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In the Thread: The Color of Bass
Post Subject: The Color of BassPosted by Romy the Cat on: 6/7/2025
The genuinely great bass is Black. Not the 50 shades of gray, as most of you have, but black. Try to purify and cultivate within yourself this notion of absolute blackness, and you will see how far off your bass is.
A lot of music has no blackness, and most of the playbacks/rooms can't support the intense blackness. A true blackness alters time/space, allowing consciousness to arrive at the moment of an intense consumption blackness in its own unique way. To me, the time feels like it slows down, and when the blackness strikes, it feels like there is no time, no space and no matter. There is only a pressure that emanates from the depth of blackness. In a way, it feels that behind each intense sonic blackness, there is a miniature black hole.
Try this. Get Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, conducted by Günter Wand with the NDR recorded live in 1987 at Lubeck Cathedral, the second movement , the Scherzo. Turn on all reverberation channels up. Play it loud and observe how frequently those back holes form and collapse…
If the level of your bass darkness is not too deep, not too black but dark gray, and you do not experience the gravity of that deep-black singularity, then shut down your playback and switch to the collection of stamps
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