On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:34:54 -0700, tabbypurr wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 August 2018 03:59:51 UTC+1,
jurb...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> >'Just twiddle with the knobs and sliders until it sounds good. What
>> else does one need to know? "
>>
>> Much. One sort of rule of thumb is to take FM hiss, turn off the muting
>> and see which controls have the most effect. The ones with less effect
>> should be boosting and the ones with more effect should be cutting. But
>> that is a very rudimentary primer on it. People used to bring their
>> cars to me to have me set the EQ, back when you could. Houses to, in
>> factr I modified an EQ for a friend of mine because it was only a 5
>> band and he needed slightly different frequencies. I turned the 60 Hz
>> control into about a 40, the 250 into a 150, left the 1,000 alone and
>> the 3,500 but extended the 15 KHz to infinity by removing the inductor.
>> Also the new 40 Hz control's range extended to subsonic. I used
>> resistance and whatever to get the range where I wanted it with the
>> same inductor, but the cap I took to about 10 X its original value.
>
> 5 band graphic eqs were crap, but the worst thing about them was that
> they wasted one of the sliders on a 1kHz band.