Truer words: you don’t always have to like one app wonder, more options more fun, yeah? This isn’t going to be pitch perfect conversion, but it’s fun to try anyway and maybe you’ll find better settings who knows (or very much shittier :D). Hopefully will give you some starting ideas, this probably for whoever needs help with their mobile app EQ or with other OS where FXsound isn’t available, or just wanna tryout different app and vice versa. Oooor someone like me who’s life mantra has been “go f***ing around and find out” even though I’m all set with all my devices cross platforms.
The effects aren’t exactly unrelated to the EQ bands themselves, that means you have your own preset EQ-frequencies settings as base to start with, then you can adjust some more on specific band to somewhat achieve the effects setting in your preset. I’m using fxsound Default preset as reference to give you an idea which bands pair with each effect (messy girl), so do compare the frequencies in your own preset just fyi, 2.6 kHz isn’t same as 3.2kHz etc.
I’m assuming you have all the Normalization, master gain, filter Q, balance as default (babes if you change them then the other app has to support those settings cuz my last name isn’t audiopedia :'<). And don’t worry I’ve been playing around with my own personal ears and one of the voices claims to be my uncle who works at Apple, thus maybe I’m just right and you should totally let my voice guide you. (⌐■_■)
Clarity
This is around band 7-10 (4 bands btw), fxsound is nice they put a little definition for each band when you hover your mouse on it, so you can read them yourself too. Vocal clarity will bring the voice out front with raspy, crispy, clicky, classy divas mode, but ya might wanna chill out with these if ya gonna be listening to Miley Cirus or Adelle lol, yes my mothers are raspy af. (@fxsound could we have some change regarding the UI text being kinda small and hard too read? :'/)
Ambience
This is probably related to bands 4-5-6 and 9, these brings the voice back in, these warm “down” diva cigarette vocal, it gets mushed in and muffled if too much, also more band 6 = more nasal. but, buuuut it brings out the effect of theatrical, echoy to the voice like how you belting your soul in the bathroom. different kind of diva mode, just it sounds “farther away” as somewhat opposite to what Clarity do.
Surround
Idk, this is some rabbit hole down to 3D binaural audio. It feels kinda the same to mono and stereo where mono will sound at the middle of your head and stereo is panning audio to both sides, so surround will be something higher level, binaural means equal audio no matter where you turn your head to, so anything immersive, multichannel, fancy bougie words to describe this similar effect— very lovely for a chill horror movie sesh.
Anyway, I’m out of magic since this depends on the software or the audio/media file recorded. I’m confident this is the case of “if he wants to he would”, some recording can totally render the “surround” feeling with zero, nada, nie other app or subscription and any headphones should be able to. So imma say if your diva want you to hear surround they will, dolby is scamming~. No trust no problemo senorita, try out the binaural test in the link no need for any app or hi-fi headphones, also remember to do this at 3 a.m. for fuller experience
The Ultimate Headphones Test by Dr. Ir. Stephan Pigeon )
Dynamic boost
Can’t nail down which are most effected bands, but I can feel it is around bass to lower or somewhat mid-mid range. so band 2-3ish? to 5 or even 6 ish? soo, let the other voices guide you on this one gl!
For safe play is to divide the dB by the number of bands you wanna apply to give each an average gain, so it “dynamically” boost the volume?!?!
Bass boost
Summary
This might have something to do with the bass…
Well anyway, that’s it hope you cook up something, but uhmm one last thing, if you need to adjust something more than 5+dB or your EQ goes ziczac roller coaster, oh baby you might’ve REAAALLY cooked something up there…