Tracking modern pop recordings with very loud bass

Can people’s Record players track it?

Too funny. You wish, hope, pray for bass like mine. 

Your mocking answer can only be interpreted to mean yours probably can’t.

I bet my bass is probably at least as good as yours and I do it with only 1 subwoofer.  Please contain your admiration......

30 years ago, the 90s. there was some good BASS heavy stuff then. Not like today but, serious bass.. I have an old Stanly Clark LP it will yank the bass out of anything. My vinyl rig reaches right down there.. The same SACD is pretty good to. I still LOVE that old LP with an MM Grato cart..
Just reaches right down there and makes my Sonys sound brittle, a harsh edge. They are good units ES777 and 9000. But Vinyl, even over RtR right now for me..

BUT I'm workin' on the RtR.. :-)

Soon enough

Regards

Here’s an example:

The Dreamer - Brad Mehldau Mark Guiliana (Mehliana) - Bing video

I have this ripped to music server at CD resolution.

IS it even available on vinyl?

Sound meter shows flat extended bass pulses at around 30 hz or so.

I have old vinyl recordings with pipe organ doing similar things but this really sets the rafters to a shakin.

Apparently it is available on vinyl:

Acoustic Sounds

Are there any new vinyl releases like this? Can people’s Record players track it? Or do the producers tone it down when mastering for vinyl.

**Of course** it can be tracked on LP! And mastering houses don’t need to hold back. Back in the old days (the 1990s) we had the ’Atma-Sphere Bass of the Year’ listing of recordings, most of which are LP:

Vangelis- Conquest of Paradise ST (original vinyl import)
Mike Oldfield - Songs of Distant Earth (original vinyl import)
Global Communications - Remotion (original vinyl import)

Mystical Experiences (vinyl import)
Symbiosis- Numinous EP (domestic vinyl)
Fields of Nephilim - Zoon (import vinyl)
Massive Attack - 100th Window (original import 3LP set 45rpm edition)
King Crimson - Islands (original domestic white label)
Steven Roach - Early Man (CD only)
Infinity Project- Mystical Experiences (original vinyl import)

BTW you may have noticed something here- a good number of these recordings are imports. The US labels were actively suppressing vinyl during most of the 1990s so the import was often the only alternative. I imported several titles for resale in this manner- if you have original vinyl of Songs of Distant Earth or the Dances With Wolves soundtrack both from the early 1990s, its likely because I imported it for resale.


In the 1990s I first heard Sarah Mclachlan and so imported her Solace LP but it sold out immediately. This was a cause of frustration (it has killer bass on it) and I mentioned this to Michael Hobson of Classic Records at a Stereophile party at CES back about 1995. Only a year later he was putting Sarah McLachlan’s music out on LP. I never thought his version of Solace had the same bass as the original though. He also produced several Peter Gabriel LPs on my suggestion. Peter Gabriel was always good about getting bass in his recordings :)


The bottom line is getting good bass on LP is no worries at all! Because for so many years digital sounded bright and because the human ear reacts to tonal balance in a particular way (brightness makes bass sound weak; too much bass makes the highs sound rolled off) If you really wanted to hear what the bass was about you had to get the LP. These days that’s not so much of a problem as digital has improved so much.