(jgreen glances around nervously, startled to discover that the entire auditorium is staring at him, waiting. He stands up, tentatively.)
Well, (cough, cough), the genius in the program is really owing to scthom's briliant simplicity. (jgreen nods in the direction of scthom). All I did was make one off-hand comment about a database of EQ settings, and scthom did everything else. (Brief applause at the mention of scthom, always the crowd favorite. jgreen misinterprets this as encouragement, and soldiers on).
Originally, all I was hoping for was a method to fine-tune the replay gain settings. I thought that 90% ot the time they were fine, but a few seemed to make odd choices between max amplitude and average amplitude, and I wanted to trust my ears, not the computer. So my original request to scthom, in the form of "Wouldn't it be nice if . . .", was for a way to introduce basic replay gain adjustment, along with maybe a handful of genre-related presets, and the ability to apply them to individual tracks.
Of course, what he came up with, EQdb, goes way beyond that . . . .
(The noise of the crowd coughing and impatiently checking their watches is so thunderous that jgreen can plausibly misinterpret it as an ovation. He bows repeatedly, oblivious to the fights breaking out at the exits.)
Dude--
Like scthom says, try it first with a handful of genre-based EQ setting. You can load the Mc preset for "Rock" in on an appropriate song, and then EQdb will save it off. Once it's in the db, you can copy/paste to all the rock songs in your library, as defined in your "genre" field. And so on with "classical" and whatnot.
Then, you can make sub-genre adjustments. On any rock song, where the "rock" preset loads automatically, you can use the MC EQ GUI to make per-track adjustments interactively, which EQdb will save off automatically. Say the vocals are too hot--bring down the mids. Or the bass thumps too loudly--bass down. In this way, I "remixed" a lot of songs which I enjoyed but where the mix was (IMO) too obnoxious.
Remember, none of these changes are destructive. They can easily be altered, reset to default, or un-applied during any particluar playback. The flexibilty is brilliant!
Ultimately, I ended up employing a "chain" where the MC parametric EQ did the global, or room correction, and EQdb did per-track remixes. It's like "launch control" for audio!
IMO, EQdb is core audio functionality for the digital audiophile. Or would be, if I could get v.2 to load on my machine.
But never fear! (jgreen chuckles hollowly.) No reason to panic--I'm sure it'll all get worked out eventually . . . .
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