My point being to listen to a diverse range of audio, but within the category/genre you have chosen to make the preset for.ĭoing this is very easy and very productive.
With that in mind, I separate movies/music from talk focused videos because I want different things from those two groupings of audio I consume. The broader the range of types of audio you listen to when making the adjustments, the more fine-tuned your settings will be. This process is how I go about creating the different presets I use. Before long (within a couple of pieces of audio) you will find that your audio sounds as good as you think it can and you won’t want to mess with it any more, at which point you are done. Once you have everything sounding perfect, move on to the next piece of audio and repeat the process. Starting at the first slider again, repeat the process, but this time remember what setting you start at so you can go back to it if you find you don’t need any additional changes. Once you have your equalizer settings dialed in for a specific piece of audio, save the settings as a preset labeled for audio and equipment type, then play a different piece of audio of a similar type (music, movie, talking). For short audio like songs I will need to replay the same track repeatedly a couple of times before I get the settings dialed in. Once you have set the whole range of frequency sliders, go back and fine tune your settings as necessary until you have the best possible sound profile you can create for that specific piece of audio. Depending on what you are listening to, certain sliders (representing specific frequencies) will have more or less effect than others. Continue doing this from left to right (or opposite if you prefer) until you have manually set each slider at what sounds like the perfect spot to you. If moving the slider up and down all the way doesn’t change the sound, I leave that slider at 0 (no change). Then I move to the next frequency over to the right and repeat the process. Once I know what the effect on sound is, I start moving the slider in a more narrow range until it sounds as good as I can get it at that particular frequency.
I move the bar slider to the top and bottom to see what effect is had on that particular frequency. As it plays, I start on the left hand side at the first frequency bar slider. I start by playing a given piece of audio (song, video, movie). My basic method of creating an Equalizer APO preset: With my Youtube talk presets I drop the mid-range and boost the highs, which gets rid of the added muffled quality and makes voices sound crisp and clear by comparison (much more like they are in person instead of speaking through a poor quality speaker). Whatever the reason, voices always have a low muffled quality around them that I’ve always found annoying. With talk heavy programming on Youtube, I found that almost without exception they all have a dull mid-range hum that surrounds the voices (male and female). Movies and music sound like I expect them to with boosted lows and highs (vibrant, energetic, and stimulating) as opposed to without equalization (flat, neutral, boring). Each of my individual presets compensates for the specifics of the individual pieces of equipment, but a general description would be that my music/movie presets have boosted highs and lows (treble and bass), whereas my Youtube talk presets have reduced bass, mildly reduced mids, and boosted treble. For any specific piece of audio I can dial in the settings to make the audio sound just perfect for that specific file, but doing so is really time consuming and I find I’m happy with my current two preset method.
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It makes a good option for a first step into getting people to pursue better sound quality (hopefully leading to them purchasing a dac/amp and good headphones).Ĭurrently I have two equalizer presets for each of my headphones and speakers – one for music and movies, the other for Youtube channels that are mostly talking (such as talk shows, product reviews, how to videos). Also I have downloaded Equalizer APO on all of my friends and coworkers laptops (none of whom own separate dac/amps) so that they can have better sound quality. For whatever reason on my computer Equalizer APO doesn’t have any effect on my dac/amp (Topping DX7s), which is fine because I love how my DX7s sounds but worth noting because everything I say here only applies to straight out the laptop’s headphone jack audio (at least in my case). Before I got my first dac/amp, it enabled me to get a level of sound quality that I had never experienced before. My laptop’s sound quality directly out the headphone jack (no additional external dac/amp) is dramatically improved utilizing Equalizer APO.
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