If you’ve invested in a serious sound system and theater seats with bass shakers, you should probably take advantage. Bass shaker seats immerse you in the movie-watching experience, not to mention adding to the ubiquitous stomach flip at jump scares. But to best take advantage of those big base blowouts in climactic movie scenes, sci-fi thrillers are where it’s at. And a great one is the 2018 sci-fi thriller, A Quiet Place. But first, let’s take a look at what bass shakers are and how entertainment room seating equipped with bass shakers can transform your movie-watching experience.
What Are Bass Shakers?
Since we’ve talked about bass shakers before, we’ll give you a quick refresher. Bass shakers – also referred to as tactile transducers – are small pieces of technology that pack a huge punch. Bass theater seating completely transforms the experience of watching a movie. They increase immersion by pushing vibrations through home theater recliners. This only happens during on-screen moments that are packed with high levels of bass. Think explosions, intense action scenes, and in the case of A Quiet Place, any startling noise, really.
Theater room chairs with bass shakers deliver the most immersive experience you’ll find for your home theater. They make it feel like you are part of the action. You become fully engrossed in the movie or show. Instead of low-frequency soundtracks, you actually feel these vibrations throughout your body.
Bass shakers mount onto multimedia room seating with ease. The puck-shaped devices attach to the side or back of the seat. If the vibrations are too intense to handle, they can be easily adjusted to match individual preferences. Multimedia room recliners with included bass shakers help you get the most out of your home theater setup.
What’s ‘A Quiet Place’ About?
“A Quiet Place” tells the story of a family’s struggle to survive in a world where super-predator aliens who are attracted to sound have obliterated civilization. Of the three children, one is deaf. They have to perpetually find sustenance and medicine, but they can’t make a sound, lest they be taken (read: killed) by an alien. Sand paths and ASL help them quietly travel and communicate.
As a result, this movie has almost no dialogue; the score is the star of this film. And a big part of that is when it utilizes bass fries, you can feel in your chest, even without bass theater seats. Here are our five favorite bass-heavy moments in “A Quiet Place”:
Warning: Spoilers
Best Bass-Heavy Moments in the Movie
5. (19:22) The kids knock over a lantern while playing a board game. The moment the glass breaks is the first loud sound since their little brother was taken.
4. (47:54) When the father sends his son off to light the emergency rocket, the camera and score follow him on his sprint through the corn field. The bass is written in as a panicked heartbeat.
3. (1:06:35) Little brother falls into the corn silo, and so do his sister and an alien. The bass here starts out subtle and crescendos as the scene becomes more and more frantic.
2. (44:58) Was any moment more visceral than when the mom, waddling down the basement stairs whilst in labor, steps right on that exposed nail?
1. (54:50) The score for this part of the cornfield scene is flawless: panicked, desperate, suspense-filled, and full of bass fries.
One of the best movies for bass-lovers, “A Quiet Place” is best enjoyed in a home theater stacked with a great audiovisual system and theater seats with built-in bass.