Re: [expert] ALSA & Yamaha XG

[Anton Graham]

Submitted 24-Jul-00 by Sevatio Octavio:
> Some of you mentioned that you were able to get ALSA to work for Yamaha 
> XG cards.  And you said that ALSA sounded better than OSS.  I'm currently 
> using the OSS driver.  Could you tell me if ALSA gives you bass & treble 
> controls or is it a hardware issue?


AFAIK, no soundcard has _driver_ controlled bass/treble under any OS.
What you may have seen in the past is a kind of preprocessing software
that performs the same function.  

There are bass boosting plugins and equalizers for popular MP3
players, which are basically the same idea, they perform a calculation
of the digital data to produce the same effects that real bass boost
circuitry or equalizers would.

None of the MP3 players I have used actually have specific bass/treble
controls either, because fiddling with the equalizer [wc]ould give more
fine-tuned results.

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