How to equalize your headphones: advanced tutorial (in progress) - Page 5

I found this EQ the other day and quite like it: http://www.rs-met.com/freebies.html

I've never been able to get electri-Q to work on my computer, but the link above seems to work well for me. It also lets me individually tune L/R, which is nice as my ears are slightly different particularly in the treble. 

Thanks for this guide. I really don't want to buy the program though, isn't there a way to do this within a vst sequencer like Ableton Live? As far as I can see you would just need a VST version of SineGen?

I don't know how this happened, but downloading Virtual Audio Cable fixed my Dolby Advanced Audio that hasn't been able to turn on for months. I installed VAC, and instantly my sound changes and I have no idea why. I go and check and WOOOO! But then I realized that it messed up my volume controls. So I turned off the driver, and the Dolby fix stayed, but now the driver is just gone it seems. Oh well, doesn't seem I'll be able to do this now. At least I can do simple EQs for my whole system again!
 

And how about equalizing my headphones using Android and Neutron MP? I assume that the equalizer prepared using your advices on my PC with cheap sound card do not necessarily translate into good at any sort equalizer on my SGS provided with Wolfsons DAC.

I was wondering if the parametric EQ FX from Creatives drivers would work with this as well?

Would be great to have it applied to all other audio as well.

I'm trying to get it to sound as natural as possible with the treble but the sound seems to be congesting more easily than with Electri-Q..

For those interested, this is the UI:

I'm still in the learning phase with this as I still don't really get how one could equalize his gear well by just using pink noise. How should I have an idea of what pink noise should actually sound like when I've never heard it perfectly equalizer for my own gear and ears?

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Originally Posted by kazaakas 

I was wondering if the parametric EQ FX from Creatives drivers would work with this as well?

Would be great to have it applied to all other audio as well.

I'm trying to get it to sound as natural as possible with the treble but the sound seems to be congesting more easily than with Electri-Q..

 

For those interested, this is the UI:

 

 

I'm still in the learning phase with this as I still don't really get how one could equalize his gear well by just using pink noise. How should I have an idea of what pink noise should actually sound like when I've never heard it perfectly equalizer for my own gear and ears?

Play around with the knobs, turn it up and down so you can calibrate your frequency sense.
Then about the pink noise, it should be a noise that just sounds like everything, if you can hear any frequency that stands out from the rest (eg: whuushhh, sssssss, mmmm , for a lack of better words) you reduce that portion until it blends in with the background noise. It does take some time and experience though. (yes it does require lots and lots of trying, learning and retuning.)

add on note: graphic eq is better for beginners since it's the most direct but still can produce good results when done correctly

Yeah I got back to ElectriQ to get a little more experience with EQing first, however I'm now draining 7.3k and 12.8k both by 8-9 decibels with pretty wide dips and I'm still experiencing a LOT of sibilance with some songs and with some it's gone. There's this one song (Sail Away To Avalon by Ayreon) that had unlistenable siblance for me which I just can't seem to drain out at all. The "s" sound in vocals is just unbearable, quite a shame because it's a song I really used to like before getting so nitpicky about sound :)

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Originally Posted by kazaakas 

Yeah I got back to ElectriQ to get a little more experience with EQing first, however I'm now draining 7.3k and 12.8k both by 8-9 decibels with pretty wide dips and I'm still experiencing a LOT of sibilance with some songs and with some it's gone. There's this one song (Sail Away To Avalon by Ayreon) that had unlistenable siblance for me which I just can't seem to drain out at all. The "s" sound in vocals is just unbearable, quite a shame because it's a song I really used to like before getting so nitpicky about sound :)

Could it be the 10khz and the 5khz that is causing the remaining sibilance?