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Neutral setting bass/treble in Windows mixer?

post #1 of 4
4/28/11 at 2:12am
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Hi everybody,

nearly every sound card enables the user to set bass and treble via the enhanced volume control of Windows. My question: Which setting is the neutral setting of these two slide controls (neutral = bass and treble are not increased and not decreased)? There are basically two ways of interpreting these slide controls:

1. The neutral position is on the left side (0%). Moving a knob to the right will increase the parameter.
2. The neutral position is in the middle (50%). Moving left will decrease, moving right will increase.

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post #2 of 4
4/28/11 at 9:12am

50% is "neutral".

 

You can double-check how it sounds by comparing windows' sounds with the sliders at whatever level you choose then playing back some music through a media player with WASAPI/ASIO/etc. output.


Edited by Mad Max - 4/28/11 at 9:13am
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post #3 of 4
4/28/11 at 10:36am

0 db is neutral.

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post #4 of 4
4/29/11 at 1:58am
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Thank you for your answers. I connected the sound chip with my wife's Vista system where a scale from -12 dB to +12 dB was shown. Although this is missing under XP, the behaviour should be the same.

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