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November 29, 2011 at 4:12 pm #1051961
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should I use its EQ for ravey music? currently I turn it off for everything
November 29, 2011 at 4:13 pm #1247335Put it to what you think sounds best 🙂 that’s what i do.
November 29, 2011 at 4:15 pm #1247324@p0ly 459275 wrote:
Put it to what you think sounds best 🙂 that’s what i do.
i don’t know what sounds best without fiddling about for every mix. Is there not a more general setting?
November 29, 2011 at 4:27 pm #1247330@HSB 459273 wrote:
should I use its EQ for ravey music? currently I turn it off for everything
TBH if you have any other kind of EQ on your amp / speakers use that instead. I experimented with it and found that it was slower to respond and also easy to produce a nasty clipped/distorted signal.
November 29, 2011 at 4:32 pm #1247325@General Lighting 459284 wrote:
TBH if you have any other kind of EQ on your amp / speakers use that instead. I experimented with it and found that it was slower to respond and also easy to produce a nasty clipped/distorted signal.
I have sony laptop speakers with a small sub, there not bad actually took two other similar priced ones back till I got these they sound good.
what would you do settings wise?
November 29, 2011 at 4:58 pm #1247331if there are EQ settings on the speakers use these. otherwise if it sounds OK without the EQ then leave it switched off. I very rarely use the bass and treble on my power amp and although there is a graphic EQ one one of my newer mixers I only use it to avoid feedback if I am using something like a microphone which would produce it.
November 29, 2011 at 5:09 pm #1247326@General Lighting 459293 wrote:
if there are EQ settings on the speakers use these. otherwise if it sounds OK without the EQ then leave it switched off. I very rarely use the bass and treble on my power amp and although there is a graphic EQ one one of my newer mixers I only use it to avoid feedback if I am using something like a microphone which would produce it.
sometimes it sounds better with the “full base full treble” set to on? oh god I dont know
November 29, 2011 at 5:15 pm #1247336i like the bass up high.
November 29, 2011 at 5:39 pm #1247327November 29, 2011 at 5:45 pm #1247337@HSB 459302 wrote:
but not the treble?
well generally i just use the bass setting on the amp that’s all there is in front of me.
very occasionally put the treble up high on house tunes while mixing.
November 29, 2011 at 5:47 pm #1247328@p0ly 459305 wrote:
well generally i just use the bass setting on the amp that’s all there is in front of me.
very occasionally put the treble up high on house tunes while mixing.
okay, well I will try bass and see how it sounds. Cheers
November 30, 2011 at 4:29 am #1247333EQ settings depend just as much on your speakers and your listening environment as they would do with what music you’re playing through them (probably more so tbh).
The settings that sound good on my speakers in my room might sound shit on your speakers in your room and vice-avers playing exactly the same music.
November 30, 2011 at 4:43 am #1247334Just play about with it if you don’t think your speakers are sounding good, I don’t use an EQ really, only if I’m listening back to a song I’ve made and want to compare it with slight boosts in certain places so I can adjust it next time i goto work on the song, or if something I’m listening to is really badly recorded.
Most music should sound decent out of the box. It’s just EQing to compensate for frequencies your speakers are lacking/have too much of or to fix aspects of the ambiance your room has that most people do (whether they realize it or not).
Rough Freq Ranges for you so you can play about with it anyway …
20-80Hz is sub bass …
80Hz -300Hz (deep)bass
300Hz-600Hz (woody) bass/low mids
600-2000Hz Mids
2000Hz-5000Hz Hi mids
5000Hz-20Khz hi end to max of human hearingthat’s a very rough guide off the top of my head, probably not scientificaly acurate .. but enough of a guide to know roughly what you are changing.
Best thing is to play around with an EQ till it sounds best …
there’s a few ways you can do it …
one .. just move them up and down and see what you like. … a good way of setting an EQ properly is to set everything to minimum … then put the middle band to the center … work your way up one at a time from the middle addjusting it till it’s just below where it sounds too loud compared the the bands allready there … then to go down from the middle once you’ve reached the top.
ohh … some people say the “disco smile” is good for dance music … no exact settings .. but you could have a slight peak in the middle droping down either side then slightly raising at each end (like a smile) I think this is more for hi powered speakers, but it can sound ok on other speakers.
just mess about see what sounds best for your speakers (you can allways reset it to default if you don’t like it)
November 30, 2011 at 10:20 am #1247329@DaftFader 459419 wrote:
Just play about with it if you don’t think your speakers are sounding good, I don’t use an EQ really, only if I’m listening back to a song I’ve made and want to compare it with slight boosts in certain places so I can adjust it next time i goto work on the song, or if something I’m listening to is really badly recorded.
Most music should sound decent out of the box. It’s just EQing to compensate for frequencies your speakers are lacking/have too much of or to fix aspects of the ambiance your room has that most people do (whether they realize it or not).
Rough Freq Ranges for you so you can play about with it anyway …
20-80Hz is sub bass …
80Hz -300Hz (deep)bass
300Hz-600Hz (woody) bass/low mids
600-2000Hz Mids
2000Hz-5000Hz Hi mids
5000Hz-20Khz hi end to max of human hearingthat’s a very rough guide off the top of my head, probably not scientificaly acurate .. but enough of a guide to know roughly what you are changing.
Best thing is to play around with an EQ till it sounds best …
there’s a few ways you can do it …
one .. just move them up and down and see what you like. … a good way of setting an EQ properly is to set everything to minimum … then put the middle band to the center … work your way up one at a time from the middle addjusting it till it’s just below where it sounds too loud compared the the bands allready there … then to go down from the middle once you’ve reached the top.
ohh … some people say the “disco smile” is good for dance music … no exact settings .. but you could have a slight peak in the middle droping down either side then slightly raising at each end (like a smile) I think this is more for hi powered speakers, but it can sound ok on other speakers.
just mess about see what sounds best for your speakers (you can allways reset it to default if you don’t like it)
cheers dude thats very useful.
November 30, 2011 at 8:42 pm #1247339Depends on the file type, how the song was ripped and the bit-rate, what format it was (CD, vinyl, WEB etc.). depends on the file-type (mp3, wav, flac etc, as all store music information differently and have different quality limits) and your hardware like your soundcard. All of this can affect how it processed and comes out the speakers.
Great post too Daft. 🙂
December 2, 2011 at 10:28 pm #1247340i didnt even know people still used winamp?
December 3, 2011 at 2:15 pm #1247332Try the classical and rock settings on an eq for dance music – they are where I start my twiddling with the eq settings 😉
December 4, 2011 at 9:58 am #1247338@rory_bealin 459809 wrote:
i didnt even know people still used winamp?
And why would you assume that?
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