EQCurvesDownload

This page serves as a library of additional EQ curves that can be used in the Equalization effect in current Audacity.

Adding the Curves to current Audacity

1. Right-click over any of the links to curves on this page (with yellow background), choose "Save Target as" or "Save Link As".
   • As more advanced usage, if you left-click the link, some web browsers will display the XML on the web page which you could then copy and paste to a file.
2. Save the file to any location on your computer. The best location to save to is inside Audacity's folder for application data as follows:
   • Windows 98/ME: Windows\Application Data\Audacity
   • Windows 2000/XP: Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Audacity
   • Windows Vista/7: Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Audacity\
   • OS X: ~/Library/Application Support/audacity/
   • Linux: ~/.audacity-data/ .
3. Select some audio and choose Effect > Equalization.
4. Choose "Save/Manage Curves...".
5. Choose "Import...", select the .xml file you downloaded, then "Open" (if you did not save the file to the above location, you'll need to navigate to the correct location first).
6. Click "OK".
   

In order to see Audacity's folder for application data on Windows, Linux or OS X 10.7 and later, you need to show hidden files and folders. See instructions for Windows 7, Windows versions before 7 and OS X 10.7.

Available Curves

Audacity Default Curves

If you are looking for these because you have no curves at all, download http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/presets/EQDefaultCurves.xml and save to the location above.

If you just want a copy of the defaults, rename this download or you will overwrite any other curves that you currently have.

EQ Curves for old recordings

The 1.2 version of Audacity had a number of EQ curves for electrical 78 rpm discs and early LP's which are not offered in current Audacity. If you need these curves again, download http://wiki.audacityteam.org/w/images/4/4c/EQRecord.xml . Note that the RIAA and Inverse RIAA curves in this file are now deprecated.

More advanced users can visit 78rpm playback curves for a table of "bass turnover" and "rolloff" values for a much wider range of 78 rpm discs and other early LP's. EQ Curves for Audacity can be generated from those values using the instructions on that page.

Other Curves proposed on the Forum

Browse all the posts in the complete Forum topic Submit your EQ Curves for some other curves for consideration.

Other user suggestions made by e-mail

• Gale: Curve(s) to compensate for non-flat frequency response in microphones. I suspect impractical, for reasons such as these.

Creating new Curves

All files should be XML that is readable by the "Save/Manage curves..." dialog in Equalization.

• The first line of the .xml file must be <equalizationeffect> and the last line of the file must be </equalizationeffect>.
• Each curve must have a first line in the form <curve name="name of curve"> and a last line </curve>.
• "f" points are the frequency in Hz and "d" points are the gain in dB (a dB value prefixed by "-" means a negative gain, that is a reduction in amplification).

Example .xml file:

 <equalizationeffect>
   <curve name="default walkie talkie">
      <point f="100.000000000000" d="-20.000000000000"/>
      <point f="125.000000000000" d="-16.000000000000"/>
   </curve>
   <curve name="modern walkie talkie">
      <point f="102.000000000000" d="-15.000000000000"/>
      <point f="130.000000000000" d="2.000000000000"/>
   </curve>
</equalizationeffect>

Files should not contain a curve called "unnamed" , but if they do it's not a disaster.

Files can be most easily be created by drawing EQ curves in Equalization, then choose "Save/Manage curves..." in Equalization and use the "Export..." button.

Saving Curves on this page

.xml files can be saved on this Wiki page as follows.

1. Log in or request a Wiki account here.
2. Upload the .xml file here.
3. Type the link to the file so that it looks like this example

<span style="background-color:#FFFF00">[[Media:ExplosiveBass.xml|http://wiki.audacityteam.org/w/images/6/6b/ExplosiveBass.xml]]</span>