What does the EQ do to my headphone speakers?
What does the EQ do to my headphone speakers?
I was looking at the settings for my iPod and came across the EQ;s. (electrionic, spoken word, latin, dance, treble booster, etc.)
What do all those choices do to the speakers?
Is there a one that is the best ?
maybe: It doesn't do anything to the speakers, it just tells it to play slightly different music.
Basically all sound is frequency (which is what makes pitch), and different genres of music sound better with more of certain frequencies of sound. For example, most people like rock music with a lot of low frequency (bass) and high frequency (treble), but not a lot inbetween. So the Rock setting on your ipod emphasizes the bass and treble. Same with other settings, but with slightly different sounds.
past 2: Guitars live in the midrange. Unfortunately, so do vocals. So, it's tough to isolate one from the other.
The loudness function will actually suppress the midrange, so you probably don't want to use that. The loudness function on audio equipment boosts the lows and highs. It's designed to compensate for the fact that our ears have different frequency responses at different sound pressure levels. At low levels, we tend to hear primarily midrange, with the lows and highs supressed.
So, turn the loudness off. And it might help just to turn everything down (and let your ears zero in on the midrange). If there's a graphic EQ function built in, then try boosting 1kHz to -3kHz to bring out the guitar parts a bit.
I was looking at the settings for my iPod and came across the EQ;s. (electrionic, spoken word, latin, dance, treble booster, etc.)
What do all those choices do to the speakers?
Is there a one that is the best ?
maybe: It doesn't do anything to the speakers, it just tells it to play slightly different music.
Basically all sound is frequency (which is what makes pitch), and different genres of music sound better with more of certain frequencies of sound. For example, most people like rock music with a lot of low frequency (bass) and high frequency (treble), but not a lot inbetween. So the Rock setting on your ipod emphasizes the bass and treble. Same with other settings, but with slightly different sounds.
past 2: Guitars live in the midrange. Unfortunately, so do vocals. So, it's tough to isolate one from the other.
The loudness function will actually suppress the midrange, so you probably don't want to use that. The loudness function on audio equipment boosts the lows and highs. It's designed to compensate for the fact that our ears have different frequency responses at different sound pressure levels. At low levels, we tend to hear primarily midrange, with the lows and highs supressed.
So, turn the loudness off. And it might help just to turn everything down (and let your ears zero in on the midrange). If there's a graphic EQ function built in, then try boosting 1kHz to -3kHz to bring out the guitar parts a bit.