EQ doesn't process the sound most of the time. And when it does, it does so in quite bizzare way.

[Krenegee]

As much as I love Poweramp Player, while using it for many years already, I'm having quite a hard time with Poweramp EQ. I admit that I'm quite specific user, as I use the player mostly for stage performances, but recently, in some use-cases I switch to different tool: Audio Cues, which is nice, little stage production software that allows to play multiple tracks and sound effects at the same time, but it lacks built-it EQ, and that's why I bought Poweramp EQ to overcome the issue. So far, so good.

I gave the EQ all possible privileges, as it didn't recognize Audio Cues as audio player, but eventually it did. Nice. And here come all the issues. The only working EQ control is the volume knob. Nothing else makes any difference. I tried possibly all settings combinations, and some strange things happened. Most of the time there was no difference, but when I turned off and on audio processing for Audio Cues player while playing the audio track, EQ was suddenly applied, but it lasted only for that particular track. Upon playing following one, EQ effects were absent and never came back, as long as I didn't disable and enable audio processing for Audio Cues app again. I suppose it's obvious that the necessity to restart audio processing for every single track kills the Poweramp EQ usability on the spot.

It got even more confusing, while playing more than one track at the same time, eg. ambience background and music track together. Using above method I was able to force enable EQ processing on the first playing track (although it still makes no sense to use it mid track during stage show), but it never got applied to the other audio track, as long as the first one was being played. The result is quite useless for having one audio track being processed by EQ but not the other, even when both are played using the same audio player at the same time.

I'm puzzled why actually it's not possible to apply EQ preset for global audio output of particular media player, rather than on track by track basis, especially when they're designed to be performed at the same time, or at least edited to crossfade between each other.

Edited November 27 by Krenegee