My car has a 13-band EQ (40 Hz, 63 Hz, 100 Hz, 160 Hz, 250 Hz, 500 Hz, 1.0 kHz, 1.6 kHz, 2.5 kHz, 4.0 kHz, 6.3 kHz, 10 kHz, and 16 kHz.)
Could someone please explain what each of those bands means? What do they correspond to? (highs, mids, lows, bass, vocals, different instruments, etc.)
Thanks!
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All great responses. Here is the why and a how.
No space is the same when it comes to sound generation. Just as you tune your instruments, you turn your amplifier and speakers for the space it is in. The objects in the space as well as the construction of the space itself will attenuate certain bands of sound from speakers. If you have carpet and a 160 Gallon fishtank in your area vs tile floor, it will make a difference in how things sound.
If you have like a music studio, you want that area turned perfectly flat across the spectrum. To do something like this you play white noise through the speakers and then put a microphone where you would be sitting, listening, and you observe the spectrum the microphone is picking up. You will see something other than white noise coming back which is everything in the room messing with the frequencies. You then use your eq until the microphone reads white noise as well (flat across the spectrum) and you have turned your speakers and amp to produce a perfectly flat spectrum in that specific space.
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