Stereo EQ

[aargl]

I know this feature has very little probability to get implemented, but having a different EQ on each ear would allow me to balance and get a nearly perfect stereo panorama:
My right ear perception is globally a few dB below the left ear, but more precisely has got a 5KHz "hole".
Believe it or not, I'm a sound tech and my only problem is for mixing cymbals and the like, when it deals with space position, I need to use an headphone and swap ears to check things.
When dealing with mp3 players, the frustration is more obvious and the balance — though being a great thing! — unbalances the rest of the spectrum... 

[saratoga]

I think this is obscure enough that its unlikely to happen. 

[MEMEs]

hi there,

any news on this topic?

This is exactly what i am looking for

I have a hole in the low frequency in my left ear

thank

ps: sorry for the bump nut i'm quite desperate to get a fix, i can't normally listen to music anymore since i got the hole in my hearing it's really frustrating

[saratoga]

I don't even remember posting in this topic the first time.

[AlexP]

There is no news, nobody is working on it.  If someone were to it'd have to be a pretty clever UI to get integrated IMO.

[AlexMiseler]

... it'd have to be a pretty clever UI to get integrated IMO.

I also had "this would make the EQ UI crazy complicated" as first reaction, but on 2nd thought there is a simple and elegant solution. All that is needed (UI-wise) is a simple menu where EQ presets can be assigned to channels. This way the fairly complex EQ UI wouldn't need to be changed at all.

[saratoga]

Yeah I think that could be made to work. But then again few people would want it so I don't know if anyone would care enough to implement it.

[[Saint]]

All that is needed (UI-wise) is a simple menu where EQ presets can be assigned to channels. This way the fairly complex EQ UI wouldn't need to be changed at all.

You have a pretty weird idea of simple, from my perspective.

The sane solution, as I see it, would be to double up on the settings entries and have one each for left and right (this is actually rather simple to achieve, too). Having individual presets for each channel (which is a terrible idea, if you ask me) is messy, there's no need to split the presets into their respective channels.

Regardless how sane or non-sane the UI for this is, I think it is rather unlikely to make it in - it is a rather obscure use case which allows people that don't know what they are doing to potentially double the CPU usage of the EQ which virtually no one understands how to use correctly in the first place.


[Saint]

[soap]

As a stop-gap for users suffering auditory defects might I suggest a global EQ correction be applied to the copy of your music files on your portable player through the use of a tool like Foobar2000?