Question: Is there any way to resolve muddy bass?

So heres the scoop. I have a track that I spent about 8 hours mastering in ableton, exported it from live, and the next day the .als file was accidentally deleted. I did it on headphones (im still a noob) and just realized now (since I am in back in my apartment away at college where ma subz are) that i have the case of the muddy bass. I still have the .wav file, is there any way I can resolve this without starting fresh and not having the track sounding like total garbage?

Heres the track:

http://soundcloud.com/reverbrock/reverb-rock-lovetronic

I only really hear it once I go past the halfway mark on my volume through my subz

Thanks !

-REverb Rock

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If all you have is that one composite .wav I doubt you'll be able to do much. However, if you have the multi-track wavs you could EQ the bass channel or something. IDK, I didn't listen to the track.

  On 1/19/2012 at 8:32 PM, hautlle said:

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Yeah, you want EKT General Discussion for gear related discussions/questions.

Try some EQ on the master track - a HPF at around 30Hz to get rid of rumble, and a low-frequency shelving band to tame the bass. Your track seemed a bit overcompressed on my speakers, IMO.

  On 1/19/2012 at 8:53 PM, kokeboka said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 8:32 PM, hautlle said:

This area is only for buying./selling gear. You won't get many, if any replies in here.

 

Yeah, you want EKT General Discussion for gear related discussions/questions.

 

Try some EQ on the master track - a HPF at around 30Hz to get rid of rumble, and a low-frequency shelving band to tame the bass. Your track seemed a bit overcompressed on my speakers, IMO.

Thank you guys! im new here so thanks for the heads up on the wrong thread. This was my first attempt at mastering so im just starting to get the hang of it lol, I'm going to take your advice and let you know how it goes.

Thanks a million!

make it mono if it's not

just claim it's meant to sound like that

Maybe the over compression could cause the stuff below 30hz to distort the track but, unless you have a pretty amazing subwoofer... stuff below 30hz is mostly inaudible and shouldn't be what's causing your bass to sound muddy. Ovbiously you can fix these problems best in mixing before mastering but...

Go back to before you applied any mastering compression and put in a graphic EQ and test out how eqing the low end first in your chain affects how the compression is treating your bass. A lot of times muddy bass in bad mixes comes from 125hz - 250hz.

EQ at around 300hz for muddiness, filter out < 100hz on non-bass tracks. Even hihats have some low frequencies that may clutter the audio spectrum you can safely cut off. On my system your track sounds a bit thin, maybe you cut off blow 100hz frequencies in the effort to reduce muddiness?