I don't listen to music because I think it should all sound the way I would prefer it to sound. Not only is it probably impossible, but frankly, I feel like turning that album into a modern, slick, masterpiece is a pointless endeavour - by the time you're done it will no longer be the same music with the same effect. I invite anyone to try and EQ that Burzum album in such a way that it will sound good by modern production standards. The vocals were done on a headset mic found in the studio) (Guitars on this album were recorded into a bunch of fuzz pedals and a hifi. Some, like this Burzum album, were intentionally recorded terribly, for effect. Some of them are due to a lack of budget for a good recording studio/engineer. EQ, phase correction, BBE Sonic Maximisers, Exciter Plugins, Compressors, etc.Īt the end of the day you cannot polish an audio turd. No amount of processing will turn a badly recorded guitar into a well recorded one. One of the key tenets in obtaining a good quality recording is to start with a good source. Speaking from a music production standpoint: You can use probably any VST plugin with a Windows VST Host utility. I havent found anything better for sound quality. However, it loads the last saved setup or the last setup you shut down with, so be sure to save often.īit of a pita to get it into a useable state but its the nads!

It will still work exactly as you set it and doesnt give any nags when playing music.

You will make a right mess of things until you get used to it.Īfter you have fiddled with it for a while (can be hours sometimes), it will put up a banner and wont let you make any more changes until it is restarted.

In some ways its rudimentary, in others its very advanced. There is a copy button that lets you press an A|B button, make changes to one and quickly flick between them to hear the difference. You can also add more stages in between that are completely floating (not tied to a single frequency band) but I cant for the life of me remember how lol. You can use any preset to model the number EQ bands you want, I used the 30 stage one, its ace.Īs you move the sliders it shows a curve of the actual response you will get. Its a VST plugin so needs a VST wrapper, I use this one with Foobar2000 It has lots of demo settings to sample and you can create your own EQ from one and save it under a basic save system. The downside is that you cant buy it any more, there is only a free demo version which is what I use. I'm using it with extremely good kit with WASAPI. There is the most awesome EQ that is very comprehensive, shows you the actual true response of the EQ and it doesnt reduce sound quality perceptibly.

Assuming you are after EQing music with good quality:

Foobar2000 graphic equalizer presets