I'm using the Razer Banshee Headset, which comes with its own equalizer.Nothing wrong with vivid sound if that's your personal taste, but there's plenty wrong with clipped/overdriven sound, which can happen when it's heavily boosted with an equalizer.
Maybe its the Headset itself, which isn't exactly top notch quality, but for me the output always sounded more vivid with low volume + High equalizer settings rather than default equalizer settings + High volume. Specially the Bass. Default Bass is almost nonexistent.
If you want to get technical with your sound, try http://www.onlinetonegenerator.com.
Disable all enhancements, reset your equalizer to 0, then plug in the numbers from your equalizer (starting with 500, 250, 125...then up 1000, 2000, 4000...). Each tone should be about the same volume (except for 31 and 16000, either of which may be out of your headset's range or hearing range). Equalize to your taste.
This is a bad idea. Human hearing has a naturally unbalanced frequency perception, and pretty much all music already compensates for that somewhat, so there's no benefit in trying to make all frequencies have the same subjective volume, even as a starting point. All that will usually do is make the bass sound muddy and the higher frequencies (mainly the "air" and any hiss) uncomfortably audible.yeah you're right. Retracting the recommendation.
Nothing wrong with vivid sound if that's your personal taste, but there's plenty wrong with clipped/overdriven sound, which can happen when it's heavily boosted with an equalizer.
Seriously, if you're using a Windows laptop, disable the audio enhancements from Dolby/DTS/Bang&Olufsen/whatever. The "enhancements" are meant for laptop speakers, which can lead to reduced bass for headphones from my experience. Also try to minimize the number of Razer enhancements, if there are any. The best enhancement imo is simply raising the volume.
Even a headset like that should have decent bass without needing an equalizer (I hope). That being said, ZUN tends not to use a lot of bass in his music.
There are a few kinda-bassy songs though. Luna Dial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1nRuWqW09Q), The Space Shrine Maiden Appears (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjqMcIDHO0k), The Fairy's Adventurous Tale (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdG-5Fix88c). The bass should be there and about the same volume of the other instruments, but it shouldn't be pounding.If you want to get technical with your sound, try http://www.onlinetonegenerator.com.
Disable all enhancements, reset your equalizer to 0, then plug in the numbers from your equalizer (starting with 500, 250, 125...then up 1000, 2000, 4000...). Each tone should be about the same volume (except for 31 and 16000, either of which may be out of your headset's range or hearing range). Equalize to your taste.
Thanks for all the info. I tried what you guys recommended, disabled all sound equalizer and enhancers and just pumped up the volume. Indeed the sound output was better without the equalizer.Glad it worked out. Remember to be careful with the volume; loud music is fun, but listening to loud things for hours at a time is bad for the ears.
The problem is with the Headset itself. The headphones are not sealed/isolated (they are detachable and are put together plastic with plastic, so there is a small "window" where sound escape from), so it end up being like speakers really closed to your ear. Heck, even at low volumes other people can hear what I'm listening to. Consequently in order to utilize all the quality from the headset there is the need to use somewhat high volumes.