How do i stop my kick from rattling the car speakers?

[Kinglazy]

I had the same problem with my drums. It sounded good on it's own but when mixd together with the bass and the rest of the sounds and mastered, caused too much low end and car speaker rattling.
Using a good EQ on the drum track channel, and sweeping through the low end frequency range I finally found the offending frequency that had too much sonic signal and lowered it with a narrow band with the EQ so as not to remove the other low frequencies
(in fact it was the 90hz range that was causing it. Don't do this on the master channel as this will remove the frequency for the whole song, which you don't want. Using surgical eqing on the root of the problem, in this case your drum kick).

Check your bass as well with the same process to see if there's any offending frequencies.

A neat trick I'm using now is checking my sounds with my ipod earphones which don't handle low end frequencies well.

I resolved my problem with this technique and when finally mastered, sounds just as good without the rattling.

Hope this helps!!

 

[owendolmer]

Also, make sure you're in a position where you can hear most of the spectrum clearly. Do you have a subwoofer? Or are you trying to mix with cones that don't reach that low in the spectrum. You can get decent results without top of the line monitoring chains and setups as long as you have decent monitors/subs and YOU KNOW THEM. You need to know how they sound in relation to other speakers. Every cone has different characteristics. My advice is to run a professional mix containing a rich submix, through your monitoring chain.
I'm assuming you're Eq'ing and Compressing your basses right?
I saw earlier someone suggested to cut. Only do that if you want to eliminate your subharmonics. "Reduce" like Massive Mastering said.
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