What EQ do you use in winamp?

Glaucus · 13 Apr 2008 at 18:48

Just been playing about with the Equalizer in winamp and suddenly realised how tinny some of them sound.

What does everyone else use? anyone got any decent custom ones for paradise lost type music.

Soft rock gives a good sound but slightly unbalanced.

MarcLister · 13 Apr 2008 at 18:52

Think I just use the default one. Just changed to the rock one and can't notice much difference.

megalomanic · 13 Apr 2008 at 19:57

think it's quite close to the 'Techno' preset, despite having like 0 techno in my library

Azagoth · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:10

None, I turn it off in Winamp! I have my sound card outputting to my stereo, so I use the EQ on there instead.

BurningHorizons · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:20

I tend to use off for quiet listening and full bass & treble for loud listening / parties etc

Greenlizard0 · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:42

Nothing - I prefer my music untouched.

Hxc · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:45

I tend not to EQ things at all as I rather the music "how it was made".

Zefan · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:48

I seriously cannot understand how people can listen to music "untouched" without feeling annoyed.

I *have* to use full bass and treble whenever possible. I even change it when I'm at mates houses because it just sounds pants otherwise. They normally think it makes music sound too sharp however if I then turn it off they go "Oh my god!" and then use it all the time.

AbsenceJam · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:52

None, I tend to leave my music as-is.

Glaucus · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:52

Zefan said:
I seriously cannot understand how people can listen to music "untouched" without feeling annoyed.
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To true, I'm not sure what setting winamp is at standard. But if you disable it. Music sounds absolutely rubbish and certainly not how it's meant to sound.

Hxc · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:53

What is your speaker/headphone setup? Mine sound utterly stupid if you bump up the EQ to max in program or turn treble and bass up to max on my amp.

Zefan · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:54

AcidHell2 said:
To true, I'm not sure what setting winamp is at standard. But if you disable it. Music sounds absolutely rubbish and certainly not how it's meant to sound.

Quite, almost like I'm listening to a 10 year old cassette tape

Caged · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:58

How do you know how it's meant to sound if you never listen to it on anything other than PC speakers plugged into Winamp? I run a flat EQ and it sounds perfectly fine, more than enough detail in the highs and plenty of bass. If I wanted to EQ it I wouldn't look to Winamp to provide that function either.

Glaucus · 13 Apr 2008 at 20:59

Hxc said:
What is your speaker/headphone setup? Mine sound utterly stupid if you bump up the EQ to max in program or turn treble and bass up to max on my amp.

Marantz reciever with 2 floor standers, 2 bookshelf and a centre. Not the best but gives good sound quality. It wasn't untill I plaid around with the presets did I notice how rubbish the default setting was.

Caged said:
How do you know how it's meant to sound if you never listen to it on anything other than PC speakers plugged into Winamp? I run a flat EQ and it sounds perfectly fine, more than enough detail in the highs and plenty of bass. If I wanted to EQ it I wouldn't look to Winamp to provide that function either.

Live gigs

Hxc · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:09

Live gigs depend very much on the venue and the positioning of speakers on what it sounds like. A lot of the time where we are bass is overpowered as the subs are all positioned into the "mosh pit" (it's more the floor near the stage, not a real "pit"), and as such the "genuine sound" sounds a lot more bassy than it should do.

I'm suprised that you run an EQ on a system like that, I was expecting something like cheap PC speakers. I guess it's just your taste, couldn't live with it myself, whacking up the bass and treble on my Rotel + Monitor Audios pretty much kills off the mids and gives a really horrid sound, and I feel the same way on headphones.

Glaucus · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:11

Hxc said:
I'm suprised that you run an EQ on a system like that, I was expecting something like cheap PC speakers. I guess it's just your taste, couldn't live with it myself, whacking up the bass and treble on my Rotel + Monitor Audios pretty much kills off the mids and gives a really horrid sound, and I feel the same way on headphones.

But that's why I'm asking because after having a fiddle I'm not happy with the sound. Before I just accepted it. But with EQ disabled it sounds terriable and tinny. The mp3 files are good quality as I rip them myself.

james.miller · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:11

none whatsoever, dont need it. although i will be going for a hardware equaliser to get rid of some humps in my in-room response. ideally you want the source (ie your pc) to be as faithful to the original music as possible. any changes made here will cause a loss of detail. make the changes in equalisation at the amplifier end instead. if it sounds tinny for music from the pc, its going to sound pretty rough for everything else too unless something else on the pc is also affecting the response.

Hxc · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:16

AcidHell2 said:
But that's why I'm asking because after having a fiddle I'm not happy with the sound. Before I just accepted it. But with EQ disabled it sounds terriable and tinny. The mp3 files are good quality as I rip them myself.

What bitrate mp3 are you using? Obviously it's preferable to use FLAC when going to an amp and the like, but it's not always possible.

It'll sound tinny in comparison because before you have unrealistic amounts of bass on, I got used to this on my walkman phone and it took a while to be able to notice the literally massive amounts of detail it removed from the music.

Glaucus · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:23

pretty much all 320kbit. Flac wasn't around years ago or at least not main stream.

Hxc · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:35

Fair enough then, shouldn't be able to tell a great difference with flac and mp3 there anyway. Odd. Personal taste I guess. Been fiddling with the EQ on my new walkman and slightly higher bass does sound nice but automatically after upping it, it sounds artificial. Oh well.