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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Human hearing is roughly 20Hz-20kHz
The lower numbers are bass and the high numbers are treble.
A 13-band EQ allows you to more precisely dial-in the sound compared to a 2-band (bass & treble) or 3 band (bass, mids, and treble) EQ can offer.
However, if you don’t have measurement gear then it’s difficult to determine which bands to use. If you want to play with it, I’d hook up your phone and place a frequency sweep video on YouTube thru your car system, and whatever frequencies sound too soft or loud then find where they are most close to one of the 13 bands and boost/reduce the level accordingly. Meaning if at 6000Hz it sounds too sharp then on the 6.3k band turn it down.
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