zachwhite0 said:
Hey guys im wondering if you can recommend a nice clean demo for me to use to demo speakers.
I need some very well recorded vocal demos with maybe just a few instruments in with it. Just vocals and piano or vocals and guitar would be ideal. Female and male.
On top of that just any well recorded demo music you can recommend would help. I listen to everything except country.
It is much harder than I thought to find music to demo with. Ive already used my music which im very familiar with so this is something a little different I want to try.
Thanks guys.
Well, vocals are important and you have had some excellent suggestions. I usually use Mark Knopfler or Roger Whittaker for male vocals and Diana Krall, Patricial Barber, or Angele Arsenault for female vocals. Personally, I never found guitar very helpful.
Generally, my initial auditions include five types of music:
-Full orchestra with massed upper strings (i.e., Beethoven or Mozart symphony)
-Male vocals
-Female vocals
-Mixed chorus (i.e., Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah, 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony)
-Classical piano (i.e., Beethoven sonata, Chopin, etc.)
Anything that gets through those is a pretty good speaker, and many don't make it through the first 3. It only takes a few minutes of each. You can go on from there for further auditioning. I have found Rachmaninoff's 2n Symphony can be problematic for many speakers--those long high notes in the violins in the first movement, for example.
I have found a Denon classical sampler to be helpful and convenient, because much of this can be found on one CD, but there are many others.
