Stereo Tool

Might you include labels for the center frequencies of each band we're working with?
i.e. 60Hz, 120Hz, 240Hz, 510Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, 3.5kHz, etc.?

Or, list it in your documentation somewhere - what each band actually is?

I am trying to pinpoint one little nuance. Being able to "work the math" would help me substantially so that I know what I am actually adjusting!

Thanks

I'll give you the numbers here... I'll add them somewhere else later.

Bands are:
1 - 43 Hz
2 - 86 Hz
3 - 172 Hz
4 - 344 Hz
5 - 688 Hz
6 - 1.375 kHz
7 - 2.75 kHz
8 - 5.5 kHz
9 - 10.0 kHz
10 - 16.0 kHz

Basically, starting at band 10 at 22.05 kHz, then divide by 2 for every band. But the two topmost bands are slightly different (because people complained they could hardly hear a difference when changing the 22.05 kHz slider).

Thank you for these. With just this knowledge, I made my preset sound 1000%, no, 1000000% better for aacPlus conditioning.

Now it's time for business (not real business - the business I am in for myself for convincing myself that I can defeat that CODEC's quirks at low bitrates!).

Is it me or is the q factor really high of this eq?

Ehm, what do you mean by that?

If you mean that the frequency response of each band is very steep, that's true - I needed that to be able to filter out artifacts caused by the clipping filter. So you should avoid large differences between adjacent frequency bands.

maybe an idea to implement a input EQ. let's say a 5 band PEQ (and shelving)

I would like to make some colouring on the audio.
But this EQ is not workable for that. It is just for loosing strange artifacts.

If you want to have the eq settings performed before (most of) the rest of the processing, turn on "Before multiband". Then the equalizing is done BEFORE the multiband compressor.

(By the way: By "loosing strange artifacts", do you mean "causing" instead of loosing? Like I said, keep adjacent equalizer bars close to each other, and in general, keep all the values between 0.5 and 2.0. The values are not decibels! So 2.0 means +6 dB, 0.5 means -6 dB.

If you are using the equalizers combined with the Loudness filter, especially if you are using it for FM processing (pre-emphasis), you may get other artifacts if the coloring of the audio deviates far from the default settings. (Especially if you increase the high frequencies).