The New Master List of BASS in Movies with Frequency Charts - Page 145

Watched '21 Jump Street' for a second time -- actually like the movie quite a bit -- and must say the bass is pretty darn fun. Nothing really exceptional, but several good bangs from handguns and explosions, something around the mid to low 3.5

I agree with War Horse. Great battle scenes. Seems to be Spielberg's forte. As far as Wrath Of the Titans is concerned, watched it last night. Some good deep bass effects, but nothing overwhelming. As far as the screenplay goes, .



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Edited by mailiang - 7/8/12 at 7:31pm

Got some time to do some avg/peak graphs on some of the films discussed earlier.

First up - Project X
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Simply put - this is a fun film, and if you can replicate the 18-30Hz content, it is a couch and wall shaking good time. Basically, someone generated subharmonics to the tracks, and boosted them above the level of the fundamentals.

Next - Wrath of the Titans
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Great extension and use of most of the LFE band. Terrible movie, though.

For comparison, my all-time fav bass film - The Incredible Hulk
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I may have time to do Immortals later.

JSS

I expected a lot more from Ghost Rider in the bass department. I had it turned up a little more then usual and it was still weak. Pretty awful movie as well...

Watched Live Free or Die Hard(Dolby) it was ok in the bass department. Not really deep or loud IMO. Also there wasn't all hat much of it throughout the film. I was expecting more considering it being an action flick. Will try to give the DTS version a watch to compare.

Giving the Dolby version 3-3.5/5.

?!?! To me it's one of the most impressive bass movies and I think I've seen all of them on the 5 star list. My favorite demo scene is the machine gun shootout/apartment scene. Shakes the couch and pummels the body more than any other scene I've tried. Awesome. I do run my subs hot for that scene, but I run them hot for all scenes.

Yes, that scene was pretty good but I didn't get the strong bass that I felt from other 5 star movies throughout the rest of the film. Plus I can't base my score on one scene . Maybe the Dolby track is different form DTS track in that the DTS track puts out more bass.

Peak/Avg for Immortals:
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It delivers, down to 8-9Hz. That's all for the measurements for a while....

JSS

Just watched Immortals and it's incredible in bass!! I'm as shocked as when I was watching Underworld. Everyone, you must give Immortals a watch. Some parts had me shivering lol. Bass is heavy and low...there is also lots of it. It deffinetly needs to moved up to a 5/5 movie on the list. Movie is also a good watch.
Edited by freeyayo50 - 7/8/12 at 9:09pm

Last one: X-Men: First Class
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Delivers ULFE in spades.

JSS

maxmercy: Thank you so much for your work with the waterfallplots. Very much appriciated!

Steveo,

No prob. I like to see where most of the LFE comes from in films, and if I have to access the back of my receiver and have a day where I have other chores to do, I'll set up to measure.

Anyone know how to display a pic once attached with the new forum software? Just figured it out.

Here's the ones from yesterday, to make them easier to compare to one another.

Wrath of the Titans:


Project X:


Immortals:


X-Men: First Class


The Incredible Hulk


Next go-round will probably be when Avengers hits shelves....

JSS

If someone wants to see how flat my signal chain is, here it is, from 80-1Hz:


The stuff above 80Hz was due to a 'turn on bump' as the sweep engaged. I am not flat below 10Hz, but am only 3dB below at 6Hz, and falls off the cliff below, so take that into consideration when you see my graphs. I graph what comes out my BluRay and processed by my AVR into my sound card.

JSS

What do the green and red lines refer to?

Green is peak level, and red is average level for the whole film. By looking at this, you get an idea of the bass content for a whole film, like how low or loud it goes, in general. This graph, combined with the scene waterfalls many people post, give you a great view into the bass content in a film.

I watch films first, and if I hear/feel ULF, I give it a spin through the SpecLab software to get the graphs. Sometimes I'll do other stuff, other times I'll watch the film as it graphs, to see the content being graphed live.

Immortals, although a great bass flick, just does not have such a clean sound, in part because of how the content was mixed, with limiter circuitry applying a soft clipping to the loudest scenes. It makes the film sound louder, but that was the intended effect, and was monitored on the dub stage that way. Too bad they couldn't monitor the sub-20Hz stuff too well on the dub stage, they may have turned some of the levels down when light fixtures and ceiling tiles would have come down from the ULF barrage.....10-20Hz is at just as high a level as 20-40Hz.....

BTW, I listen at 10dB below reference due to equipment limitations. I can listen at reference, but there is too much distortion (>10%), and it is very fatiguing. Hopefully speaker upgrades will change that in the coming year....

JSS

I was thinking that maybe someone could make a list of the best LFE moments by scene, time index, chapter, etc. so we could each put together a demo BD-R.

I know we have the movies listed and divided into ratings but I'm just talking about the very best scenes without having to watch the whole movie, as some of the highly rated movies bass-wise are just gawd awful.

Can someone go through all the graphs and do this? I think it would be awesome.

Is this possible using MKV or a similar format?

Can somebody post a file for the color pallete of the waterfall?

I suggested something like this on post 4317...

Did you check post #2?

I have Live Free or Die Hard on just DVD and it is one of the best movies for bass I have, I have been saying that for a long time. Plenty of bass, Any gun fire shoot out. When the car flips in the tunnel. That entire part with the plane vs truck. When the power station explodes. Those are all pretty impressive. At least I think they are.

Any experts with suggestions?

15hz and put it a few db hot

Damn, you're right. Post #2 FTW. Is this continually updated by someone?

Getting this thread mixed up w/ "New Audio Tier Thread". How many more similar threads are out there?

I believe the "New Audio Tier Thread" is about overall audio quality, whereas this one is specifically for bass heads and ratings based on low end content alone.

Finally watched Percy Jackson.....pretty crazy bass.....definitely agree with rating.

+1, especially the Hydra scene

I know that I bought the haunting simply to show off my theater. Crazy bass in that movie. Though for me, the reference soundtrack award goes to Master and Commander. I admit that for this list it is not tops but for total package audio, it's one of my favorites.

Sherlock Holmes 2 has some nice bass.

Came here because of back to the future on the front page... wasn't on list

Should be 5 stars instead of the current 4. The overall audio is perhaps rough at points due to intended clipping as has been pointed out before, but the bass is over the top in a good way on more than one occasion in the movie.