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ss586 
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Posted: October 27, 2004 at 12:48 AM / IP Logged  
I need some really good SQ tracks to download for a demo CD. Various types of music. Some with really good guitar, drums, maybe some different types of percussion like bogos or something. Just need a wide variety that will sound good all around in a few of our shop vehicles. Thanks in advanced for any info and help!!!
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BONGO'S, not bogos.............................sorry.
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Might want to look at "Rusted Root"
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Production I suppose is quite a subjective opinion. I love it when you play a cd on your high quality speakers and hear things in the music you didn't know were there. You just don't get that on over produced pop music I think because mass produced pop is designed to be played on headphones and on the radio.
Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone from the 'This Fire' album. Incredible production. Prodigy - Fat of the Land album, crazy bass electronica all over the place. In fact most electronic music seems well produced because it was generated entirely in a machine, though this is subjective because a lot of people like real instruments. Nirvana's Nevermind album took months to edit and all sorts of microphones and acoustics were set up to capture it. I could go on forever, but most importantly.. if you DOWNLOAD the tracks the quality isn't going to be worth putting on a demo cd..!
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One of the most kick-ass tracks that I have ever found for setup, testing, and display is called "Pull Me Under" by a band named Dream Theatre.  It is track one on the album "Images and Words"  It combines some excellent SQ areas with some chest cavitating bas about 3:50 into it.  You will not be disappointed.  BTW if you do find it I would give my first born child to have it as an mp3, I have destroyed both of my disc copies of the album, and am having a hard time finding another at the record stores in my area.  The rest of the album rocks out pretty well as well, and the song really describes most installers I know with the chorus line"Pull Me Under, I Am Not Afraid..."

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Blue Eyeshadow by John B... Thats all you need. I promise!
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Posted: October 27, 2004 at 7:14 AM / IP Logged  
"Some Things Never Change" - Supertramp
"This Kiss" - some hot country chick - I don't remember Sound Q’ Buffs -- posted image. - nevermind the fact that I HATE country music... ususal production values not withstanding!
"Vegas" - The Crystal Method
"Kiss the Girl" from the Disney Little Mermaid Soundtrack
I have more, but it's VERY early, and I may need to hurt someone to get some coffee...
It all reminds me of something that Molière once said to Guy de Maupassant at a café in Vienna: "That's nice. You should write it down."
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Check out just about anything from this label:  http://www.naim-audio.com/  they have some good sampler cds in addition to their regular catalog.

Also anything recent from the label Verve http://www.ververecords.com (Diana Krall's records are usually quality)

I've found CDs from both of these labels to be excellently recorded.  The disc: Paganini: After A Dream is excellent. 

The Josh Groban CDs are of good quality and probably the best thing out there for demoing male vocals. 

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Posted: October 27, 2004 at 7:49 AM / IP Logged  
Besides a pleasing vocal track, I like good percussion and horns, as well as electric guitar...to demo SQ.  One CD I've been listening to over and over is Steely Dan "Two Against Nature".  Good-ranging bass guitar throughout, too.  For a demo of bass extension, though, synthesized music will go the deepest.  But won't demo the quality you want to hear out of the mids and highs.
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anytime i feel like tweaking my eq, i put in the album Siamese Dream from Smashing pumpkins.
to me, the CD has everything needed, and its really a good cd to listen to from front to back.
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