Newbie - Equalizer question, mainly

[AdamK]

Hello,

As someone who loves music, I want the best sound I can get out of my new smartphone (Moto G 3rd Gen) and downloaded the Neutron app because I read, somewhere, that it was the best. I'm beginning to fear, however, that I may be over my head. I came onto the forum to ask a question or two but, looking down the list of subject headers on the forum board, I don't even understand these, so I may come across like a total idiot. So, here goes nothing...

The Equalizer in Neutron: I'm not technically smart enough to understand how equalizers work or how to set up my own settings, so I was hoping there'd be pre-sets on Neutron: Are there? I looked at the ones I could find, but they all look remarkably similar, and sound very much the same, as if these are just names and I'm expected to set them up to reflect them.

thanks, and apologies if this is a really stupid question.

Adam K

[GenesisBoy]

Hope you can figure out how equalizers work by using and editing my presets. They have boring names for the most part lol but for my headphones, I use "New Best Preset Headphones 3." I suggest you use that for your headphones.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cbrs5sw0pusql ... s.xml?dl=0

[AdamK]

Thanks, but I'm afraid I'm not sure I can figure it out. While I managed to set the first line and it seemed an incredibly laborious thing (and not terribly accurate, given my big thumbs on those sliders) . How do you get the figures, such as the frequency, to be so exact? I just spent 20 minutes trying to set it for 8000, and never got it accurately.

[GenesisBoy]

Thanks, but I'm afraid I'm not sure I can figure it out. While I managed to set the first line and it seemed an incredibly laborious thing (and not terribly accurate, given my big thumbs on those sliders) . How do you get the figures, such as the frequency, to be so exact? I just spent 20 minutes trying to set it for 8000, and never got it accurately.

Have you tried tapping on the numbers themselves?

[AdamK]

No, because I'm doing it on a phone all I seem to get is a slide bar - no numbers to actually tap on, unless I'm missing something, some icon somewhere I'm supposed to hit that brings a little numerical keyboard up.

[AdamK]

Okay, just a last-ditch attempt to bump this up and hope for some practical help regarding the equalizer settings.

Thanks in advance...

Adam K

[AdamK]

Genesisboy - could you please post your link again? By sheer accident, I found out how to type numbers in (hope I can find it again) but now when I click on your link the DropBox page says 404 and it can't find what I'm looking for. Thanks!

[pwye]

Genesisboy - I am also interested in your equalizer settings. Please repost dropbox link again. Thanks

[GenesisBoy]

Here you guys go. Just to be clear, you aren't supposed to open the file on your computer, but instead replace the eq_presets.xml in your Neutron folder. This in turn removes all your presets, so make a backup of yours first if you want.

Also feel free to let me know which of my presets you prefer and what speakers you use them on

[AdamK]

Hi,

Thanks very much for this, and apologies for the delay in replying. I don't seem to have ticked a box on the forum, so don't get notifications when people reply. This looks a bit complicated for me (I'm really, really not that technically adept, and don't even know where the Neutron folder is, let alone how to amend it) and at first your reply just baffled and panicked me. I'll give it a go, though!