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"Tagged" EQ PreSets - Possible?
soap:
A negative of making them cumulative all the way down is that you can not put a rock.eq in your rock tree and a Led Zeppelin .eq in your Led Zeppelin branch of the tree with out them both being applied.
1- My hand would be forced to think of the LedZeppelin.eq not as a .eq all its own, but as a tweak to rock.eq which itself is a tweak of the hardware .cfg. Pretty soon you're working only on a tweak of a tweak of a tweak, and confusion mounts.
2 -I don't want to have to worry about which .eq files might be found in the hierarchy and applied unintentionally.
"Why even do cumulative to the hardware EQ if [not cumulative .eq files]"
Because if you change headphones you (manually) change .cfg files, and the next track to get played out of the buffer will (automatically) pull its associated .eq file out of the buffer.
Changing hardware (either through swapping of headphones or the usage of the same directory structure on multiple players) is the strongest reason to have cumulative .eq to the .cfg.
"while cumulative would allow you much more freedom for adjusting the sound of your whole collection as tastes change or other needs change, while having to alter an absolute minimum of files."
I think you're looking East while I'm looking West.
If LedZeppelin.eq and rock.eq get added to my Stairway To Heaven, then if I ever change rock.eq I'm going to have to change LedZeppelin.eq as well! (if not ACDC.eq and Rush.eq, etc)
Why would I bother making a band-specific .eq file if it did not produce the exact results I wanted? In my thinking the only reason rock.eq exists is as a generic "boost" for artists / albums I have not yet made a specific .eq for yet.
Llorean:
In my book, the "Physical Graffiti" EQ would be for example to take into account (in theory) some wrong mastering of the album in the re-release, so perhaps lower treble, while the "Rock" EQ would sate my need for all Rock songs to have a healthy portion of thumping bass.
Therefor if i ever decided I don't need overpowering bass in the future, I could edit Rock.eq to lower the bass, without having to go in and edit the one for the specific album as well, as it only exists as to correct mastering problems.
Basically, I'm really only talking three tiers, "Hardware", "User preference for this category (genre?)" and "Fixing mastering problems" though I think the system should extend to an arbitrary number of levels if it's going to go that far.
This is more or less because Febs mentioned that a lot of his digital downloads are of varying quality, so it seems like you'd need to correct this independently of altering the EQ to meet your tastes, and that should be independently as well of the overall "Hardware" EQ.
soap:
Something I just thought of - and something which I think we all have been skipping is - if EQ settings a cumulative - they will have to be identical in all but gain.
Center / cutoff and Q values will need to be exactly the same.
Llorean:
Ah, very good point. Perhaps flexibility will have to be sacrificed, and just forget about cumulative at all.
soap:
*cough*.cfg files in playlists*cough*
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