Audio processing reduces bass punchiness

[ClicK]

I discovered that, if enable audio processing in Poweramp EQ, the bass punchiness gets reduced, it doesn't have that hit anymore. I tried to play music and turn on and off audio processing and that is my conclusion. For the testing i disabled the EQ, compressor and limiter so it doesn't change any frequency And still the bass is reduced.

[MotleyG]

3 hours ago, ClicK said:

I discovered that, if enable audio processing in Poweramp EQ, the bass punchiness gets reduced, it doesn't have that hit anymore. I tried to play music and turn on and off audio processing and that is my conclusion. For the testing i disabled the EQ, compressor and limiter so it doesn't change any frequency And still the bass is reduced.

So with no processing enabled in the app, other than turning it on and off, there is a change? That shouldn't happen of course.

But you mention you have disabled the EQ, compressor, and limiter - the only remainng possibility is the native device processing externally. Have you disabled that?

[maxmp]

@ClicK your Android version? Try to reduce block size and see if this helps (on the lower Androids smaller block sizes may not work properly).

[ClicK]

@maxmp I'm using Android 12. Tried with 16000 and 2048 block size and same thing happens.

[maxmp]

@ClicK the smallest block should minimize that "fft smearing", but Poweramp Equalizer controls the Android DSP here and can't change firmware implementation. This is constantly improved by Google (Android 9 implementation barely worked).