Bass Drops...

[Blu-Dog]

Originally Posted by Carlsberg19

Hi All,

I was wondering if their was an official term for a "bass drop", you get them alot in dance music, or some of you may recall the scene in The Lord Of The Rings, The Fellowship Of The Ring, at the beginning when galadriel is telling the story of how the ring came into the hands of bilbo baggins and you see the scene where they are fighting against mordor and they defeat sauron by chopping his finger off and then he just kinda implodes and then their is just this MASSIVE kind of sound wave that levels all the troops and really works your subwoofer, i love that sorta stuff! you guys know what i talking about ?

I've heard it described as "spike" (this from gearheads who use scopes to measure noise), "burst", "thump", "boom", man, you name it.

Bassheads live for it. One of the finest examples comes early in "Master And Commander", in a battle scene between two 18th Century warships. Lots of listening rooms found out about this one - but there's mixed feelings about it, because if the sub can't perform, it sounds terrible. If it just, it just blows you away.

The waterfall scene in Apocalypto is another, there's several in "Flyboys", they're all over the place. I don't know if there's a technical term.