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Adventures in EQing
Ummon:
I've had a heck of a time with my car stereo gig. I get a deck that only has one set of RCA outs. I wasn't hot on the display interface anyway. I get another deck that sounds great; I like the display interface, but don't like the controls interface, and the sub channel output just blows. Oh, and the thing never remembered where you were last on the SD source. ??
So I get a different deck that solves all these problems....except....it doesn't sound as good as the second deck did out of the box.
For weeks, I'm messing around with the features trying to get the right combination of bass with everything else: EQ, sub channel, bass booster, sub peak freq, overal High Pass Frequency - the best I get is nice sub and drums, and voice and cymbals. Guitars aren't lost exactly, but they're not shouting at me, especially when the kick drums are blast beats.
At this point, the EQ is set like this:
I'm thinking, 'there's gotta be something I can do here. I boosted at 315, and that helped....but something's missing. The only place left is in the middle.' In an amp manual I once read that one channel was designed with a 'cut' at 700hz, to eliminate muddiness. I remember this and thought about what I heard through my deck and thought, 'you know, this may be where I've heard other decks 'push'.'
So I decide to try this out, with some slight adjustments on the other bands, and come up with this:
And it sounds ---smurfin--- great. Guitars are baying like hounds, with great clarity all round.
I swear years ago, when I still scooped the mids on my guitar amps, seeing some deck in a store, where I was flipping through EQ presets and I came across this shape, and it sounded tubby or something. I guess my ear has really changed.
I asked a friend about it and he said:
"Yes - I think your 800-2k range is where most of your 'sonic energy is,' so it would sound better boosted in those areas..."
Cakemeister:
I thought you were playing Everquest.
Aceldamor:
I also thought this was Everquest....I thought that game was dead.
Epyx:
I was thinking Everquest as well..how lame to find a stereo thread! ;)
Justin Z:
Hey Ummon since you seem to be an expert . . . I picked up a set of decent surround speakers for free. Do you think there's any way to decase them and use them as car speakers? Mine are factory crap with paper cones, so anything would be better.
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