If you are an audiophile, a hardcore gamer, or simply enjoy customizing the sound on Windows 10 , you might be looking for an equalizer app.
An equalizer can adjust the loudness of specific sound frequencies — called frequency bands — to suit the listener's preferences and the acoustics of the environment. For example, an equalizer would allow you to boost the bass when listening to dance music or boost the treble in a room that responds to low-frequency sounds.
But which Windows 10 equalizer software is the best? Are there any free equalizers for Windows 10? Find out the answer in the following article!
1. Equalizer APO
The first recommendation of the article is Equalizer APO. It is the most powerful, customizable, and full-featured free equalizer you will find. The app operates as an Audio Processing Object (APO), so if your audio uses APIs like ASIO or WASAPI, it won’t work.
Equalizer APO's best features include unlimited filters, multi-channel usage, 3D surround sound support, and very low CPU usage. You can also create multiple profiles (for speakers and headphones, for example) and switch between them in a flash.
The major drawback is the lack of a graphical user interface (GUI). You need to edit the filters in a TXT file . Fortunately, there are some third-party GUIs available, such as Peace Equalizer .
2. Equalizer Pro
Equalizer Pro is another popular choice. It is more user-friendly than Equalizer APO thanks to its clean and clutter-free interface.
The app offers a 10-band equalizer. That’s not as many as some of the other equalizers on this list, and it falls short of professional music devices that offer 30 or more bands. Still, it’s more than enough for all but the most dedicated audiophiles.
Equalizer Pro comes with 20 presets, a system-wide bass boost, and the ability to save your own equalizer profiles. The app also offers a preamp volume control feature. This means you can adjust a single frequency band to boost the bass without having to tweak each one individually.
Equalizer Pro is not free. You can try it for 7 days, but after that, you will have to pay $19.95 to purchase a license.
3. Bongiovi DPS
Bongiovi uses Digital Power Station (DPS) technology to improve the sound of music, games, apps and videos. It works in real time to edit and optimize audio, available for both Windows and Mac.
A subscription to the app costs $4.99/month. For that price, you get system-wide DPS audio processing, stereo headphone audio, access to a virtual subwoofer for deep bass, and the ability to create 100 custom sound profiles with frequency band settings tailored to your preferences. The app also offers sound visualization based on bass, treble, and any audio output.
4. FXSound
The FXSound app is two tools in one. It has an equalizer (and its related effects) and real-time audio processing.
First, let’s look at the equalizer. It comes with 10 bands ranging from 110Hz to 15KHz. There are also customizable sliders for fidelity (to reduce muffled sounds in compressed audio), ambience (to add stereo depth), surround (to increase loudness while increasing dynamic range), and bass boost. Preset profiles include Rap, Alternative Rock, Dialog Boost, Country, Techno , and a ton of others.
Real-time processing excels when you're listening to audio on the web. Internet audio is only 16-bit, but FXSound uses a 32-bit processor. The processor automatically adjusts the fidelity, ambience, and surround, then remixes it into a 16-bit version. This allows the app to significantly improve upon the web's theoretical 16-bit output limit.
FXSound offers a 7-day free trial. The full app costs a one-time payment of $49.99.
5. Voicemeeter Banana
If you do a lot of work with your microphone — like starting your own podcast or uploading a lot of videos to YouTube — you should try Voicemeeter Banana.
The main feature of the application is the advanced audio mixer. It allows you to control your computer's audio for any kind of streaming or recording.
From an equalizer perspective, the mixer lets you adjust both the input and output audio. So if you’re streaming your screen to Twitch, talking to your family on Skype, or recording a podcast with friends, you can compensate for any microphone deficiencies by making the audio sound sharper and less distorted. You can experiment with the equalizer settings in the Master Section of the app.
Voicemeeter Banana is a donation software. You can pay for what you like in this software and it is not compulsory.
6. Boom3D
Boom3D is an equalizer app for both Windows 10 and macOS.
The software is primarily designed for people who listen to computer audio through headphones. The tool can convert all your audio output into 3D surround sound without any additional hardware or enhancers.
Boom3D also boasts one of the most advanced equalizers of any app on this list. The equalizer has 31 frequency bands and dozens of presentations, both of which combine to deliver an immersive listening experience, no matter what genre of music you're playing.
7. Equalizer for Chrome Browser
Equalizer for Chrome Browser is a bit different from the other equalizer software for Windows 10 that the article has mentioned. Instead of being an EXE file that you download and run on Windows operating system, this is a Chrome application.
Being a Chrome app has its pros and cons. The downside is that this equalizer will only work with audio generated from within the Chrome web browser and cannot make system-wide changes.
However, most people listen to the majority of their audio through Chrome on the desktop—whether it's YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, or something else. This extension will also work on all devices running Chrome and won't hog system resources.
Hope you find the right choice!
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