Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Rhythmbox Equalizer

[Matt <fisxoj gmail com>]

I would also like to point out that some of us have recordings that are, 
in fact, not mixed, or recorded in a setting where there is control over 
that sort of thing.  I listen to some artists who are recorded live (not 
professionally), so an EQ in rhythmbox would make some sense there, I think.

I definitely vote for a plugin.

-Matt

Brendan Martens wrote:
> > Please read my whole email before starting to answer it. It is clear
> > to
> > me that you have completely misunderstood my sentiments.
> >     
> I read your entire email, several times. Maybe I did not understand
> something about what you were saying, but I think I got the general
> idea, especially given the reply you just made.
>
>   
> > An EQ definitely belongs in the pipeline---at the *end*. Thankfully,
> > good sound drivers offer this functionality (My EMU10k1 driver does,
> > at
> > least).
> >
> > The responses of your audio equipment, room, ears and brain are not
> > selective, they respond in a consistent fashion. Thus having an EQ
> > just
> > for music is utterly pointless, unless you are specifically being
> > creative. 
> >     
>
> You are completely wrong here. Every single track recorded is going to
> be a little bit different than the last. More notably every album
> recorded is different. I'll stick to your assumption here that "creative
> eq" is a bad thing, given that, and that albums are all equalized
> differently in the studio, with different hardware and with a different
> set of people's ears, a different eq setting would be necessary for
> every album to achieve a "consistent" sound. So please don't say that
> having eq for music is pointless, that is just ludicrous.
>
>
>   
> > If your music is truly lacking in specific regions, then so
> > are all of your other system sounds, voice communications, etc.
> > Thankfully, an EQ at the end of the audio pipeline (e.g. in the ALSA
> > driver or in PulseAudio) alleviates this effectively. 
> >     
>
> I agree with this, it would be nice to have an eq at the end to fix
> overall issues that are associated with the audio setup, and not the
> audio source files themselves. If I had to choose just one of the two
> though (I'm not saying we do) I would go with an eq in the music player
> because I honestly don't care too much what my pidgin alerts sound like.
>