Most people start with compression, if it is really extreme you use volume automation in passages or you can isolate individual notes that are spiking and lower their gain.

Quite a few things to check.

The first thing i would advise would be to listen to your track, with all bass
EQ and Compression bypassed on a few other systems.

Is the bass still booming those particular notes?

It may be that your room has a peaking node that makes those particular notes sound loud.

If you have made certain it is the recording there are a few things that can be done.

Try a surgical EQ in conjunction with a spectrum analysis plugin to balance just the offending frequencies.

Bass can also take quite drastic compression. Spank it 12db or so with an 1176.

Hope this helps

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Is this electric guitar or acoustic? If it's acoustic, move the mic.

If it's electric and you're micing a cab, move the mic. If it's still an issue, try and isolate the cab and move the mic.

Always start at the source then move on from there. If it sounds like crap to begin with, eq and compression can only do so much.

If it's not the room, etc., and it's always the same 1 or 2 notes then very precise EQ works well. Here's Bob Katz demonstrating the technique:

Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely try more compression first. I'm pretty sure it's not the room. And hueseph, it's a bass guitar, my bad for not clarifying.

apstrong - cool video, i will look up that chart! though it looks like he might still be using windows 95 :D

Here it is on a piano:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_key_frequencies

Here's an interactive one:

http://www.independentrecording.net/irn/resources/freqchart/main_display.htm

And there's this:

http://www.har-bal.com/images/stories/frequency_chart_lg.gif

Here's software to do it if you're lazy:

http://lost-memories.com/softs/

Found all this while looking for the classic Carnegie chart, which appears only available on Katz' website for purchase. So it goes.

The interactive chart is pretty cool.

And finally, here's the Carnegie Chart. Wish it was bigger.

http://www.gcmstudio.com/imagesonly/carnegie_note.jpg

I agree with GREATMUSIC I'm a bass player and record myself quite a bit and i find using a compressor and EQ'ing the particular Freq get's rid of that.