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Men & Women & Bass

My wife was relating to me that a friend of a friend (female)had recently "thrown-up" after going to a rock concert. I forget which one, maybe Cher, popular music anyway. I was pretty sure it was caused from that feeling in the stomach/chest area generated by bass in the 50-100hz region. In my college days I took a girl to see my friend's band who had a great PA at the time, with plenty of low-end kick. After a short while I had to take her home, because she said the drum kick bass was making her queasy.
So, I am just wondering if other people have insight to this phenomenom? I know I have not encountered any females that are into subs and woofers in general. But than again, I never run across any females that even have any interest in high-end, but I live in a small city, and don't get out much either. Why is it that men seem to love that "effect"
that T-Rex type bass seems to provide? Is it sexual, mental, neither? I have also heard that low enough bass can also be used as a type of weapon, bursting you from the inside out.
pelv
paulraphael
13 posts
 
A friend and fellow bass player discovered some old army research on how sub-bass (i think in the 8 hz region) could rattle a human's internal organs and at a certain level incapacitate them. aparently they abandoned the project when they realized how much power it would take .. it got impractical.

Anyway, my friend become obsessed with the project and made it his goal to put together a bass and stage amp that could put out thousands of wats at 8hz and earn him the ultimate in visceral audience reactions: a whole room full of fans puking after his solo.

I'm not sure how far he got with the project.

Paul
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
If you only play bass as well as I unfortunately do, there are easier ways of making a room full of 'fans' puke after your solo. But then again, any kind of purported 'rock' music that would even feature bass solos at all would likely be puke-inducing to my own sensibilities ("My Generation" excepted).

(BTW, does anybody think there is a grosser thread than this in all of the archives? :-)
tireguy
1,964 posts
 
Zaikesman- well now that you mention it there was one thread were my fondness of ported speakers came up(no pun intendid), if you follow me ;) gosh yur speakers are purty.
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Aha! So Judit was wrong! It's not all about a feeling of power!
It's about...um...uh...a feeling of something else...
...um, never mind. ;^)
judit
217 posts
 
Well Zaikesman, at least you didn't call me a vocodor-abusing sequin-hoarding geriatric mannequin.
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