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Jul 12, 2011 - 3:04 AM
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Can you suggest an easy step by step way to do what you did for others on the forum who might want more bass here? Sure. I haven't kept a record of the exact frequencies I used. I can describe the process which you can apply to your own taste. It's actually seems a very simple and naive way of doing it. I didn't expect it to work. I'm happy with the results. Someone suggested turning up the bass and down the treble on their stereo to achieve the same effect. Unless you have a 20 band plus graphic equalizer this won't work. The EQing needed is extreme and on a narrow band of frequencies. A bass or treble control pushes a whole envelope of frequencies. There's a free sound editor called Audacity, a little rough and ready but likeable, which will do the trick. Rip the CD onto your hard drive. Convert to wav files. Audacity can't handle the WMA files which are the default output of Windows Media Player. Lots of software can do this conversion, maybe even Media Player itself (I haven't checked). Import track by track into Audacity. Choose Effect | Equalization and you'll see a 30-ish band graphic equalizer. In the range 40 to 100 Hz, add about 12 to 14 dB. Above 1000Hz start scooping the waveform down, with a -10 dB trough between 4000 to 10000 Hz. On some tracks I got too much volume increase and used Normalization effect to bring it down. Use your ears. If you like the sound, Export the track as a wav. If not, undo the equalization, tweak the settings and try again. If I had to criticise the sound I got, there's a little loss of detail in the treble registers. My EQing was extreme. It could have been done more subtly (fewer dB added and taken away).
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Rip the CD onto your hard drive. Convert to wav files. Audacity can't handle the WMA files which are the default output of Windows Media Player. Lots of software can do this conversion, maybe even Media Player itself (I haven't checked). If you open Windows Media player and click on the Now Playing Tab, then click on the More Options tab, you can program Windows Media Player to rip in wav files as standard. This does make things easier.
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Can you suggest an easy step by step way to do what you did for others on the forum who might want more bass here? Sure. I haven't kept a record of the exact frequencies I used. I can describe the process which you can apply to your own taste. It's actually seems a very simple and naive way of doing it. I didn't expect it to work. I'm happy with the results. Someone suggested turning up the bass and down the treble on their stereo to achieve the same effect. Unless you have a 20 band plus graphic equalizer this won't work. The EQing needed is extreme and on a narrow band of frequencies. A bass or treble control pushes a whole envelope of frequencies. There's a free sound editor called Audacity, a little rough and ready but likeable, which will do the trick. Rip the CD onto your hard drive. Convert to wav files. Audacity can't handle the WMA files which are the default output of Windows Media Player. Lots of software can do this conversion, maybe even Media Player itself (I haven't checked). Import track by track into Audacity. Choose Effect | Equalization and you'll see a 30-ish band graphic equalizer. In the range 40 to 100 Hz, add about 12 to 14 dB. Above 1000Hz start scooping the waveform down, with a -10 dB trough between 4000 to 10000 Hz. On some tracks I got too much volume increase and used Normalization effect to bring it down. Use your ears. If you like the sound, Export the track as a wav. If not, undo the equalization, tweak the settings and try again. If I had to criticise the sound I got, there's a little loss of detail in the treble registers. My EQing was extreme. It could have been done more subtly (fewer dB added and taken away). Just an opinion..... But some folks have WAY too much free time on their hands......... Ford A. Thaxton
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Jul 12, 2011 - 8:15 AM
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If you use iTunes, avoid all the stuff above. Instead, simply import your CD into iTunes (preferably as lossless files). You can then apply all the frequency boosts or cuts you like to EACH INDIVIDUAL TRACK as required using the inbuilt graphic equalizer and STORE THOSE CUSTOM CHANGES so that they are always applied whenever that specific track or set of tracks is played, WITHOUT PERMANENTLY ALTERING the original characteristics of the imported music files. Same for levels. This is preferable for most people because at any future time, if you use different speakers or a different listening location, you might prefer to re-adjust the frequency response etc and you can easily do so because the original recording as originally imported is still there, in its original sound balance. All that's required is to re-adjust the settings and re-apply them to memory for any track/s you like. Much easier than mastering editing software and ending up with permanently altered recordings. If you want to adjust more complex areas such as reverberation, then you'll need something like Audacity, but for straightforward level and tonal changes iTunes built-in facilities can do the job admirably. You can burn a CD from iTunes too, of course.
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If you use iTunes, avoid all the stuff above. Instead, simply import your CD into iTunes (preferably as lossless files). You can then apply all the frequency boosts or cuts you like to EACH INDIVIDUAL TRACK as required using the inbuilt graphic equalizer and STORE THOSE CUSTOM CHANGES so that they are always applied whenever that specific track or set of tracks is played, WITHOUT PERMANENTLY ALTERING the original characteristics of the imported music files. Same for levels. This is preferable for most people because at any future time, if you use different speakers or a different listening location, you might prefer to re-adjust the frequency response etc and you can easily do so because the original recording as originally imported is still there, in its original sound balance. All that's required is to re-adjust the settings and re-apply them to memory for any track/s you like. Much easier than mastering editing software and ending up with permanently altered recordings. If you want to adjust more complex areas such as reverberation, then you'll need something like Audacity, but for straightforward level and tonal changes iTunes built-in facilities can do the job admirably. You can burn a CD from iTunes too, of course. Way too much free time....... Nuff said. Ford A. Thaxton
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Way too much free time....... Nuff said. Ford A. Thaxton You're just bitter because you have to spend so much of your own free time fielding complaints about the mass typographical errors on every release you're involved with. Wow, Basil the fanboy is getting upset.. such is life. Ford A. Thaxton
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