mvw2
20.10.2008, 07:56
Well I kind of stumbled across this in the past, but I didn't fiddle with it much to really notice how bad it really was.
I ran the EQ for quite some time in the combined L+R form, and all works fine. The boosts/cuts work as they should.
More recently I started playing with independent left and right EQing. I initially thought there was a time delay issue that was causing most of my problems. This was somewhat confirmed by a Ural staff response. When the EQ is active, it goes through a processor, and this would effectively cause delay. This might be noticeable if you have no EQ for one side but EQ on the other. ....maybe.
Upon further, recent investigation, it has come to my attention that the seperate left and right EQ, if seperate from each other in setting, will not function correctly. In fact it seems so bad that the EQ is almost unusable. The range from full to negative infinity for any EQ band barely does anything. Output changes somewhat but not more than a few dB. When it does change, it seems to screw up the whole frequency response too.
An example:
L+R equal
If you cut everything from 2kHz up, setting everything to negative infinity, all output will be cut on both speakers. They will play up to 2kHz and then no output above that.
L and R not equal, ex. setting L 5dB higher then R.
If I cut everything from 2kHz up on both L and R, I still get all the information playing above 2kHz at nearly full volume, only slightly quieter. It simply doesn't work the same way. The dB scale is way off. The range is not there. You can't boost or cut in any effective manner.
There are some other weird aspects it seems to do, but I simply haven't played with it enough to list out everything in detail.
The simple matter of fact is that the EQ is broken when you run the left and right channels separate from each other. This is a feature I would much like to have, so it has become annoying for me.
I ran the EQ for quite some time in the combined L+R form, and all works fine. The boosts/cuts work as they should.
More recently I started playing with independent left and right EQing. I initially thought there was a time delay issue that was causing most of my problems. This was somewhat confirmed by a Ural staff response. When the EQ is active, it goes through a processor, and this would effectively cause delay. This might be noticeable if you have no EQ for one side but EQ on the other. ....maybe.
Upon further, recent investigation, it has come to my attention that the seperate left and right EQ, if seperate from each other in setting, will not function correctly. In fact it seems so bad that the EQ is almost unusable. The range from full to negative infinity for any EQ band barely does anything. Output changes somewhat but not more than a few dB. When it does change, it seems to screw up the whole frequency response too.
An example:
L+R equal
If you cut everything from 2kHz up, setting everything to negative infinity, all output will be cut on both speakers. They will play up to 2kHz and then no output above that.
L and R not equal, ex. setting L 5dB higher then R.
If I cut everything from 2kHz up on both L and R, I still get all the information playing above 2kHz at nearly full volume, only slightly quieter. It simply doesn't work the same way. The dB scale is way off. The range is not there. You can't boost or cut in any effective manner.
There are some other weird aspects it seems to do, but I simply haven't played with it enough to list out everything in detail.
The simple matter of fact is that the EQ is broken when you run the left and right channels separate from each other. This is a feature I would much like to have, so it has become annoying for me.