Best EQ for Heavy Metal?

[NoobSter]

What is the best EQ Setting for Heavy Metal?

[Bilbo Baggins]

I think that it is better to experiment, and tweak the settings yourself, since everyone has differnet speaker and soundcard rigs.

I hate people with Alienware machines

[NoobSter]

I guess i will have to adjust them my self =/ :*(

Aww, thats mean man.....

I have 3 Alienware Machines =)... 1 Custom... 2 Hp's... 1 Dell....

Mwa Hwa Hwa! LAN PARTY AT MY HOUSE! ( i play about all da' games... =) ) Mwa Hwa Hwa!

[deeder7001]

i use the same EQ setting for all my music.

[NoobSter]

oOo.... i use Rock.. it sounds the best that i can see.... ( well you know what i mean! "Hear" )

If you adjust it to the type of songs you listen to... you will love the songs you listen to ALOT more!

[Myxomatosis]

Originally posted by Bilbo Baggins
I think that it is better to experiment, and tweak the settings yourself, since everyone has differnet speaker and soundcard rigs.

I hate people with Alienware machines

That was pretty random, but I personally can't stand the cases and the prices.

[Bilbo Baggins]

I read his website

[k_rock923]

The best EQ setting is none at all, assuming that these tracks were ripped by someone who had half a clue as to what they were doing. That's why I stopped downloading songs for the most part. Half of these people have no idea how to rip a cd.

[deeder7001]

my EQ preset is pretty close to nothing. all i did was put it all to zero and then lowered the mids a little(small bass boost). sounds pretty good too.

[griffinn]

The best way to enjoy heavy metal is by clicking the "Stop" button.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I ended up pulling my Preamp down a couple dBs because most audio CDs are manufactured with volume levels that damn near clip the highs off the music. I also lowered the bass ranges on my EQ a little, lowered the midrange levels quite a bit, and put the treble ranges up a little bit. My EQ sliders look like a valley, so to speak. I keep the bass and treble knobs on my stereo amplifier set to 0, too.

[k_rock923]

like a valley? I remember hearing somewhere that i should set my EQ pedal to my guitar like that.

[ryan]

Originally posted by griffinn
The best way to enjoy heavy metal is by clicking the "Stop" button.

With the current state of the music scene these days, I'll agree with that.

[k_rock923]

My avatar is a good heavy metal band



make that was

[xzxzzx]

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I ended up pulling my Preamp down a couple dBs because most audio CDs are manufactured with volume levels that damn near clip the highs off the music.

That shouldn't make a difference, though. If the music is compressed so much that it clips the highs off, they're clipped off - postprocessing after that won't fix it...

[Cognition]

Unless you had the preamp above the zero point, where it'd boost the signal and cause it to clip more (or start clipping, if it was already just below). But yeah, lowering it below 0 wouldn't help if the CD had already clipped (which is why analogue stuff was nice, cause it didn't clip in the same sudden way as digital)

[will]

Originally posted by NoobSter
Mwa Hwa Hwa! LAN PARTY AT MY HOUSE! ( i play about all da' games... =) ) Mwa Hwa Hwa!

Damn. I wish I had more computers than friends

[Sir_Ed]

I'm using the Rock-preset myself. But the problem is a common one and mentioned before. Many different people, use many different ways to rip and so I could well turn out that for the one Rammstein track you'll need the rock preset, for the other Rammsetin track the dance-preset and for your newest Mozart download you're gonna wanna use the techno-preset. So far, though, I feel that the rock-preset is the best.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

That shouldn't make a difference, though. If the music is compressed so much that it clips the highs off, they're clipped off - postprocessing after that won't fix it...

I compress my music to a very high quality, but I also set it to a max of 19.5khz high freq. It's not my encoding that causes the problem, it's the original recording. Most CDs that I have were recorded at a very high volume, but just below actually clipping. If I were to raise my preamp above 0 at all, my music would start clipping. I don't do any volume normalizations before I encode, either. I encode straight rips. So, to keep my music from clipping, I simply turn down the preamp a notch or two, then I set my grapic equalizer like I mentioned above. That way, there isn't any distortion or clipping.

[fwgx]

I dont use the EQ at all for anything. I listen to a lot of rock MP3's but I prefer listening to CD's unripped trough my hi-fi. The best way to get a good rock sound is to use a decent amp with decent speakers. I bought my system because it should work well with rock music and it certainly does. Splashout a few hundred quid on a seperates system and then start enjoying music like you haven't done before.

[nybergh]

Why EQ?

first rip cd's to mp3 only with LAME --alt-preset standard. CDex (see my sig) is a good program that is easy to config. Also use the latest stable lame (right now 3.96.1), never use alphas or betas!
http://rarewares.org/mp3.html

if you have decent speakers there is no need for eq at all. if you have near decent speakers like I do, use Enhancer.

[Cognition]

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I compress my music to a very high quality, but I also set it to a max of 19.5khz high freq.

CD's have the frequency cut off above 20Khz anyway, because of the Nyquist theorem. Er, that's probably not worth explaining, but, yeah.

[lostonline]

Originally posted by nybergh
if you have decent speakers there is no need for eq at all. if you have near decent speakers like I do, use Enhancer.

I'd mostly agree with this, I don't equalize at all on my hi-fi (although I do make some minor adjustments on my PC as I use cheap speakers with that most of the time).

[fwgx]

Originally posted by Cognition
CD's have the frequency cut off above 20Khz anyway, because of the Nyquist theorem. Er, that's probably not worth explaining, but, yeah.

But this is not the best you can get, it's the minimum you can away with. Much better to use a higher still sample rate like used on SACD.

[Cognition]

Oh, yeah of course, he was just talking about CDs. You can't allow frequencies above half the sample rate, but DVD and SACD and stuff are higher so yeah the cutoff can be higher.

[gaekwad2]

Originally posted by Phily Baby
But this is not the best you can get, it's the minimum you can away with. Much better to use a higher still sample rate like used on SACD.

If you're a bat (and like copy protection).

Beside the fact, that DSD is not the state of art, but crap -- Frank Klemm
The answer to the SACD vs. DVD-Audio question is: CD -- DigitalMan

[fwgx]

I was talking about sample rates, my point is valid .

[gaekwad2]

The number of postive blind tests between 24bit/96khz and 14bit/44.1khz is extremely low, and most of them were done with special equipment (most speakers aren't even able to reproduce 20khz).

[Cognition]

"That's why all new Reference Series models come with a state-of-the-art 19mm titanium dome Hypertweeter™ for massively extended HF performance. Mounted in low diffraction, chrome-plated steel enclosures time aligned with the main array, they deliver flat response to 50kHz and useful energy up to 70kHz." - KEF

They're insane. They also have a 1000W home theatre sub which is over half a metre square and plays down to 16Hz.

[gaekwad2]

Great for dog owners.

[mark]

dude, your java applet hurts my litestep.

[Zax_14]

my best setting is:

preamp cranked to the max

60 - almost to the top
170 - a little below 60
310 - a bit above neutral
600, 1k and 3k - at neutral (+0 dB)
6k -same as 170...basically its the one that controls the drums that are not bass or cymbal (the torns and snare) so it needs to be high for better sound...
12k - same as 310
14k - a little below 6k
16k - as 6k...


...ah screw it...you didn't get anything...ill just link a photo...xDD

http)://img338.imageshack.us/i/26668955.jpg/ (it doesnt want to show the link for some reason...just remove the bracket after "http"...its imageshack...dont worry...)

you can play around a bit but this is the template...bass and treble high, mid-range low, spike at 6k...

[tuckerm]

Uhhh, I'm all for metal and all but i'm not for bumping a GD thread. Tuckerm DISAPPROVES.

[P$ycHo™]

it was only 5 years old, no reaon to go "Uhhh"

[ElChevelle]

Metal needs no EQ.
Just turn everything ALL THE WAY UP AND ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!

\m/

[gaekwad2]

That's not Metal. Can't have Metal without scooped mids.
(yes, during recording)

[k_rock923]

Originally posted by gaekwad2
That's not Metal. Can't have Metal without scooped mids.
(yes, during recording)

Don't forget to tune the E string so that it's like a shoelace.

[Paul_Bags]

Biggest amp and speakers you can find. Metal shouldn't be so much 'heard' as 'felt as a concussive force inside your skull'. And all kinds of concussive force from others in the mosh pit, if your doing it right.

I mean seriously, music that sounds better if you thrash your head back and forth?

[deeder7001]

If you have to thrash your head back and forth to make it sound good it must suck quite a bit.

[kingo'mountain]

i wholeheartedly agree