Favorite PA Demo Songs?

[Simon Barz]

Hello all, and happy holidays!

I'm interested in what tracks you all are using to demo PA systems and familiarize yourself with a system you're about to engineer on.

I understand the idea is to use songs you are very familiar with this way you can quickly determine certain characteristics of a new system. I realize that this is not a replacement for measurement.

Here are a few tracks on my current playlist:

Fragments of Time - Daft Punk
Bad Blood - NAO
Pulp Culture - Thomas Dolby
Rainmaker - Keb' Mo'
Africa - Toto
Higher Love - Steve Winwood
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
Do It Again - Steely Dan

 

[Helge A. Bentsen]

https://tidal.com/playlist/05156f30-71aa-428e-885a-541a0851fb16

 

[Klaus Zimmermann]

(m)any well mixed song(s) NOT in mp3 format :roll:

 

[Helge A. Bentsen]

They could be MP3 IF they work for you.

But I highly suggest higher resolution if you have customers present when demoing the system(likely).

Tidal HIFI is IMHO the same as a cd. I can't tell the difference fro ma CD to Tidal in my living room. This could of course be down to me not knowing what to listen for, in that case I'm all ears if someone can pinpoint the difference

I had the same impression of Spotify untill I tried Tidal HIFI. Big difference.

 

[Mike Monte]

Page One by Tower of Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB5tmptwhu8
I use the original CD. The tune has good drum kit sound (including HiHat) with a good representation of bass, vocals, horns, and guitar.
...oh...and I am a huge TOP fan...

 

[Klaus Zimmermann]

there's also a similar thread in a differnet formum - i hope it's okay posting the link:
forums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/topic,161566.0.html
if not, please delete!

 

[Randy Gartner]

Rossana by Toto and I Can dream About You by Dan Hartman

 

[Tim McCulloch]

Same poster with his real name, Klaus.

 

[David Morison]

Same poster with his real name, Klaus.

Yup, mods here just haven't got round to locking the thread till he sorts his screen name, though it's been reported a few times already.