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Jonas' Speaker Test Songs

"Funk" should sound well balanced throughout the frequency spectrum on any set of speakers. If something is booming, tizzing or jumping out at you in the middle of the frequency range you should probably move on to another set of speakers.

The acoustic bass on "Jingle" is a sonic disaster. It was incorrectly and needlessly overprocessed with Waves R-Bass. The sound goes "wwhooompff". This should sound terrible on speakers that accurately reproduce the bottom octave. If you play this on a car stereo with hyped bass, you'll quickly understand what I'm talking about. If the monitors you're listening to don't reveal this defect be aware that bass translation may be probelmatic with that set of speakers.

The middle frequencies of a speaker will get a good workout with "Vibes/Bass". The dynamic levels of the vibraphone should vary quite a bit on this one. Be aware of speakers that flatten out or compress the dynamics in this region. Speakers that do this tend to make everything sound good even when it isn't. The bass on this song is interesting. It's extremely difficult to pick out the fundamental of the bass on the vast majority of speakers. If are able to hear these tones clearly, you have a speaker with superior bass response. Although it may be nice to be able to hear these tones, you'll have to be careful to check your mixes on other speakers whose bass isn't so magnificent.