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Doug Stewart says:
This is what your iTunes equalizer should be set to. Whether you’re using your poor laptop speakers, the default Apple earbuds, or fine pieces of engineering from a company that gives a damn, this removes the ‘flatness’ of a dead EQ and makes whatever you’re listening to sound more like itself.
Agreed! I keep the preamp slightly lower and may eventually tweak a few of the settings but am generally impressed. If only it were possible [ahem, Apple] to run custom EQs natively on iPhone/iPad without having to preset all of one’s iTunes tracks.
[Found via scatterbrainedboy]
Animal Collective sounds so pristine.
One day, I’ll find my perfect earphones…
as a mix engineer, one of the biggest problems with what we do is over-equalization. everyone, and i mean EVERYONE is used to hearing this. and it completely negates the time we take to make things sound right.
mostly because this is the way most FM stations EQ their broadcasts. but their program compression is really harsh, so you need this to restore all the punch on the transients that their limiters take out. but YOU SHOULD NOT NEED THIS ON SOMETHING YOU BUY. whether it’s a CD or something from iTunes, you shouldn’t need to EQ the shit out of something this harshly to make it sound good.
people, we engineers have this rule, supported by logarithms and some other complicated math. +3dB is equal to DOUBLING a frequency band. so +12dB is FOUR TIMES THE AMOUNT.
this doesn’t sound better. the only reason people think it does is that it accentuates so much of the wide-band signal of a track that it makes the amplitude so much louder so that the tracks sound louder. and any kind of significant EQ boost will increase the SPLs and the amplitude of a track, and more volume always = “better” sound. not for any real reason, but just because you’re hearing more level.
over-compression and over-eq is making the things mix engineers do pointless. i’m not saying don’t EQ in your iTunes. I do on some systems to EQUALIZE the frequencies to level out the deficiencies in the system. maybe the speakers are out of whack. maybe the room is fucked up. THAT is what EQ is for.
EQ is NOT for “I want more bass hur hur hur.”
Rant over.
^^
This, or… you really want more bass… hurhur](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwuidnE39w1qz4tito1_500.png)
Doug Stewart says:
This is what your iTunes equalizer should be set to. Whether you’re using your poor laptop speakers, the default Apple earbuds, or fine pieces of engineering from a company that gives a damn, this removes the ‘flatness’ of a dead EQ and makes whatever you’re listening to sound more like itself.
Agreed! I keep the preamp slightly lower and may eventually tweak a few of the settings but am generally impressed. If only it were possible [ahem, Apple] to run custom EQs natively on iPhone/iPad without having to preset all of one’s iTunes tracks.
[Found via scatterbrainedboy]
Animal Collective sounds so pristine.
One day, I’ll find my perfect earphones…
as a mix engineer, one of the biggest problems with what we do is over-equalization. everyone, and i mean EVERYONE is used to hearing this. and it completely negates the time we take to make things sound right.
mostly because this is the way most FM stations EQ their broadcasts. but their program compression is really harsh, so you need this to restore all the punch on the transients that their limiters take out. but YOU SHOULD NOT NEED THIS ON SOMETHING YOU BUY. whether it’s a CD or something from iTunes, you shouldn’t need to EQ the shit out of something this harshly to make it sound good.
people, we engineers have this rule, supported by logarithms and some other complicated math. +3dB is equal to DOUBLING a frequency band. so +12dB is FOUR TIMES THE AMOUNT.
this doesn’t sound better. the only reason people think it does is that it accentuates so much of the wide-band signal of a track that it makes the amplitude so much louder so that the tracks sound louder. and any kind of significant EQ boost will increase the SPLs and the amplitude of a track, and more volume always = “better” sound. not for any real reason, but just because you’re hearing more level.
over-compression and over-eq is making the things mix engineers do pointless. i’m not saying don’t EQ in your iTunes. I do on some systems to EQUALIZE the frequencies to level out the deficiencies in the system. maybe the speakers are out of whack. maybe the room is fucked up. THAT is what EQ is for.
EQ is NOT for “I want more bass hur hur hur.”
Rant over.
^^
This, or… you really want more bass… hurhur
