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« on: November 10, 2009, 08:33:49 PM » |
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I have an external usb sound card (maya44) at the weekend I stole some speakers from my parents house and hooked them up to said soundcard only to find there is too much bass and cannot change it anywhere within the soundcard settings its kind of annoying (probably neighbours more so than me).
Anyone got any ideas I've had a hunt for some sort of equaliser software but no luck...
Running vista if that helps....
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Mike@TheWhippinpost
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« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2009, 10:35:49 PM » |
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Does the soundcard have drivers?
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trx
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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2009, 02:31:42 PM » |
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Yes I have the latest drivers installed... the soundcard is ASIO compatiable not sure what this means or if it can help me out?
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Mike@TheWhippinpost
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2009, 05:42:24 PM » |
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Sorry, just realised you're using Vista, which has a totally different audio engine (to XP). Yes I have the latest drivers installed... the soundcard is ASIO compatiable not sure what this means or if it can help me out?
ASIO is basically used for music-making applications. Wouldn't worry about it unless you're a muso. |
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trx
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« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2009, 08:50:32 PM » |
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Decided on a fudge of a solution for now plan is to put output from sound card through my mixer and use its eq built into that to adjust levels..... Need a trip to maplin to get a cable will let you know if it works...
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robwhizz
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« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2009, 09:37:35 PM » |
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I think the idea of ASIO is that it gives direct access to the soundcard and that's why there isn't any software control panel to adjust EQ etc.
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Great post Jon! I have been following the effort since you started it, and although I have understood its purpose this post does a really great job solidifying the full rationale.
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« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2009, 09:15:44 AM » |
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Yeah, ASIO drivers affect the latency between your software and the soundcard. The onboard drivers for my PC are terrible so I use the superb free ASIO4ALL driver which means that when I hit a key on my MIDI keyboard I don't have to wait 5 seconds for my soft synth to play the note.
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trx
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« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2009, 09:19:39 PM » |
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My master plan didn't work don't think eq on my mixer has much effect without going through an amp before speakers. So if anyone does have any more ideas I would welcome suggestions.
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robwhizz
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« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2009, 10:52:15 PM » |
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Erm, so you are running the speakers directly off the sound card without an amp?
What are the speakers?
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Great post Jon! I have been following the effort since you started it, and although I have understood its purpose this post does a really great job solidifying the full rationale.
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2009, 11:20:58 AM » |
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Right, soundcards have something called a DSP chip on them which basically processes the sound enabling things to happen like slowing down, speeding up, adjusting the pitch, EQ etc. The more powerful this chip is the more things you can do to the audio all at the same time. However the DSP chip is just a chip it can't do anything by itself and needs an instruction from the software that you are using to play back the audio. Therefore you need to look at the software you are using for an EQ setting or find another piece of software that does have control over EQ. If you have no control over EQ in software than you have to add it afterwards but to do this you need to take the output of the soundcard into a mixer, say to inputs 1&2 then take the mix bus output or program output to your active speakers or to an amp and then to passive speakers. Adjusting the EQ on channels 1 & 2 of the mixing desk will then allow you to hear the effect over your speakers.
If you've already tried that and it's not working then are you sure you plugged up the mixer correctly, what mixer are you using, how does it bus audio around, where you using the correct outputs to feed your speakers, for example if you connected the speakers to the PFL out of the channel or the channel send then any EQ you apply might not be heard depending on how the mixer is bussed.
HTH
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trx
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2009, 01:28:48 PM » |
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My problem is solved had inadvertently switched off the eq on the output of the mixer so now can adjust via the mixer... Thanks for the explanation slaughteredlamb :-)
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