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In the Thread: Digital Equalization

Post Subject: Digital EqualizationPosted by drdna on: 2/11/2009

I think this subject should be collected in its own thread. It is interesting that both Romy and I have just got the Behringer DEQ 2496 to try in our systems, so hopefully there will be some data to report here.

It was previously said that the DEQ gave a veiled sound, and Thornsten has said the same thing as well. The question is what sort of veil does it create?

Is it the harmonic structure of digitalization?

Is it the information loss of A-D to D-A conversion?

Is it the unnatural timbre of excessive parametric EQ?

Is there a more specific way to express it than "veiled?"

Further, regarding the "bad" sound of the flat EQ, it is to be expected. The recording we get is already EQ'd by the imperfect microphone frequency response AND then by engineers further EQ based on the imperfect frequency response of their studio monitors. In reality we ask our speakers at home to give a reverse EQ to give a "flat response of the original event" but I doubt it will look flat on the RTA.

This is another reason older mono recordings may have a better sound if your home speaker system is relatively flat EQ, in fact, since there was less EQ in the studio done back then.

Adrian

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