Topic: Help EQing recent recording

[ScotK]

I made some outdoor concert recordings last night with an entire set of new gear (to me, at least):
CA11-omnis -> CA9100 pre-amp ->R-09

The recordings came out pretty realistic, so I'm happy with that, but the bass is too loud!
(The music was mostly island style reggae and the bass was loud to begin with.)  I didn't
use the CA-9100 bass rolloff 'cause I figured I could do it in software later.
Unfortunately, the speakers on my computer are crappy enough that I can't use them to tell
me how I'm doing in EQing out the bass.  I'm using the audacity (linux) EQ feature and making
up my own curves.  The only way I can hear the results of my work are to process, write to CD,
then play in the stereo.  So, I'm looking for a few cheats to get me on the right track sooner.

Any generic advice on where to start my roll-off and roughly how quick to go?

thanks,
scot

[Əkoostikal]

instead of using the EQ curve in audacity you may want to try the HighPass filter...... it will roll off anything below your set freq. 80hz is a good start point FWIW

[ScotK]

Thanks.  I thought of that, but figured I wanted some low frequencies.  The filter is a roll-off and not a cut-off?
80Hz? I was thinking it would be significantly higher. 

scot

[Dede2002]

Thanks.  I thought of that, but figured I wanted some low frequencies.  The filter is a roll-off and not a cut-off?
80Hz? I was thinking it would be significantly higher. 

scot

Hi

In situations like that, I usually start with a 60Hz (-6 db) roll-off, check the results and increase the frequency roll-off if necessary: 70, 80 and so on.

[ScotK]

Thanks, Dede.

In what little experimenting I've done so far, I also figured out I should normalize the recording AFTER the bass roll-off since that
frees up some previously-used dbs!

scot

[Dede2002]

Thanks, Dede.

In what little experimenting I've done so far, I also figured out I should normalize the recording AFTER the bass roll-off since that
frees up some previously-used dbs!

scot

Yes, Normalize should be the last step if you decide to use use it. I always do.