How do you set the EQ on your car/truck stereo?

It depends how fast I'm driving.






But, most of the time I leave it disengaged so it's all zero'd out.

I adore bass, but not in the car rumbling my windows and bothering whoever pulls up beside me.  I have a Bose audio system in my car and I heart it greatly.  Bass set one click below mid and treble two clicks up (I'm a Soprano, I like treble, too, what can I say?)

(I'm a Soprano, I like treble, too, what can I say?)

Hey... in HS and college (voice major) I was a 1st tenor... sort of the same for a guy. I used to really love chamber chorus. Good times.


J

I have a old 2001 Odyssey. It seems to treat sound pretty well with the stock speakers and the cheapest SONY CD player I could find at Best Buy.


best,
mike

jbow


I have a Pioneer Premier in dash CD player, 8 or 9 years old. I need to update to something I can hhook an i-pod to and that is XM/Sirrius ready... but that is another story.

What I wonder is how you set the bass/mid/treble. I have always run one of  two ways. Either Loudness on with the bass on 2 mid on 1 and treble on 4 or 5.. OR Loudness off with bass on 3 or 4 mid on 1 and treble on 4 or 5. It also has a frong speaker enhancement thing that I use sometimes, according to the CD or whatever.

Lately I have been leaning more toward Loud off with bass settings the same but I have been bumping the mids to 3 and lowering the treble to 3 or even 2.

What do you do, I know it changes from CD to CD or song to song according to mastering or if it is from the early 70s or 2000+

Any thoughts on settings.... also not to derail but I am interested in a new in dash player that will accomodate all the new tech. Recommend?

Thanks, 

Julien

I drive a 14 year old Volvo V70XC, it has a "Volvo System" I'm sure they didn't design themselves. Never touch the faders.

In my GMC Sierra, the bass is overwhelming. It's the stock GM radio, but if you look real close, it's the same speakers as the Bose system upgrade. You just don't get the logo, and the Bose amp's.

It has digital controls so imagine a slider ranger from 0 (Lowest Setting) to 100 (Highest Setting). I have the bass set to 25, midrange set to 48, and treble set to 54. It's how I determine how my personal CD's are done. If I can listen while driving through town at the same volume and EQ settings without being compelled to adjust anything, I call it done.

I've often wished I could rig something up somehow to master my CD's in the driver seat of my truck. I know it sounds crazy, but it's dead silent, it's a tight space with very little surrounding area influence, especially without the engine running, and in the garage there are no outside sounds.

I imagine if my radio had an external input (it's old and doesn't have any inputs), I could throw Sound Forge or Sonar on a laptop and do it that way in the truck.

I also have a Honda Fit. The proprietary factory stereo (meaning it's part of the dash and nothing else will fit there but the OEM stereo), is 200watts, and kicks freakin' ass! It plays MP3's, WMA's, CD's, and has an 1/8" input. The new Fit's have a USB input standard! Unfortunately, this thing will last me 30 years so I'll never get one. I set it flat and crank away.

Honda is so awesome. They thought ahead with the CD player. They put a little micro fiber brush where the CD slides in so it catches most of the dust. I lived on a gravel road for years. I had the truck and the Fit about the same amount of time. I destroyed two CD players because of dust in the truck, none in the Fit.

Thanks everyone... 
and Jon..
if you drove that thing...
and if you were my neighbor... 
I would probably shoot you sooner or later, probably sooner. Well, at least I'd destroy your speakers.

I actually went out armed a couple of nights last year around 11:00 PM looking for whoever was pumping bass, it turned out to be some huge dump trucks working on a paving job on hwy 41. They have some sort of vibration thing that helps empty the truck but a half mile away it sounds like some big bass speakers... I was mad as he77. 
I'm glad it was dump trucks... my family needs me, at least I think they do..

Again, thanks everyone. I think I will futz around with flat some more, maybe kick the treble up a little because of my old ears too.

J

Flat ....


If it was up to me I would make everyone only listen to flat monitors and ban ear buds and mp3 and make it illegal and a 2000 dollar fine if caught with a non flat monitor and an mp3 and ear buds 


Seriously though ...everything I eq flat in my car and it's some sorta Sony system with a USB to my WAVE only iPod 

How do I set the EQ?  With the little buttons.

bapu


Mooch,

What's the fine for calling stereo mono?

AT least a billion dollars and one swift kick in the ass with a steel toe flip flop 

 
The system in my car is a stock unbranded built in 'Infotainment' (what a vile word ) unit that combines a CD player/radio and Sat Nav. It has eight speakers all in all built into the doors (1 driver, 1 tweeter in each) and sounds pretty good for a stock system.
 
I generally find that I leave the treble boosted to around 40 - 50% to cut through the road noise, and I adjust the bass from about +10% - + 80% according to the CD I'm listening to. It sounds pretty lifeless with the EQ set flat, but a little adjusting does improve the sound significantly. And it's quite loud too, and doesn't distort at higher volumes.
 
One really neat feature is that it 'remembers' different EQ settings for CD, FM radio and AM radio. For CD the settings are much as described about, with FM stations I have the treble pulled down and the bass generally a little higher, and for AM stations (mainly 5Live and Talksport, which are both 'talk' radio) I have a big treble boost and the bass set flat, or even slightly cut.
 
My Vectra's engine is a really quiet V6 Turbo so with all the windows up and travelling at urban speeds, it's quite a pleasant listening environment. The biggest distraction at higher speeds in defintely tyre/road noise, but to compensate for this, the player automatically starts increasing the volume of the music (by a user-determinable amount) as the car rises above a certain speed.
 
I seem to remember that an older version of RealPlayer allowed you to burn CDs and/or mp3 discs that were automatically EQ'd to sound better on car stereos. Does that ring a bell with anyone? I never tried it, either because it was a premium feature (i.e. they charged for it) or because I couldn't be arsed.
 
 
 
 

Bose factory system with 8 speakers all run with fiber optics. It has a "Driver Optimization" setting that self adjusts faders and balance so it sounds best for me. It sounds so good and clear, that I am always picking up new sounds on older stuff that I never noticed before. I set it "flat" for the eq. It's just how I roll.

Randy

flat as a pancake.

It depends on the car and the unit.

You know I was thinking about this last night and I think I got jipped!


I put the key in the iginition (at least the times I can remember) and the music (and voices) start automatically.........

I dont have to do a thing!...........but then I have no control over it either!

My choices are either continue onward with what I have or bike it!

Clifford