Not exactly a big deal, but it would definitely be cool to have all of this start up on its own upon User Login. Because even though I have both the AU Lab app and my customized EQ document added to the Login Items list, Mountain Lion doesn’t seem to want to completely launch AU Lab at Login. Now, I’ve tinkered with the ‘Login Items’ setting and so far I haven’t been able to get AU Lab to automatically start up and play my EQ document at Login, but I have narrowed it down to a one-click affair (with that click being the AU Lab icon in the dock). I’m running Mountain Lion and goddamn does this works great! Every single audio input (iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, etc.) is equalized at exactly the same frequencies… simply brilliant! The 3rd drop down from the left of the EQ window lets you save/change presets. Tweak like mad with 31 bands or change it to 10 bands to get an EQ that looks more like the iTunes one. Under “Ouput 1″ apply the effect Apple->AUGraphicEQ Change the Audio Input Device to “Soundflower (2ch)” and the Audio Output Device to “Built-in Output”. You’ll be prompted with “Document Configuration”, use the Factory Configuration “Stereo In/Stereo Out”. Step 3) Setup Input and Output devices in AU Lab Select that one.Įasiest to search for it in Spotlight or it’s default location is at /Developer/Applications/Audio/AU Lab.app You should see Soundflower (2ch) in the list of devices. According to NicolasBalan in the comments below, you can now download AU Lab standalone from the rest of XCode (you will need an Apple Developer Login though), go to the Downloads for Developers page and search for “AU Lab” to get it.Īnd that’s it for software requirements! Step 1) Change Audio Output DeviceĬhange the output device in System Preferences->Sound, choose the Output tab. It’s a bundled application with Xcode so either download it from Apple or install it from your OS X Install DVD if you don’t want to deal with the multi-GB download. It’s similar to Audio Hijack Pro in the fact that it adds virtual sound devices but without any other capabilities like recording/sfx/etc (and it’s freeware). These steps are done on a Snow Leopard iMac (10.6.7 specifically) but I’m pretty sure they would work on a Tiger/Leopard (10.4/10.5) machine as well.įirst thing is to install Soundflower which requires a restart. Today I finally figured out how to get a global system equalizer for OS X (for free) so I can push the bass up a little to compensate for the “emptiness”. Like they slightly tweak it for normal/smaller headphones. I have a decent pair of headphones, Audio-Technica ATH-M50, and the default line-out from an Apple desktop machine has always sounded a little “empty” to me. The downside to this is that Google Chrome doesn’t have a built-in audio equalizer like iTunes. I listen to music through online streaming services like Pandora and Slacker. I don’t have a music collection to listen to using iTunes.

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