Oh man, that would be great! I should be able to dial everything in with the help of the manual and youtube
Thanks to everyone again, really appreciate you taking the time!
Okay, I ran an Auto-EQ that I feel should suffice. There will be 10-bands here (I wanted to future-proof you if you happen to get a device in the future, or want to run EQ on your phone or PC that has support for more bands).
One thing to keep in mind, you can use the first 5, and ignore the latter 5. But if you're going to run all 10 in the future, you must use all 10 at the same time.
Okay, I'm going to try and make this super simple since it seemed like you needed a primer on what's going on.
As a quick primer, our hearing is measured in Hz or kHz (1kHz is simply 1000Hz). Our hearing ranges from approximately 10Hz to 20kHz (20,000Hz). To understand what things sound like in what range, just have a quick glance at this image. When someone is talking about "bass" you can see approximately that's anything between 10Hz to 200Hz. And if anyone is talking about treble, well, you get the idea. When we EQ stuff, we're changing what parts get more louder or less. So if you have headphones that have no bass, you can give them some boost, or lower the rest of the range to make the bass "stick out" more in the sound being played. That's what we're going to do now. There's positive and negative value. So if we want 200Hz to sound more pronounced, we can add +5dB (measure of volume), and that will make that more pronounced. Or we can do -10dB if we really don't want to hear 200Hz sounds too much.
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Bold the letters that correspond to the abbreviated letters you will see on your RME DAC's EQ.
Band means simply one of the 5 bands we can control on the RME's Parametric EQ. (Again just use the first 5 I provide, and only use 10 if you really want to in software that supports 10 or more bands.
The
Gain means how much "volume" we're adding or removing to the certain frequency.
The
Frequency means which part of the spectrum of Hertz we're going to be raising or lowering.
The
Q-factor, is how sharply we want to effect that frequency (lower Q factor will allow for frequencies next to our intended one to also be affected a little bit, while higher Q factor tries to affect the frequencies around our primary one, a bit less). It's a bit more complex, but I'm really just trying to keep it super simple. Also the RME doesn't have the precision I will be providing. If you notice this, and can't dial it in exactly, don't worry it's not a big deal. Simply round up or down as you see fit.
You will see something saying "PK Fc", you can ignore that for now, but know that it's the sort of approach to each frequency we're taking. This PK Fc is simply referred to as a Peak filter (the simplest) and resembles the little squiggly triangle on screen all the way to the right in the little grey box. Meaning we're going to be simply raising/lowering the frequency we want, and not doing anything special. There are other filter band types like "shelf" that will raise everything before and up to the point of the frequency you want. But those we won't be using. So just make sure, your frequency's are all peak types for now, you can confirm that if your DAC shows the little grey box with a upward triangle-like little image in the lower right grey box, next to the Q value on the DAC's screen.
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Preamp: -6.8 dB (RME DAC takes care of this on it's own, don't worry too much about this, it's a setting found in other EQ devices that allows for safe boosting of frequencies, so you don't push values too high. If you see this, use it, but on the RME, there's no setting for this) If you're paranoid about "clipping" (driving too much frequency boosting so to speak in this situation), simply keep your RME at -7dB max volume whenever you have the EQ engaged.
Band 1: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: -2.2 dB ---
Frequency: 143 Hz ---
Q: 0.28
Band 2: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: -3.4 dB ---
Frequency: 945 Hz ---
Q: 1.40
Band 3: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: -2.3 dB ---
Frequency: 2740 Hz ---
Q: 4.52
Band 4: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: +6.9 dB ---
Frequency: 3752 Hz ---
Q: 1.76
Band 5: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: +1.7 dB ---
Frequency: 10679 Hz ---
Q: 2.36
(Use the following with the first 5 bands only if you have software that allows for this many bands, otherwise ignore as previously mentioned)
Band 6: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: -0.9 dB ---
Frequency: 1304 Hz ---
Q: 4.76
Band 7: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: +2.0 dB ---
Frequency: 2024 Hz ---
Q: 5.96
Band 8: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: +2.3 dB ---
Frequency: 4686 Hz ---
Q: 4.79
Band 9: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: -4.3 dB ---
Frequency: 6100 Hz---
Q: 2.52
Band 10: ON PK Fc ---
Gain: +3.7 dB ---
Frequency: 7133 Hz ---
Q: 3.68
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Now none of this is set in stone. You have the two knobs on the RME (the two on the right side of the device) to dial in some more bass or treble to your liking (either +6, or -6 in 0.5dB increments to your preference). You can also experiment with the first 5 bands and change the Gain values as you please if you find something that works better for you.
Good luck, and tell me if you have any further trouble.
