How to eq on spotify?

Spotify lets you listen to music wherever you are, recommends new songs based on your activity and provides fun, personalized streaming data at the end of every year. You can also make and share playlists with friends on social media, or with the whole world through the app.

If you feel like something is missing from your listening experience, though, Spotify lets you take control of various settings to make your music sound more superb. That way whether you're in a quiet library, on your morning commute or pumping some iron in the gym, your music will always fit the mood.

Here's how to crank your Spotify listening experience up to 11 no matter what the situation.

Volume is pretty easy to figure out, but did you know Spotify lets premium users adjust the base volume of the app depending on their environment? You can select either Quiet, Normal or Loud, and each has its own benefit.

Quiet will make songs a little quieter and sound cleaner, making it a good choice if you're relaxing at home. Normal makes songs play at a medium base volume, and the sound is less crisp than Quiet. This is a good choice for most people and situations. Loud is -- you guessed it -- louder, but you might lose some audio quality because of the loudness. This option is good if you're at the gym or other similarly noisy environments.

Here's how to adjust the base volume on your iPhone:

1. Open the Spotify app.2. Tap the gear icon in the top-right corner of your screen.3. Tap Playback.4. Under Volume level there are three options: Loud, Normal and Quiet.

If you're using the Spotify app on a Mac, here's how to adjust the base volume:

1. Open Spotify.2. Click the down arrow in the top-right corner.3. Under Audio Quality, you should see Volume level. 4. Click the drop-down bar to the right of Volume level.5. From here, you see the same Loud, Normal and Quiet options. Pick whichever one works for you.

Here's how to adjust the base volume if you're using the Spotify app on an Android device:

1. Open Spotify.2. Tap the gear icon to access Settings.3. Under Playback you should see Volume Level.4. Next to Volume Level you should see the Loud, Normal and Quiet options. Pick the one you want.

Finally, here's how to adjust the base volume in Spotify while on a Windows computer:

1. Open Spotify.2. Click your account name in the top-right corner.3. Click Settings.4. Under Audio Quality, you should see Volume level. Click the drop-down bar to the right.5. Select either Loud, Normal or Quiet.

If you prefer being more hands-on with how your bass and treble come across in each song, you can adjust the in-app equalizer. Adjusting your bass affects lower-frequency sounds, making your music sound deeper with increased bass or flat with less bass. Treble affects the higher sound frequencies, making your music sound brighter and crisper with increased treble, or duller and kind of muddied with less treble.

Here's how to access the equalizer on your iPhone:

1. Open Spotify.2. Tap the gear in the top right corner to access Settings.3. Tap Playback. 4. Scroll down and tap Equalizer.

Here's how to access the equalizer on your Android device:

1. Open Spotify.2. Tap the gear icon to access Settings.3. Under Audio quality, tap Equalizer.

This opens the equalizer page on both systems. Here you can find the manual equalizer slider and a handful of premade genre-based equalizers.

You should see the manual equalizer slider that looks like a line graph with six dots. When you first get to this page, the equalizer should be flat.

Each dot on the graph can be adjusted for more or less sound. The far left bar represents your bass, the far right bar controls your treble and the middle bars control -- you guessed it -- your midrange. You can tweak the bars as you see fit.

There are also genre-based equalizers on this page. You can pick which genre you're listening to and the app automatically adjusts the sliders to optimize for that style of music. After picking one, you can further adjust the sliders for the perfect listening experience.

If you want to reset the equalizer, there's a genre-based equalizer called Flat. This will reset the equalizer to its default.

You can also access the equalizer on your Windows computer. Here's how.

1. Open the Spotify app.2. Click your profile in the top right corner of the window.3. Click Settings.4. Click the slider next to Equalizer.

Now you can adjust the equalizer slider as you see fit. You can also click the dropdown menu next to Presets to access the genre-based equalizers.

The Mac version of Spotify doesn't have an in-application equalizer. But you can search for an equalizer application to help you in your journey to find the best sound.

You can also adjust the audio quality of your music. This is handy if you're using mobile data and don't want to bump up your phone bill. Reducing the audio quality will use less data.

Here's how to change the audio quality on mobile and tablet:

1. Open the Spotify app.2. Tap the gear icon to access Settings.3. Tap Audio Quality.4. Under WiFi streaming and Cellular streaming, you can select Automatic, Low, Normal or High. The Automatic option adjusts the audio quality to whatever your signal strength is. If you're a paid subscriber you'll see a fifth option under both WiFi streaming and Cellular streaming called Very high.

If you want a better listening experience with Spotify, buying a pair of high-quality headphones can be expensive. Luckily, there is a way to significantly improve your sound without spending a dime: using the built-in equalizer of the streaming service.

However, this isn’t the most user-friendly task to do. Your personal preferences play an important role in determining the best configuration for your music taste, so there is no one-size-fits-all setting.

That’s why I’m here to help you today.

Hi! I’m Ian, a specialist in music production with nearly 10 years’ experience. I will help you improve your sound with the Spotify equalizer. Let’s get into the article.

The best Spotify equalizer settings to make music better will best fit your headphones/speakers and personal preferences the most. There is no easy answer to this question, so we always recommend you adjust your Spotify equalizer in real-time while listening to your favorite songs.

An equalizer is a useful tool designed to shape the audio to your preference.

With an equalizer, you can, for example, filter, attenuate, or boost a particular frequency in the frequency spectrum and tailor your listening experience to your liking.

The Spotify equalizer features 6 bands that you can move up or down to boost or attenuate a specific frequency, respectively. This type of tool is called a parametric equalizer.

The Spotify equalizer also features presets for easier swapping when you’re, for example, listening to different music genres back to back or swapping your pair of headphones or speakers.

The equalizer is very useful in a wide range of situations. For instance, it is widely known that most consumer-grade headphones don’t have a flat or balanced response and will reproduce certain frequencies more accurately than others. You can use the equalizer to improve the situation and make your sound more balanced.

Another situation where the equalizer is useful is when you want to tailor your sound according to the music genre you’re listening to. For example, fans of hip-hop music will certainly like more bass in their listening experience than jazz and classical music fans.

You can easily access the Spotify equalizer in the iOS, Android, or Windows and Mac OS systems by going to the “Settings” app page. Below, we will explain in detail how you can find the tool.

The step-by-step on how to access Spotify equalizer on your iOS device should be the same regardless of the model of iPhone you’re using. These steps also apply if you want to change the equalizer settings on your iPod or iPad.

How to Access Spotify Equalizer on iOS

When it comes to Android devices, the process is a little different. The Android Spotify app doesn’t feature a built-in equalizer, but most smartphones featuring the system do.

When you access the equalizer via the Spotify app on your Android device, the system automatically redirects you to your smartphone’s built-in eq. Here are the steps on how to do it:

How to Access Spotify Equalizer on iOS

The Spotify app doesn’t feature a built-in equalizer if you’re using Windows or Mac OS. If you wish to have this feature, you will have to install a third-party solution depending on your operating system.

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Now, we will list some of the best Spotify equalizer settings you can use to enhance your music and listening experience. These vary from presets you can find on the app to manual tunings.

As we said before, the best Spotify equalizer setting will highly depend on what pair of headphones you’re using, the music genres you listen to, and your personal preferences, so we can’t recommend a setting for everyone.

We recommend, however, that you test each one to find the best setting for your particular use case. Listen to your songs and tailor your equalizer according to your liking in real-time. Now, let’s look at some of the best settings for the tool.

The bass booster preset present on the Spotify app for iPhone is an easy way to, as the name implies, make your low-frequency content more powerful in a balanced and non-overpowering way.

The preset starts with a boost from the 60Hz to the 2.4kHz area that gradually tapers as it enters the mid-frequencies. This setup is better than just boosting the low frequencies up since this could be overpowering, and the gradual fade will make your overall response sound much more natural.

You can, of course, tailor the preset to your liking. We suggest you try sliding up the 150Hz and the 400Hz area if you’d like to boost your bass response even more but be careful not to overpower it, as we mentioned before.

The acoustic preset’s name suggests what it is great for: acoustic ballads and folk music genres. The preset works well if you’re into singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar tunes.

The acoustic preset features a slight boost on the low-end, which sometimes might sound underpowered in a lot of acoustic ballads depending on the pair of headphones you use, as well a gain on the 2.4kHz area, which is where most of the human voice content is placed around.

This preset is also very useful if you also listen to other music genres besides acoustic ballads and folk but would like a more natural response that mimics them more transparently.

If you mainly listen to EDM music, then boosting the low and mid frequencies might be a great idea. This is because the music genre has a lot of content on the bass area, such as the kick drum, and essential parts of the song, like the vocals, are frequently on the mids.

The dance preset, present on the Spotify iPhone app, does exactly this. It gives a considerable boost to the low frequencies around 50Hz and 150Hz, as well as to the mid frequencies, starting at 400Hz and going up to 2.4kHz.

Depending on your preferences, you might want to boost the highs (15kHz slider) as well since this frequency is not enhanced by default, and you might get a more balanced sound if you do so.

The pop preset slightly attenuates the low frequencies and gradually boosts the mid frequencies. This configuration enhances the vocals, which is one of the most critical elements of any pop song, naturally.

If you like to listen to bass-heavy pop, we suggest an alteration to this preset: a slight boost in the 60Hz area to bring it back to mid-level, as it will improve your listening experience.

However, the mid-range boost on this preset might be overpowering for certain songs. You can reduce the effect slightly for a more transparent listening experience and natural vocals.

If you’re listening to music on your smartphone, you may already know that the speakers’ performance on most devices isn’t the best. This is because they are small and designed to be compact rather than sound good.

There is a setting on the iOS Spotify that might help with that: the Small Speakers preset. This particular preset will boost the lows, an area frequently lacking when it comes to most smartphone speakers, and raise the highs for a more holistic performance.

Depending on the model of your smartphone, you can also attenuate the mids a little more, especially the area around 400Hz and 1kHz, so that it doesn’t sound too radio-like.

If you listen to many podcasts, you naturally want an equalizer configuration that enhances the voice content on your audio so that you listen clearly to what is being said.

The best option, in that case, is to boost the mids manually. You can gradually boost the 1kHz and 2.4kHz sliders in real time until you find the optimal position. Boosting the 15kHz area is also useful, depending on your personal preferences.

If you want to improve your podcast listening experience further, try attenuating the 60Hz area a little bit as well, as this will avoid any issues with boominess and environmental noise.

A setting that will likely sound great regardless of the music genre you’re listening to. As human hearing is conditioned to hear louder midrange sounds, you can get a more balanced listening experience by boosting the other frequencies. Be careful not to overdo it, as you might get an unnatural sound.

As we mentioned before, it is natural and expected of headphones that they can’t provide an entirely flat response across the frequency spectrum, attenuating and boosting certain frequencies on their own. However, the performance will largely depend on your particular model of headphones.

Some headphones might have a more pronounced response to the low frequencies, while others might shine in the mid and high frequencies. The best option is to listen carefully to a song you know well and see how you feel about the sound quality.

We recommend you tailor the equalizer according to what you’re hearing with your headphones in real-time. That way, you will be able to achieve a much more balanced response.

The equalizer isn’t the only useful tool in the Spotify app. There are some other configurations and parameters that can significantly enhance your listening experience as well.

Below, we are going to list some of these configurations and explain how you can access and set them up.

Each song on Spotify has its own gain, depending on how it was mastered. Some tracks are quieter, and some tracks are louder. This is natural and has been this way for a long time.

When you’re listening to different songs back to back, you might experience a sudden change in the volume level. This disruption of your listening experience is the problem here.

Here is where audio normalization comes in. The audio normalization feature will bring all of the songs to the exact same level of gain. That way, you won’t have any inconsistencies in your session.

You can find audio normalization in the settings inside your Spotify app, both on iOS and Android. Simply click the gear icon on the upper right part of the screen and, if you’re on iOS, go to “Playback” and you will see the settings under “Volume Level”. If you’re on Android, scroll down on the settings page until you find “Normalize Volume”.

If you’re using Spotify on your Windows or Mac OS, you can find the audio normalization options right under the “Settings” page.

It is great to mention that there are, by default, three audio normalization settings: quiet, normal, and loud. The names are self-explanatory but you should try all three to find which one suits your needs best.

As the name implies, this setting refers to the audio quality level of your tracks within Spotify. You can choose between four settings, including the automatic option, which lets Spotify choose the best quality for you depending on whether you are using the app via wi-fi or cellular.

Spotify also allows you to independently choose the audio quality level for both when using a wi-fi connection and a cellular connection. This is useful if you want to save and not consume too much data. If you scroll down, you will also find you can pick the audio quality for your downloaded content.

On both iOS and Android, tap the gear icon at the upper right part of the screen and search for “Audio Quality”. There, you can access all of the settings regarding this feature. On Windows and Mac OS, you can find these options under the “Settings” page.

This setting is only available for Windows and Mac. If you feel like the performance of your Spotify app is not sufficient, you can activate the hardware acceleration feature to offload tasks from the software to the computer’s hardware.

To find this option, go to your Spotify app’s “Settings” page. There, scroll down and click on “Show Advanced Settings”. Under the page, you can turn on the option “Enable Hardware Acceleration”.

The transition settings, as the name implies, will define how your Spotify app will handle the transition from one song to another. Basically, the app will create a crossfade between the two tracks for a smoother listening experience.

You can set the time for this gradual crossfade up to 12 seconds. The transition settings can be found, both on Android and iOS, by clicking the gear icon on the upper right part of the screen, then going to “Playback” and then “Crossfade”.

If you’re using Windows or Mac OS, you can find the feature in the “Settings” page under “Playback” and “Crossfade Songs”.

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The Spotify equalizer is an amazing tool that can greatly improve your sound quality and listening experience without spending a dime. We recommend you follow the steps in our article and fiddle with the different settings to find the best ones for you.

• Open Spotify.
• Tap the gear in the top right corner to access Settings.
• Tap Playback.
• Scroll down and tap Equalizer.