[Michal]

Hmm, another way
I have EQ on 0 and the music is better with it. This is private thing, how to set up an EQ. You have to listen some music and correct it.

I have EQ set on 0, look at picture below

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

That's just a software EQ though.

We're talking about something like this:


It's not as simple as "Set it at 0"

Each of those little sliders corresponds to a different frequency of the audio being put through - allowing you to fine tune the exact sounds you get.

[Michal]

Can you add to post a full-resolution picture of this EQ you have?
What are you going to correct? Vocal, bass, high frequency? What kind of music? Or maybe movies sounds?

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Any frequency you want - the left most sliders are the lowest, right up to the highest on the right side.

Then the top set is 1 Channel, like say Left, and the bottom is Channel 2, Right in this case.

I use mine on the Front Stereo output from the PC, so yeah I use it in movies, listening to music, whatever really.

[Michal]

Originally Posted by 4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie

the left most sliders are the lowest, right up to the highest on the right side.

I know it it's normal on the EQs
Well, hip-hop music, club music needs much bass (50-125)Hz, and a bit less treble (8-16)kHz. For rock, jazz, metal or classical music (kinds of music, where are real instruments) the EQ should be set about 0, just a bit bass, middle, treble... You should set up the EQ, when you are listening to some music.
The right and left channel should be set the same.

[Bubba]

Hip Hop is already recorded heavy on the bass.

Sound is a sine wave. Are you familiar with a sine wave? As such it oscillates. The sine wave is "contained" by two horizontal lines, one at the top one at the bottom. You want to increase the levels of your equalization so that as the wave occilates it maximizes and minimizes at the top and bottom lines. IE: It touches them without escaping their boundaries to get the full range of sound. When you increase the levels too much, the sine wave escapes the limits and you lose the tops and bottoms of your sound and are left with the middle. The only thing that can be said about it at that point, is that it is LOUD.

Michal: Most music is recorded with vocals in mind, so they "up" the vocal tracks which are traditionally the middle range of an EQ. As such the "traditional" method of equalization is to leave the middle static and increase the treble and bass forming a sort of V. However as the low ends and high ends can be rather overpowering, towards the end of the equalizer, one will dip them down a bit forming a sort of "gull wing" as it were. I wish i could do a graphic representation here to show you. Let me try my old buddy google........

EDIT: Here, in a quick search this is adequate: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/ar...c4/acoust1.htm

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

While HH is already edited to be heavier on the bass, it can still be neccessary to up it a bit further.

As for Oscillators, if you don't have a monitor, you just gotta do it by ear

It also helps though, if you are using mulitple speakers or channels, and also have crossovers setup, so that you can experience the range of sound without goin too heavy either way.

If you up the bass even just a bit, and you only have a mono mid-range speaker, say, then it will drone out vocals and anything else massivly - a speaker can't possibly vibrate slowly and quickly, right at the same time.

Note - I say "slowly" and "quickly", it's a lot more complicated than tat, but it will do as an example.

Anyway, I fear this is veering off-topic.

[Bubba]

How so? (vearing off topic) You can't set the EQ if you are clueless as to what you are doing and the scientific principals behind it.

Did you know that Pythagoras who discovered the Pythagorean theorem which is the basis of Geometry and Trig, ie sine as in sine waves) also developed the modern day scale system that we use in Western music. See the correlation between math, science, and music? It's all tied together.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

No I didn't mean you just then, I meant the whole discussion for the last 10 posts round about.

the OP hasn't said anything for a while, and everything being said is correct, just that we don't knowif the problem still persists.

I think the original question was "Where in the setup should a EQ be placed"

Answer - between PC output and Amp.


Think we've just complicated it a lot

[Bubba]

LOL I just noticed that as well. He was asking about cabling.......... whoops.