July 7, 2007
(Posted at 1:00 am)Understanding the XMMS equalizer
For people like me, who have almost no technical knowledge of what elements compose a sound stream - specially today’s music, managing the equalizer to get just the right music is bit too much experimenting. All I want is my music to sound just right!
Admist all the preparation I’m doing for tomorrow, I managed to get hold of Tyronne (my new roomy, the earlier Sinhalese language maintainer at Red Hat, now working with the JBoss team) and asked him to explain me the equalizer settings & what frequency means what & how to best utilize it.
ATM, i’m listening to Salim Shahzada’a Aaja Nachle & the setting I did a few songs back is still rocking my ears! I’ve tried configuring xmms’s equalizer for pleasant vocals & the following setting is seemingly good for what I wanted 
Following will help you to decide the best setting for you (what follows is not technical info but what I understood from what Tyronne told me - but the above setting is nice for lyrics heavy songs)
- 60 - Heavy Base
- 170 - Base
- 310 - Muddy Base
- 1K and 3K - Vocals
- 6K and 12K - Distortion
- 14K and 16K - Sharp highes
The above equalizer setting is sounding soo good that I’ve saved it as the default preset