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Originally Posted by TBman
One thing I have noticed is the harshness in the first clip is almost impossible to get rid of. I have that same thing in my recordings.
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Yes, it's not an easy task but you can make a track much more listenable through subtractive eq. In other words, identifying the most offensive frequencies and, using a narrow Q, pulling them down a few db or pulling them out completely.
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Originally Posted by TBman
The bassiness of the living room recording is at least fixable.
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To my ears, it wasn't an issue of too much bass so much as it was a issue of the bass being muddy. In other words, there was less separation of the bass notes in the untreated room and they all seemed to mush into each other. That happens because in the untreated rooms, bass frequencies will build up and rumble about with no traps to tame them. Take away the rumbling by using bass traps, and the result is the bass notes will sound crisper with better articulation.