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Can confirm that ravers have known this for decades :)

I used to love crouching at a rave and feeling the super low bass. At standing height all the human meat soaks up the vibrations, at crouching height you get the full power of the bass bins snaking through everyone's legs

This makes me wonder if Muse's (the band) often bass-centric focus ends up eliciting the same response that is being discussed here.

I can also concur, sub-bass is where it is at.

If the walls aren’t shaking, you’re not having fun.

If you throw a party in the middle of a corn field and the town next over not the town the party is in has noise complaints, you're not having fun.

God bless the turbo soundsystem at the great beyond festival.

That's a logistical issue, not a sub-bass issue!

DJ Tech Tools has a great interview with the maker of the Funktion1 setups:

https://djtechtools.com/2014/04/10/funktion-ones-tony-andrew...

Great read, and happy to be a part of the "how low can you go" trend in guitars with my Agile Baritone LP style 27" scale. Sounds epic dropped lower run through a bass amp.

2nd year throwing the party they setup a nice stack of hay bales near the back of the dance floor. And then bought a double wide trailer and parked that to right of the stage, the camp site is also on that side.

Exactly. Open fields and trees are not good insulators.

Mountains my friend. That's the secret sauce for BC/Canadian bush raves :)

Best gig I’ve ever been to was Broken Dub night at the Prince of Wales in Brixton.

They brought in a massive sound system (RC1) which I spent all night in front of. The air literally felt thick to breathe.

On the EQ, there's a really tight frequency band, near the top of a kick drum, that you want to boost to get that chest-thumping feeling that really gets people into it.

the niche bass stages at EDC Vegas were seemingly more popular than the main stages lately

bassPOD and wasteLAND

I was surprised to see some genres not only have a resurgence, but be popular (and improved upon)

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