Hacker News Reader

Comment by grawprog | Hacker News Reader

Is the Jack aware at all? This is a pretty nice looking eq and more eq plugins are always a handy tool to have. Needing to use the pulseaudio bridge for an eq makes it difficult to use in production setup with a chain of Jack input/outputs though.

View on HN

Being Jack aware would be a bonus but there are already a multitude of Jack aware EQ plugins. The feature-set of this prettyeq plugin seems aimed specifically at system-wide audio, in other words to adjust the audio on your system to match your daily use preferences, rather than production work. I might never use this sort of EQ (high-pass, lo-pass, 5 peaks) for production work. Maybe for tweaking a final mix... pulseaudio is definitely in need of some nicely integrated audio filters. Jack has many to choose from, but more are always welcome.

Edit: I am not an audio pro and if this EQ is in fact aimed at production, I would love to learn more about its use cases

This is pretty accurate. I wrote it to tweak songs to my speakers when I'm streaming music. I wanted something very fast, no configuration, pleasant graphics.

While probably not suited for production work, the design is based off of existing production tools that I am very familiar with (Channel EQ from Logic Pro X, Parametric Eq 2 from FL Studio).

If I need to do any kind of DSP i'd much rather insert a VST plugin into the chain using Carla or similar. Way more generic and less tied to Pulse that way and usually superior in engineering.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com