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.

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.

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.

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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.

Glaucus · 13 Apr 2008 at 21:23

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

Glaucus · 17 Apr 2008 at 13:36

Well I turned the eq of even the default one and I have now got use to it and you can indeed hear more stuff in the back ground, still got a bit of bass on the amp though.

Should deff try it with EQ disabled, sounds a bit weird to start with though.