There's a subwoofer slider (around the icon) if the bass feels too heavy, and some songs require it to be toned down if it's already processed to be bass-boosted.

My Jabra headphones don't seem to apply any processing by default, and I prefer how they sound with the processing. If your headphones already boost bass or apply another effect, stacking the processing can be grating (which I've experienced when I record a video and play that through the daemon running).

I guess it's a matter of taste. I just like music sounding as though it's coming from a little farther away, and I suppose the bass-boost might be what you're finding unpleasant.

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ryankrage77 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Seems to depend on the source audio too. The demo at the top of the page sounded good, but in the demo at the end I tried some rock music that already has a pretty wide stereo image, and it made it sound very 'squished' and like it was coming from inside my head, on top of lots of weird distortion/phase issues.

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epestr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

That sounds intriguing. I've only noticed it making sounds feel wider, or at most do nothing rather than squishing an already wide sounding track. What track were you trying, I'll see what's going on.

	▲	ryankrage77 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It was 'Square Hammer' by Ghost.

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tancop 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah the default bass boost is too much. I set it to point straight left and its sounds way better.

	▲	epestr 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I skipped this detail in the blog, but the spatial filter in the original processor already had bass boosting within the effect which I carried over and interpolate (non-linearly of course) now. I've made the default 20% in the page for now.