woofers movement

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Hi to all. Can someone explains to me why,..when playing a commercial cd through my studio monitors I can crank the s--t out off them and the woofers don't move much at all.(you know how the woofers respond to lets say the bass,..the woofers move in and out) well if I play one of my own recorded tunes through the speakers even with the volume set real low the woofers tend to move a lot more..I mean enough that they could get damaged. I played with eq and comp and still it's getting better but I still can't raise the volume as I could with a commercial cd playing. I should tell you I'm useing ds90's self powered,..vs 880ex. I was told the trick is how you use comp and eq. Something about when playing commercial cd's the woofers are in the out ward position already,..but playing the home made stuff, the woofers react differently cause your playing live instuments through the system and the sound must be processed. Well I'm not sure what this music store guy was trying to say but I've tried different things and I can't seem to figure this out. Can someone please help me out here. I've been recording for about a year now,..my music sounds okay but this woofer thing is killing me,..I think one of my woofersd are going to pop out of the box if i'm not carefull. I just don't understand what settings or what trick there is to this. Like I sdaid ..the music sounds pretty good but to much woofer movement to be able to turn up the volume like I can with the comm cd's. I almost have to stick my face into the speakers to be able to hear my tunes. Thank to who ever figures this out. Thank you to all.
 
That's a product of professional mastering. Compression and limiting (read little to no dynamic range).
 
In addition, you probably don't really have a way of hearing what's going on in the lo-low bass regions due to your monitoring system..........

The infrasonic stuff really makes woofers (damn - almost typed "wookies"! ;) ) quake......

One possibility is getting a sub in your monitoring chain (for occasional checking) that will let you hear what's going on in the extreme low end...

The other thing is make use of a lo-cut rolloff filter to remove power-robbing low-end from tracks that don't need it (rumble on a vocal track for example...)

Bruce
 
The human eye is fooled into the "movie" illusion pretty damn solid at 30 fps. If you can see the woofer moving in and out, those are some VERY low frequencies!
 
Hey Emeric, on a completely unrelated subject, I was listening to your stuff on Nowhereradio. You have some killer tunes my friend.
 
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