Bass, Treble, and middle settings??

[shaitsta]

Hi guys so I have stock speakers, a 12" kicker sub and a Kenwood in dash screen. Quick question what are the best settings for my treble, bass and middle?

I have my subwoofer at 7/8 out of 10. I like a lot of bass in the music but I'm just trying to see what the best settings are for treble, bass, middle.


Thanks!

 

[ecniemann]

Hi guys so I have stock speakers, a 12" kicker sub and a Kenwood in dash screen. Quick question what are the best settings for my treble, bass and middle?

I have my subwoofer at 7/8 out of 10. I like a lot of bass in the music but I'm just trying to see what the best settings are for treble, bass, middle.


Thanks!

Hard to say. Depends on personal taste, acoustics, etc. If you want to get technical with it, get a test CD with frequency test tones and calibrate it that way with a sound level meter. You can tell which frequencies require boosting or cut depending on db level. There are also correction scales to compensate for the frequency (ie. add or subtract from measured db level to "compensate" for our perceived hearing).

 

[bgibb68]

plus it also depends on what kind of music you listen to.....one graph might sound good on rap but sound like s*** on rock and so on.....

 

[ecniemann]

plus it also depends on what kind of music you listen to.....one graph might sound good on rap but sound like s*** on rock and so on.....

Yup. Like I say, personal preference. Usually you want to start with a "flat response", then tweak it to your liking using either tone control knobs, graphic EQ, or parametric EQ. All allow you to boost or cut certain frequencies, although with the tone control knobs, the frequency is pre-set that you are setting (ie. 80Hz for bass), whereas an EQ allows you to boost/cut multiple "bands", a band being a frequency. A parametric EQ allows you to select which frequency to boost or cut, but usually can't do more than one or two bands.

 

[bgibb68]

and you can also add a digital eq where you set it once and it'll automatically compensate for different genres of music