bwhsh8r
New Head-Fier
- Joined
- Jan 6, 2010
- Posts
- 18
- Likes
- 11
I do not think that eq ing the bass would do anything harmful, unless your getting alot of distortion etc.
I do not think that eq ing the bass would do anything harmful, unless your getting alot of distortion etc.
haha thanks for the input guys. I'm guessing that putting the bass up will not damage the cans?
(I am happy with them tho. most bass from any i've owned)
Yeah as long as there isnt any distortion your fine. Distortion however will kill speakers, headphones, fast though.
just be careful with the EQ, its better to substract the mids and highs, leave the bass at normal level and turn up the volume than raise the bass level.
Can't be bad, it's not like the bass will have enough energy to shatter your skull.
I'll be more precise then, to be accurate the best way to equalize depends on how the music you are playing is mastered and what kind of equalization you want to apply.
When I say that you should turn up the volume, I mean the potentiometer on the headamp, not the digital volume.
The problem is boosting a frequency band is that you'll run into distortion, clipping and overload, from example, if the bass section of your music is at -3dB at its loudest, there's a 3dB headroom before clipping, a 6dB boost will make the music clip.
When you are using a negative gain, you'll be reducing the dynamics of the track, which can lead to a boring sound, especially if your music was mastered very quietly.
Technically speaking it's better to boost a small frequency band than apply a negative gain on a whole mids and highs since you are affecting a small part of the spectrum, but most recent music is master with so little headroom that you can run into clipping with a mere +3dB. That's why I usually recommend a negative gain on frequencies other than bass.
EDIT: You may want to use a parametric equalizer to achieve the best results, I suppose you don't want to pay 220 bucks for the Redline Equalizer, but the Electri-Q has a free vst version that works with Foobar and Winamp.
. For bassheads a gently shaped V-curve usually provides best result with left end reaching a bit higher than right like this:
But of course the end result will vary depending on EQ used, I'm using a hardware DSP EQ personally along with kX Audio drivers for my Audigy card. I don't think how high you raise the bars really matter that much (ok, could lead to distortion if raised too high depending how it's linked to volume and generally the higher you raise it the warmer/aggressive sound signature and vice versa), but the shape of the curve does matter most on the EQ.