[Don't lough] I've done all my beats without a sub-woofer. Turns out - they're all bass-distorted..

[The Else]

Hi, I've been doing my beats for ages and I never worried about doing some over-the-top, vibro-massage-car-stereo type of sh*t cause that's what sub-woofers only was for I thought (silly me) but recently I learned that all the frequencies gotta be in balance because when a good sound system (ie an amplifier with 6 speakers and a sub-woofer) plays the song, it outputs non-compressed sound and if there's too many frequencies tryina get out at the same time - the speakers f*ck up from the distortion and clipping...I was told that I can't put my music anywhere for any kind of distribution, promotion or submission when it's un-mastered so much, it can break stereos so I've learned quite a good bit on this subject in the last couple of weeks, I more-or-less largely understand the concept of it now and I already ordered mid-range studio monitors to guide me from now on.

Now, my biggest problem now is that I can't go back and change the beats I already made since I've been moving around with different computers, operating systems etc and don't got the original "project files" (.flp) but those babies sound oh-so-good on the regular non-woofer/low-bass audio/old'ish audio systems and there's no way I can re-construct them or move on and give up on them beats (they're 160 Kbps mp3 files btw)...So I'm looking ways to maybe (if possible)... "restore", fix or smooth'en them beats...as good as it possible (if possible). I happen to over-hear about this VST/software called iZotope RX 2 and I haven't heard or came across any other progs that would remotely be of this purpose...Maybe it's for something else and I'm not looking in the right area but if I am I'd like to know if it's any good or maybe there's other software or other way(s) that could maybe-even-partially repair my ish? Even a small bit would be something to start from: I was also thinking maybe there's a way to render the sound the way it sounds on the cheap speakers (compressed) and just tie-it-up and sew it as it is so that it wouldn't have its harmful full spectrum of all them fancy frequencies to spread out and wiggle around with, if you know what I mean...Any sort of info, a suggestion or anything would be greatly appreciated, thanks to all in advance; looking forward to participate on this site's forums, thanks again....

 

[Fade]

Actually that's a good question. Everyone always talks about mixing this and that but if it's already mixed, how do you control files that are distorted?

It really depends on how bad it is, but I don't think there's anything you can really do, except maybe try to use compression to soften it up a bit. But let's say your kick is really booming, it's hard to do anything since it's already mixed and done.

Let's see what @thedreampolice has to say....

 

[thedreampolice]

wow, yea man its a mess. Izoto RX would be a place to start but honestly if it was me I would probably redo the beat. I mean are these songs you want to license and get to artists? You only have one chance to make a good impression, so put in the work to get things done right. That being said I would really need to look at the wave form of the track to see where the problems lie and maybe do some restoration work. So post it if you can and then maybe we can give some better advice.

 

[2GooD Productions]

I agree with DP, it is a fucked up situation.

You might just have to cut your losses and make it a lesson well learned. Working from 160kbps MP3's just aint gonna cut it IMO.
For a mixed copy(not mastered, just the main copy) should be at least a WAV file.
ALWAYS KEEP THE SOURCE FILES!!! You never know when you might need to revisit a track.
To have a track mixed professionally requires every instrument to be tracked out to its own split(left/right) WAV files.
Without the original source file that could be impossible.

Once again, I just say call it a time expensive lesson well learned.