I finished my new remix, sounded OK on my monitors and in my car.

But then I listened to it at a friend who has one of these home cinema's with surround sound. There was too much bass from the Bassdrum in the subwoofers! It really didn't sound nice.

Could it be that his subwoofers were set too low (although commercial recordings didn't have that much bass on his setup) or do I have to take this into account when I'm mixing/mastering, eg. rolling off the bass at +/- 50 Hz?

Peter.

Get that bass and rrroooooolllllllllllll it off!

How can you mix what you can't hear? If you want to do it 'right', you need a subwolfer. Rolling off the lows can help, but truely, it's not the 'right' answer. Yes, I do it myself, but you're rolling off a LOT of things that should be there, like a low e on a bass guitar for example, and a lot of your low freqeuncy energy.

Devon

First of all, what host did you use (this because I need to know what tools do you have).

Make a little roll of (not a real one) with your mastering eq ( or the one you use or like more)
around 20 to 50. make it around -9dB or -12 dB, and check the track again, and see (better hear) if sound alike the other mix, then burn it (or take) to your friend's home cinema, and tell us what happen.


That's an easy solution.

There's a lot of things you can do here

I use SX2 for mixing - T-Racks for mastering.

I guess it's better to tweak this at the mixing stage (only cutting the BD) so that it doesn't affect any other low sounds.

Maybe a good excuse to get me a home cinema! More and more people have this at home and also listen to CD's though it, so I guess it's worth checking if it sounds right on these systems too.

Peter.