Is there an easy way to transfer my roon PEQ settings to hqplayer? For example is there a way to type them into the matrix pipeline? Maybe there is another way?
I have already tried using REW convolution text files in both roon and hqplayer but I don’t like the results at all. In my environment it throws the baby out with the bathwater solving a bass-resonance problem but sucking all the life out of the music. However, I was able to use the REW plots as a guide to much less intrusive PEQ settings. The basic problem is a base resonance at around 100Hz. So after some trial and error I found the following plot worked on just two bands:
For some reason with my speakers in my room I felt I needed to add a slight upper mid-range lift when I added bass EQ. Just enough to bring voices and solo instruments a fraction forward in the mix. Its probably a psyco-acoustic effect of the bass EQ but I don’t feel a need for it when I don’t use the bass EQ.
Of course that’s the way to do it . Much appreciated!
Just a couple of things.
I was A/Bing roon/hqplayer and I wasn’t expecting such a difference. But then I realised that I had switched off up-sampling in roon so that it would be done in hqplayer. That means that when I was doing PEQ in roon it was on redbook 44.1 which was then upsampled and filtered by hqplayer. Subjectively, the result of PEQ in roon followed by upsampling and filtering in hqplayer with these settings seemed somehow softer (and preferable) to upsampling and PEQ, both in hqplayer.
So, my question is what is the order of the DSP in hqplayer? Is the upsampling done first? When I switched on upsampling in roon and also did PEQ there, the result was similar (not quite the same) as hqplayer. But it was now all a bit electronic sounding along both paths whether in roon or hqplayer so I went back to the drawing board and with a linc-L filter and LNS15 shaper I changed the PEQ parameters to get what sounded more natural to me. No doubt as I listen to different type of music I will tinker further.
My old ears definitely seem to prefer a slight treble lift and sharp cut off filters. I am not getting any drop-outs now but maybe some of the other filters are similar to linc-L but less computationally intensive incase I want to try other things like DSD?
The other thing is what is the “type” syntax. For example high shelf and low shelf. There must be several “type” options?
Pipelines are performed at the source rate. Only exception is when source is DSD and output is PCM, then it is performed after conversio to PCM at 1/16th of the DSD source rate.
There are four different lengths of sinc-L (with >= 5.11 five), with quite wide load variations as result. So if you prefer sinc-L you can also try sinc-Lh in 5.11. But there are also bunch of poly-sinc group halfband filters as well. And of course good selection of great apodizing filters, but those are quite different.
. Much appreciated!
