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Bleh it's dying with my version of Foo Bar I'll stick with stock EQ it's still good!
You should always EQ subtractively. Instead of turning the bass up, pull all the other frequencies down. If you boost, you'll push the bass into clipping and it will distort.
If you notice, everything on that graph is under the zero line.
Yeah I've heard that, but at any rate when bumping it up causes massive distortion it shows that it's not the best quality of equalizer. Using my STX's EQ doesn't cause distortion like that if I bump it up to the same levels.
No I think you had the trial version installed instead of the freeware version I linked above. For a clean signal use digital mode and don't enable eco. Enjoy.
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You should always EQ subtractively. Instead of turning the bass up, pull all the other frequencies down. If you boost, you'll push the bass into clipping and it will distort.
If you notice, everything on that graph is under the zero line.
Hey xnor, I thought digital non eco was the best setting too, but then I ran Electri-Q (freeware) through Audacity and I found that eco mode preserved a sharp impulse spike while non-eco mode smeared it out. And I could get two equal and opposite EQ settings to cancel out into a clean impulse spike again using eco mode but not when using non eco mode. Can you tell me what's going on?
streetdragon said:
yes i know i got carried away and put the 50hz and below is at +14db but then my preamp is -14db so it compensates for it
when i put the preamp at 0db and the music plays you can see the 'CUT' sign there in a red circle, this means clipping is happening.
but other than that when i use this curve my music flows out fantasticly (either the software is ok or my headphone is not revealing enough....)
I see I see, I proably won't look into to much more with an EQ, as the standard FooBar one was pretty good when I Eq'd my Xb 700s, and ofc the Dt 880s dont need more than +2db boost to the lower ranges
still though I might try Easy Q just for fun!
the electri-q that xnor was kind enough to explain to me how to install is actually really cool too, if you follow the directions he gave me you could have it in foobar in a matter of minuets. i actually spent 4-5 hours with iems yesterday, followed by 2-3 hours with speakers. foolish, but i did it anyway. so after all that my ears hurt like hell and still do a little bit - so i havnt been listening to music - so i havnt been playing with the eq - so i cant tell you much more.
non the less, i found it to be really cool from what little messing about i got in =]
Ah I see. So basically an EQ with an auto limiter isn't exactly what you see is what you get?
Yeah I've heard that, but at any rate when bumping it up causes massive distortion it shows that it's not the best quality of equalizer. Using my STX's EQ doesn't cause distortion like that if I bump it up to the same levels.
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Oh yeah I remember someone PMing me because of this.
The non-eco mode seems to internally oversample (which includes a low pass filter). Eco mode doesn't do that. Electri-Q also has a DC blocking filter that afaik cannot be disabled.
I just used electri-q as an example, there are other EQs. Let me suggest this one: EasyQ. It's free, simple to use and does exactly what you tell it to.
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