[leokennis]

Dear fellow head-fi'ers,

I only just recently purchased my first headphones (

); the Sennheiser HD201 seemed like a decent starter. But as you might know, it lacks some bass and (I believe) some mids too. This is its frequency chart thingy:

I want to try compensate for this by setting up a good EQ in Foobar...but I'm really bad at it

At the moment, I have this:

But I have the idea that I can get a lot more out of it...

Is there anyone here who can recommend me a good EQ setting foor the HD201? It would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance.

 

[emericanchaos]

what kind of music?

 

[leokennis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by emericanchaos /img/forum/go_quote.gif what kind of music?

Ah good question...mostly rock/folk-like (ranging from Audioslave to Bob Dylan to Sufjan Stevens), with some microhouse, jazz and hip-hop on the side So not really one genre. I don't know if it's possible to make an acceptable "generic" EQ, but if not and you have to chose, make it a rock EQ

Thanks for the fast reply!

 

[emericanchaos]

i would bring the 55hz below zero. usually this bass is just boomy floody noise. i cut it back alot then slowly boost it up if i need to fill in some gap.

make a hump around 156 - 220 smooth the inbtween sliders into that section.

start a downward slope that bottoms at 1.2khz.

make a hump from 1.8 - 3.5.

start a downward slope that puts 14khz on 0db and 20khz below 0db

that should get you a decent referece point. you can toy with it from there.

basically your drums are going to be around 110 - 311 then you flow into bass guitar type of sounds around 440.

vocals come in around 1k and guitars around 3k. above that is cymbals.

have fun!

my current EQ for these crap logitech Z340's. no mids whatsoever.

 

[emericanchaos]

since all my music is digital it's really quirky about how it wants to be EQ'd. i tend to save various EQ settings for different bands/albums.

 

[leokennis]

Oh my God...I now have this:

And I listened to the unmastered version of "Californication" first with my old EQ and then with yours. The difference is....wow...like now I'm listening to music

I mean that!

Very many thanks for the quick help!

 

[emericanchaos]

Quote:

Originally Posted by leokennis /img/forum/go_quote.gif Oh my God...I now have this: And I listened to the unmastered version of "Californication" first with my old EQ and then with yours. The difference is....wow...like now I'm listening to music I mean that! Very many thanks for the quick help!

those are some big humps

like i said, it's just a reference. you can play around and find something that may suit you better.

 

[leokennis]

You're right...I put in a little more high and "dehumped" 622 tot 1,2 a little. It doesn't benefit rock music, but for electronics it's better...

 

[calcajun]

That did look a LITTLE extreme.

 

[Scrith]

I recommend changing your configuration around a bit so that 0db is your highest setting...otherwise you will be increasing certain frequencies beyond their original values, which will cause clipping. Just slide the whole thing down by 6db (your highest setting).

Also, I originally used a sound frequency generating program to try to determine the relative strengths/weaknesses of my headphones (because there is no frequency response graph available for my headphones, as far as I know), which also ended up compensating not just for my headphones but for my ears. After creating an equalization pattern based on what I heard with the sound generation program, I tried listening to music with it...and was very happily surprised at how "right" it sounded. I then tuned it with extensive A/B tests (turning the equalizer DSP on and off in Foobar2000) with various types of music, which made it sound even better with a wide variety of music.

 

[jiiteepee]

Why not try w/ some EQ's like
- AIXCoustix Electri-Q (64 band EQ for Winamp and as VST) - http://www.aixcoustic.com/index.php/..._edition/30/0/ (you can position those bands freely)
- SSS Linear Phase EQ VST (64 band EQ) - http://www.geocities.jp/webmaster_of_sss/vst/ EDIT: not very good EQ
- KarmaFX EQ VST (30 band EQ) - http://www.karmafx.dk/

+

Voxengo SPAN for to analyze the signal - http://www.voxengo.com

+

Acon Digital EffectChainer - http://www.acondigital.com/us_EffectChainer.html for to get both plug-ins, EQ (if VST version used) + SPAN added into Foobar (or Winamp/Mediamonkey).

+ if you need to adjust the volume before plugins, use either the slider in Foobar or Sonalksis FreeG (stereo) - http://www.sonalksis.com/index.php?section_id=99

Additional plug-ins you need are listed in my sig.

It's maybe best to adjust the compensation curve w/ some linear sweep signal or by just picking some data points from frequency curve of your headhones.


jiitee

 

[leokennis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by calcajun /img/forum/go_quote.gif That did look a LITTLE extreme.

I only tweak extreme

jiiteepee: I'll look into those later; those are a lot of links

 

[emericanchaos]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrith /img/forum/go_quote.gif I recommend changing your configuration around a bit so that 0db is your highest setting...otherwise you will be increasing certain frequencies beyond their original values, which will cause clipping. Just slide the whole thing down by 6db (your highest setting).

that's a good way to work around the lack of a preamp slider in fb2k