While a thumping low beat may be de rigueur when you're blasting tunes in your car or dancing in a club, when you're listening to audio files or watching a video on your MacBook, you might find that the bass is too heavy. Free preinstalled applications that play media files on your MacBook have controls that you can adjust until you get the frequencies more to your liking.
An equalizer permits you to alter the levels of various frequencies in your music, allowing you to boost low sounds, lower high sounds, or anything in between.
iTunes
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Step 1
Launch iTunes, an application that plays MP3 audio files and video podcasts.
Step 2
Click on 'Window,' then choose 'Equalizer.' The iTunes equalizer window pops up.
Step 3
Click the checkbox to turn on the equalizer, then click on the settings pull-down menu. Select 'Bass Reducer' from the list. The low-frequency sliders automatically adjust to a lower setting. Drag them even lower to reduce the bass further; the menu listing changes to 'Manual' to reflect that you are making a customized setting.
Step 1
Start up the DVD Player application.
Step 2
Click on 'Window,' then choose 'Audio Equalizer.' The DVD player's equalizer settings window opens.
Step 3
Click on the checkbox to turn it on, then click on a lower-frequency slider control and drag it down. Repeat this until you have lowered the five sliders on the left sufficiently to turn down the bass to your liking.
Step 1
Launch QuickTime, Apple's video player. Click on 'QuickTime Player,' then click on 'About QuickTime Player' to find out what version you are running. The latest installed version is QuickTime 10, which has fewer settings options than previous releases. Besides volume, there is no audio control in QuickTime 10, so you can't adjust the bass settings. However, the Snow Leopard install disc comes with an older version, QuickTime 7, for people who want to use more features. You can also download QuickTime 7 for free from Apple (see 'Resources').
Step 2
Launch QuickTime 7, click on 'Window' and select 'Show A/V Controls.'
Step 3
Click on the bass slider and drag it to the left to turn down the bass.
Step 1
Start up GarageBand, Apple's music-making application, and open an existing audio project or create a new one.
Step 2
Click on the 'Visual EQ' equalizer's on/off box, located in the settings panel on the right side of the GarageBand window, to activate it. The box turns green to indicate that the equalizer is on.
Step 3
Click on the equalizer's pull-down menu and select 'Reduce Bass Boom' to turn down the bass playback of your music project.
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Part 1. Adjust Spotify Equalizer on Mobile Devices
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Custom equalizer setting is a great option to personalize output Spotify audio tracks, which allows users to preset the audio settings to get favorite music sounds on devices. Equalizer for Spotify is available for both Android and iOS mobile apps. To change equalizer on Spotify, you don't need to download and use third-party software but for Spotify app only. Here's how you can enable an equalizer for Spotify on iOS and Android.
Spotify Equalizer on iOS
Step 1. Open Spotify app on your iPhone, navigate to Your Library tab in the lower-right corner and touch the Setting button at the top-right corner.
Step 2. In the setting window, you need to select Playback and then you will see there is an Equalizer option. Please tap the toggle to turn on the equalizer.
Step 3. You will see a list of preset equalizers for different types of music. In Spotify's case, 60Hz to 150Hz corresponds to the bass, 400Hz to 1KHz the midrange, and 2.4KHz to 15kHz to the treble. You can start to adjust the music preferences to the right one with best sounds by dragging the little white dots.
Step 4. When all settings are ready, just touch a preset to apply them, and you can get back to the home screen and listen to Spotify music in most suitable taste.
Spotify Equalizer on Android
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Step 1. Launch Spotify app on your Android phone. And you can hit on the 'Library' tab on your bottom-right hand corner to choose Setting option.
Step 2. In the Music Quality section, please scroll down to Equalizer button and click on it. It will pop up a prompt and you can just click OK to skip it.
Step 3. Android manufactures allows users to install and use your own equalizer instead of using Spotify's equalizer. You just need to choose the favorite equalizer to start adjusting music preferences.
Step 4. Please keep the Equalizer turned on and find which best suits you. When done, you can start to listen to nice audio quality on Spotify app.