BF2S Forums Do you equalize?

Should this be in the music section?
anyway i don't for the same reason as you. it's too much effort to change EQ for every song/genre

See that's what I always thought it was for, but why do they always label the presets things like "rock" and "jazz"?

i pretty much know how any thread about sound/audio is going to turn out. It's actually getting kinda old.

ontopic: I don't leave it flat, i usually have one for headphones and one for speakers

Last edited by jsnipy (2009-09-20 10:38:38)

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

See that's what I always thought it was for, but why do they always label the presets things like "rock" and "jazz"?

To appeal to the masses.

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

Again, tell me one good reason to not use equalizer to make music sound the way I like it, but instead start doing what you said freezer.

Nothing prevents you from doing so, but that isn't what the purpose of an EQUALizer is.

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2009-09-20 10:38:42)

jsnipy wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

See that's what I always thought it was for, but why do they always label the presets things like "rock" and "jazz"?

To appeal to the masses.

GC_PaNzerFIN wrote:

Again, tell me one good reason to not use equalizer to make music sound the way I like it, but instead start doing what you said freezer.

Nothing prevents you from doing so, but that isn't what the purpose of an EQUALizer is.

Who cares seriously? Does this help the thread or provide anyone with any benefit?

It does. Isn't telling people who don't know what they're doing what they're doing beneficial? Your posts are the most unrelated ones in this thread.

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2009-09-20 10:45:14)

Scoop up a little bass and a little treble in foobar2000 then hit the auto-level button.

No

Jenspm wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

jsnipy wrote:

Who cares seriously? Does this help the thread or provide anyone with any benefit?

It does. Isn't telling people who don't know what they're doing what they're doing beneficial? Your posts are the most unrelated ones in this thread.

Actually, nobody cares.

You use the Equalizer to make the music sound how you like it best. End of.

You may use it to do that, but all that can be said is urdoinitrong.

If you want to jump down Freezer's throat for no other reason then that these audio threads generally end up in the gutter, keep your childish flaming out of the realm of arguing fact.

Davis, Don and Carolyn, Sound System Engineering, p141 - 151, First Edition 1975. wrote:

An equalization (EQ) filter is a filter, usually adjustable, chiefly meant to compensate for the unequal frequency response of some other signal processing circuit or system.

Ze Dictionary! wrote:

A tone control system designed to compensate for frequency distortion in audio systems.

Last edited by Defiance (2009-09-20 14:06:09)

Defiance wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

Freezer7Pro wrote:

It does. Isn't telling people who don't know what they're doing what they're doing beneficial? Your posts are the most unrelated ones in this thread.

Actually, nobody cares.

You use the Equalizer to make the music sound how you like it best. End of.

You may use it to do that, but all that can be said is urdoinitrong.

If you want to jump down Freezer's throat for no other reason then that these audio threads generally end up in the gutter, keep your childish flaming out of the realm of arguing fact.

Davis, Don and Carolyn, Sound System Engineering, p141 - 151, First Edition 1975. wrote:

An equalization (EQ) filter is a filter, usually adjustable, chiefly meant to compensate for the unequal frequency response of some other signal processing circuit or system.

Ze Dictionary! wrote:

A tone control system designed to compensate for frequency distortion in audio systems.

No one is disputing facts, Freezer clearly has devoted a lot of time in the realm of audio and has become quite knowledgeable (so your "ze googling!" is making a moot point). It is just that time after time posts made by users asking questions or making surveys on audio topics get skewed and contorted into these goofy arguments, which become a distraction. But thanks for your interjection .

Jenspm wrote:

Actually, THIS is why these audio threads always go down the shitter.

The stuff you quoted pretty much say that you fiddle with the EQ to compensate for distorion in your speakers. Thus making it sound better, thus making the music sound nice, thus making the music sound how you WANT it to sound.

I dunno about you, but I assume most people want their music to sound how they like it best, not what some frequency graph tells them.

Imagine reading a book and swapping out words that you don't like. Imagine a publisher prints a book, but puts a blur on all the letters.

If an artist records a track to sound a certain way, I want to hear it the way they created it. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." The most fundamental lesson in musical education is learning from those before you.
If the sound engineer is instructed to compress the volume so that the track sounds better over flash apps and crappy internal system speakers, I'm not going to pay for that crap.

I couldn't care less that what I hear is more or less accurate to the wave form, but it implies a more accurate translation from creation to observation.

Defiance wrote:

Jenspm wrote:

Actually, THIS is why these audio threads always go down the shitter.

The stuff you quoted pretty much say that you fiddle with the EQ to compensate for distorion in your speakers. Thus making it sound better, thus making the music sound nice, thus making the music sound how you WANT it to sound.

I dunno about you, but I assume most people want their music to sound how they like it best, not what some frequency graph tells them.

Imagine reading a book and swapping out words that you don't like. Imagine a publisher prints a book, but puts a blur on all the letters.

If an artist records a track to sound a certain way, I want to hear it the way they created it. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." The most fundamental lesson in musical education is learning from those before you.
If the sound engineer is instructed to compress the volume so that the track sounds better over flash apps and crappy internal system speakers, I'm not going to pay for that crap.

I couldn't care less that what I hear is more or less accurate to the wave form, but it implies a more accurate translation from creation to observation.

What if we don't want listening to music to be a chore?

But Peter, what he's saying is that he thinks music should be listened to in it's "true" form, as intended by the producer. i.e. not changing any equaliser settings.

Or did I mis-interpret?