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There is a car in my neighborhood driven by a tenager. A bumper sticker on the back says:
"The music's not loud. You are old."
Now, although the volume is "cranked up" it is not the loudness of the music ... it is the bass vibration, along with bass beat, that hits me in the head and stomach like a sledgehammer.
The teens tell me they like the way the deep bass and beat make their insides vibrate! It gives me a headache.
There's a word for that combination of beat and intensity but I cannot remember it ... timbre keeps popping into my head but that isn't quite it!
HELP!
wow
P.S. Must say that when I told them the effect the loud beat had on me, the teens turned off the radio and do so whenever they are visiting their compatriots next door. Good kids!
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[greenthere's a word for that combination of beat and intensity but I cannot remember it ... timbre keeps popping into my head but that isn't quite it!--its likely at least partially true.
"low bass rumble"?
As to the bumper stick ("the music isn't loud, you are old") you might respond with another "the music isn't moderate, you are deaf"
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I have read that a lot of kids significantly damage their hearing by playing music much too loud, particularly with some of the portable types that have earphones. Kids today really do have "too much too soon."
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In the sixties Hi-Fi's (High Fidelity for you's young'ins) had a "rumble" knob which controlled different parts of the lower(HZ)frequencies (depending on manufacturer). If I remember correctly, it wasn't a cut in low frequencies, it was a built in low frequency amplifier that gave you an extra boost, which "sympathetically" made your speakers rumble (and blew them out if you weren't careful). OSHA has very specific rules for repetitive exposure to loud sounds for that very reason. An 8 hour average exposure to more than 85db will require ear plug use. I used my db meter to test something for us to compare that we may all understand, and I came up with 86 db standing right next to my home forced air furnace. I'll bet they peak somwhere close to the threshold of pain (120db)... but then again, I've heard pleasure described that way often enough...  WOW - I use an arrangers term, used to desribe a lot of emphasis on a single frequency, or a lot of instruments playing the same note... "weight".
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Wow - I'm not sure what the musical term may be, but youngsters here refer to that sound as "doof".
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youngsters here refer to that sound as "doof".
Interesting ... but haven't heard it at this end of the world.
Musick? Any thoughts? Have you heard the term "doof?"
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tssika - tssika - tssika - tssika - tssika - tssika.... oo........aaaah........oo........aaaah........oo.... Doof - Doof - Doof - Doof - Doof - Doof - Doof - Doof.... --------------------------------------------------------- I've made that exact sound with (with my voice) to replace the unavailable electronic "bass drum" sound, and it works! Much less expensive than the equipment. I haven't heard it used as a term to describe the sound, but it is beyond onomatopoetic for me... it is precisely the sound - no imitation there! 
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Dear wow,
When I am in a particularly good mood and alone in my car,
I (yeah I know, I'm not a teenager any more) still love to
crank up The Backstreet Boys with full bass, as loud as I can stand it, and try to outsing them, and the best word I can think of for the bass good vibrations is throb.
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What's the musical term for being on stage with a 200-watt Marshall amplifier driving two quad boxes behind you and having one of the speakers in a quad box blow the magnet out between your legs? Happened to me fifteen years ago or so. "Doof" probably does it.  It certainly weakened my knees a little!
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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blow the magnet out between your legs CK has a magnet between his legs? Explains why all the girls on this board are attracted to him. But I don't think I will explore this phraseology any further!  rod
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