rank in the world spans that far. Also, when the 64-foot and 42+2⁄3-foot are combined, the resultant tone simulates a 128-foot stop, equivalent to a 4 Hz tone on low C."
That 4 Hz is the beat frequency (largest common divisor) of 8 Hz and 12 Hz, but it isn't actually produced, if I understand it correctly.
I love that recording, but one needs a pretty good system to get it all. Another is the beginning of Also sprach Zarathustra, I think that one may be a 32' also.
Mike
