My recordings are a bit bassy

[House]

I'm fairly new to live recording. I have GreenMachine's "basic" microphones as well as his battery module. I also have some old Sharp MD recorder. It doesn't do much apart from playback and recording in Short-Play (MD-SP).

I made a few recordings:

• Fun!Yeah! - local band in small venue
• DragonForce - Power metal band in reasonably large venue
• Stiff Little Fingers - punk band in mid-size venue

All have come out with quite a bit of bass. I haven't had a chance to put SLF and DF on my PC yet so i only have Fun!Yeah! to give you an idea of what my recordings sound like.

I can't really hear the bass when playing back on my PC through a pair of truly awful speakers, but when i listen with my Sennheiser HD 555s, it's all to obvious.

If anyone has any suggestions to how i can reduce the bass (either during recording or afterwards on the computer..) then please do help me out

Fun_Yeah____I_ll_Remap_Your_Network.mp3

[greenmachine]

Virtually any software based audio editor has a built-in equalizer (EQ), so does the free Audacity. An example how the EQ (in the menu under effects) could be set to reduce low frequencies:

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[royalrepis]

To reduce the bass during the recording you need to use a bass roll off filter or use a different polar pattern microphone. To cut the bass after the recording then you need to do what Greenmachine suggested.

[House]

Thanks for the input guys, i've had a quick go at adjusting the EQ and it seems to be a lot better. I'll take a good look at it later.

Thanks again