Third Sound Off Format Hits Mainstream
For many years I have hankered for it. I’ve even written clumsy suggestions about it but now in its second season, the format launched on http://www.streetbassers.co.uk has had it’s first mainstream gig and has gone from strength to strength.
So what is it? Well, we know about SPL or Sound Pressure Level competitions. They are a simple “whose is loudest?” thing. But as the years have gone on, the science of boom has left The Street behind. The original appeal of big audio for many was the fat bass that you could feel coming. But science decrees that in simple SPL terms, the microphones and pressure meters that measure this stuff all get hit the hardest at around 70Hz.
This is not deep, how ever impressive it is when an armoured tank with no suspension gets tailored onto the lanes and burps once to make 170dB from behind its armoured glass.
But the guy you envy is the deep throbulent Street Bass Boy and Propper Droppers is the format created by Marcos (aka Mega Heavy Bass) for these real world bass heads. They test your system at its peak frequency (you are expected to have worked this bit out yourself or you choose one) and also four low bass frequencies of 40Hz, 33Hz, 25Hz and 20Hz, which tells them how well your system plays low bass!
These scores are then averaged to give your final (((Propper Droppers))) score!
This is a savagely REAL test of deep street bass and only the baddest MoFo’s will win, not which ever scientist has the highest forehead. It’s sexy, it’s exciting and it carries the most credible bragging rights of any format yet devised.
The lovely news is that the Recent Modified Nationals show saw a Propper Droppers contest as well as the EMMA SQ and SPL competition and the dB Drag scene. What in hell will we call winning in SPL in all three formats? How about the ‘Big BadaBoom?’
If you want to get measured, it’s £9 a pop and you can go check ’em out at the Pure Carma http://www.pure-carma.co.uk/ event at Arena Essex raceway in Thurrock this very Saturday night the 6th of June and every first Saturday in the month until October. (Last M25 junction before the QEII bridge from the North and go through the services. The very next turn off from the roundabout as you exit is the way in to Arena Essex.)
They will also be at Modified Mania”> in Devon and at Trax”>. Get along and be one of the street bass elite…
