Yup. Just like Real Estate it's LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION. Sure you may also have some room modes causing problems, but your first step is to do the "sub crawl" and see if you can't find a better place for the sub. I would exhaust everything Jake recommends before playing with the EQ. And the "kick in the gut" feeling does increase with dBs. Really, do yourselves a favor and play with the other possibilities before trying to EQ things out. Another word of advice: If you can't resist and want to play with EQ, the proper way to do this is to find the annoying frequencies and bump them down. The advice I gave earlier is what I tell my "bass first and foremost" friends who could care less what everything else sounds like. So, if you are like them, boost away. If you really want to do it right don't boost, cut.
