[Bobboau]

does anyone know of some good audio software, something on the orderof a graphical equalizer, the important thing is I need seperate eqs for the front and rear chanels. I've tried searching but all I can find is stuff for editing sound files. and no the stuf that came with my sound card isn't good enough (I want to use my rear chanel as a bass chanel)

[Jeryko]

Have you tried Goldwave?  I am pretty sure it has some sort of Equalizing thingy.  Haven't gotten too much into it.

[Bobboau]

goldwave is an editor, I can't make that apply to all sound comeing out of my speakers.

[Nix]

I don't think any software that comes with any card actually has a decent EQ.  I know that my X-Fi doesn't have anything like that, then again I'm a headphone guy, so I haven't really messed around with my surround sound stuff. 

What you're trying to do is make the bass channel of a 5 speaker setup the rear two speakers, instead of the .1 channel?  5.1, IIRC, means 5 channels +1 bass channel.  I've no idea if that's even possible.

[WMCoolmon]

I suppose you could buy a couple of EQs from local thrift stores and use those...if you're really desperate, that is.

Some sound cards also have a scripting language sorta thing for the onboard DSP, you might be able to find presets if your soundcard supports that.

[Bobboau]

or I could wip myself up a few of these

but I realy would rather have this problem solved with software, it was sort of the whole point of me tieing my computer into the heart of my home entertainment center, this has been the one thorn in my side for the last few years (well this and not haveing a 64 inch HD LCD monitor) and it seems like one of those things that the internet should be utterly littered with, but I can't seem to find even the mention of the idea anywere, it's maddening.

[futureshock]

I don't know if I understand your problem, but perhaps what you look for is included in VLC. www.videolan.org. VLC has some nice features for audio once you check the advanced settings tick.
HTH


Edit: After reading the follow-up I realize I do not understand it.   

[Cyker]

Sorry, I have *never* seen anything that has a seperate EQ for different channels!

All are EQ for all speakers, with volume settings for front/rear/center

However, if you have both a sound card and an decent motherboard with on-board sound, you could do it that way
Problem is the rear's will get EQ'd by the sound card AND the motherboard's EQ stuff then...

Hmm. Can't see an cheap/easy way round this...
Easier way would be to get an EQ box and just connect it in-line with the rear channel.
Cheap way is to make one with that circuit

[SadisticSid]

Well as I understand it, the only way you could manipulate sound before it gets sent to the card is at the driver level. Maybe a pass-thru driver like the Yamaha Software XG.

http://members.aon.at/grxpage/news.htm#RTEQv4GPL - this might help, though I've never had any joy with it, and I don't think it works with DirectSound full stop.

[castor]

I think the kX project drivers can do this, but they are for Creative cards only
http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/

[neoterran]

If you use foobar2000, the audio player, there may be a few plugins to the DSP Stack of that program that can achieve this. you'll need foo_dsp_delta, and maybe foo_atsurround, and try it out.