Any good guides that may show you how to set your equalizer up for a PC? My speakers are good, but produce too much bass(I live in an Apartment, so this is a problem, I am curtious of others around me )
Well, it all depends. Your best bet is to futz around with it a bit. Personally I run the equalizer on WinAMP and via the onboard sound controls. This is because I find if you turn either of them too high, they turn to crap. Now, if I had a good sound card, that might be different, I'm not sure. Personally I prefer high bass, mid highs, and mid-high (in between) treble. But you need to adjust that for your own needs, so just start sliding things around till you get it
Well, it's pretty darn hard to get decent sound with low bass ... I could upload a pic of my settings, but this doesn't take into account the a) surround sound system's sound (kinda airy) b) my stereo system's sound (which has bass/treble adjustments) c) the volume on both of these and the volume in winamp and the computer (all can affect things) d) the acoustic balancing of my room .. but .. if you still want it, ask lol.
If you have shelving EQ then you could try this:
Set the Gain to 2 dB
Set the Frequency to 2000Hz (2KHz)
Set the Q to 1
You can start there and then tweak with the frequency up or down
After that you can tweak the Q up but it will make the highend become more pronounced
If all else fails then tweak the gain
This is a fairly well known EQ setting start point in audio engineering for subtly increasing high end.
i like using headphones first, it needs to be a pretty good set of headphones. you can get a lot more detail from it. but entropy is right, it's all about your taste. everybody has their own style on what they like. i run sound for concerts and other live events and you can't tell someone how to do it. i mean i could teach someone how to control the settings, pan it left and right, set the trim, but when it comes to balancing the highs and low it's all about your ear. i learned that you never mess with what a sound tech is doing on his/her board. it's their ear and their project. but yeah i would use headphones to get the balance going and how you like it. what do u mean by you need help? is it muddy? do you not know how to control the differnet frequencies? Merrick is right in that you set the gain first. then you mess with the differnet frequency ranges and balance after that. sorry for the rambling. hope this helps
Turn your volume about half way as high as it will go, turn ALL your EQ settings to as low as they will go, then slide each one up to hear what effect it has, generally the bass is all the way to the left and the trebble (Highs) are all the way to the right. I set my EQ to boost the highs and lows and suck the mids out, that's how I listen to music and set my guitar amp. If your tone deaf then I guess your just beat cause I dont know how to help you if you are. if the bass is too high, turn it down, how many sliders do you have for your EQ? Maybe I can visualize what you are looking at and I can help you more.
cost money though 40 bucks. i got it because i do sound editing stuff and that gives me a balanced starting sound. then there is sonalksis 517 which i heard can be used as a live plugin but haven't been able to get that working live. that costs a lot of money though (300 bucks). i would just mess with your sound card eq and i'm sure you'll get it figured out. if you want to really hear the extremes of the sound band, just pump that freq band to hear where the range is and then adjust as required.
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Set the Gain to 2 dB
Set the Frequency to 2000Hz (2KHz)
Set the Q to 1
You can start there and then tweak with the frequency up or down
After that you can tweak the Q up but it will make the highend become more pronounced
If all else fails then tweak the gain
This is a fairly well known EQ setting start point in audio engineering for subtly increasing high end.
http://www.anwida.com/graeq.asp
cost money though 40 bucks. i got it because i do sound editing stuff and that gives me a balanced starting sound. then there is sonalksis 517 which i heard can be used as a live plugin but haven't been able to get that working live. that costs a lot of money though (300 bucks). i would just mess with your sound card eq and i'm sure you'll get it figured out. if you want to really hear the extremes of the sound band, just pump that freq band to hear where the range is and then adjust as required.