Graphic equaliser for Win 10

Dazstoke · 4 Mar 2021 at 19:55

My pc has a 2.1 speaker set up which is rather bass heavy.The audio is provided by VIA HD 20H2.
Is there anyway of adding some tone control or a graphic equaliser ? There is nothing built in.
Thanks

danoliver1 · 4 Mar 2021 at 20:30

https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/
And https://sourceforge.net/projects/peace-equalizer-apo-extension/

Demon · 9 Mar 2021 at 08:39

+1 for EqualiserAPO, a bit of a faff to initially setup and configure, but actually once installed it just seems to work!

Dazstoke · 9 Mar 2021 at 10:03

I had a quick look at those links but it seems to be over complicated for my needs

EsaT · 9 Mar 2021 at 18:06

Dazstoke said:
I had a quick look at those links but it seems to be over complicated for my needs

Peace extension has very good youtube videos.
You cna also adjust frequency bands from graph view after checking couple options there.
https://www.youtube.com/user/PeterVerbeek66

Dazstoke · 10 Mar 2021 at 16:52

I've installed it,wasn't difficult at all lol.
Do I need to start it every time a boot my pc ?
Ignore that I see you can set that in the settings.
Cheers guys

Jimbo Mahoney · 27 Apr 2021 at 17:52

I tried APO but it just would not work with my setup (yes, I tried a lot of troubleshooting options and googling).

I ended up buying Boom3D and it. just. works.

Very happy - can finally get the balance right between bass / mids / treble. Since I'm just using a budget-ish 2.1 setup, the mids and bass are much too heavy and treble lacking.

Music sounds like it should (or damn close) to my Sennheiser SP25 / NAD / Dynaudio setup.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 8 May 2021 at 18:42

Jimbo Mahoney said:
I tried APO but it just would not work with my setup (yes, I tried a lot of troubleshooting options and googling).

I ended up buying Boom3D and it. just. works.

Very happy - can finally get the balance right between bass / mids / treble. Since I'm just using a budget-ish 2.1 setup, the mids and bass are much too heavy and treble lacking.

Music sounds like it should (or damn close) to my Sennheiser SP25 / NAD / Dynaudio setup.

APO is system wide. Not sure how it couldn’t work.

At least you found something.

Demon · 9 May 2021 at 08:49

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
APO is system wide. Not sure how it couldn’t work.

At least you found something.

APO is a faff and there are many reasons it may not work, or is so confusing to people that they understandably get lost..
e.g. https://appuals.com/how-to-fix-equalizer-apo-not-working-on-windows-10/

I prefer APO and did run into issues on my main PC but did get it sorted in the end.