EQ settings and what they do

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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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40hz is the thumping sub

63hz is the kicking sub

100hz is the punching sub, the knocking sub, and the middle high bass. Lower male voice.

160hz is the higher bass, the end of the sub and into the regular woofer.

250hz is the middle-bottom sound of many normal instruments, the tip top of any bass frequencies, and a bit above the thunk of a snare.

500hz is like, the thwock of a clap or rimshot.

1000hz is the clarity excitement point of almost everything.

1.6kz is the same thing just higher

2.5kz is the tip top of the mid frequencies (in music! speech therapists have their own BS concept of lows and highs. Fight me). A lot of metallic sounds start here.

4kz is where a lot of S’s, T’s, F’s, etc get their definition. Scratchy noises live here.

Everything above this is various metallic cutting frequencies, sheens, and overtones. Some small metal instruments start above 4k.

NOTE that I am saying where the instruments’ lower sound “starts” or has a “fundamental”. By start I mean reading the sound as frequencies from left to right, bass to highs. All those instruments have overtones that is *most of their sound*. In fact if you cut the bottom, you would certainly still recognize the instrument but if you cut above that fundamental, you probably wouldn’t.

That’s crazy that your car has such a detailed EQ, given that the car stereo should already be pre-EQ’d to balance the car and a 3 band shelf is generally enough to slant the frequency balance to correct for taste or hearing impairment etc.

The top and bottom EQs are probably shelfs that respectively extend all the way up or down to cover the bookends.

What car is it?

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