Hear for OS X: Cool sound improver on your Mac
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
If you listen to music through headphones with a Mac without any additional bells and whistles, the sound often seems rather dry and flat. Even equalizer iTunes can not squeeze all the juice out of your favorite tracks. To the sound of saturation on the Mac, there are several solutions, but the improvers of the program is the best - it's Hear application.
In fact, this software DSP-processor, which runs at the system level. This means that processes Hear the sound that generates almost any Mac application - players, games, sound editors, browsers, etc... Unfortunately, there are exceptions: some programs and plugins ignores Hear that sound can vary very dramatically. But such exceptions bit.
Hear settings very much. However, the developers wisely grouped tools for different tabs of the program.
Basic setup
Basic sound settings are configured in the tab General. slider Super Bass It enhances the low and mid frequencies, squeezing of the headphone or speaker systems are what they are capable of their dynamics. slider
DeWoofer eliminates growl in the midrange, which improves the sound on the office "squeaker" built-in speakers and Macy's in the budget headphones. Parameter Ambience It is responsible for the sound spatiality, saturating it easy reverb effect. slider Fidelity required for bringing in additional high frequency harmonics, which in the first place, allows to eliminate the defects in sound audio file with a high degree of sound compression.regulator Volume (dB)As is already clear from the title, sets the overall level of sound output, and a drop-down list FX Chain specifies the sequence of audio processing one of three major effects Hear.
Additional settings
The group of switches Enable It allows you to activate additional configuration tools. Almost every switch corresponds to its tab in the program window:
- 3D Surround - the effect of three-dimensional "environment" sound (tab 3D).
- Extended Space - the effect of "spatial" sound, wherein the emulated sound reflected from the surfaces behind the listener (Tab Space).
- Extended FX - According to the developers themselves, aggressive type of treatment, "surrounded by" sound, which is especially good for close-spaced columns (tab FX).
- Extended Fidelity - additional audio processing to detect sound nuances damaged during compression of audio data (Tab Fidelity).
- Ambience - more precise tuning "spatial" reverberation, which is generally defined in the above general slider settings (Tab Ambience).
- Contour Maximizer - audio-frequency amplifier, which allows smoothly raise the sound level at the band region in which the natural sound of acoustic sags (Tab Maximizer).
- Virtual Subwoofer - additional adjustable bass boost in two stereo speakers, as if they were working with a real subwoofer; in some cases allows you to squeeze out of the speakers is very soft, yet powerful bass (tab Sub).
- Compressor / Limiter - Set the sound compression, ie the difference between the softest and loudest sounds; in other words sound volume smoothing (tab Limiter).
- Equalizer - of course, it includes a built-in equalizer Hear (tab EQ).
- FAT - giving the overall sound more clear sound; to some extent this switch emulates a tube amp.
Additionally, the group Enable tabs are not included Mixer, BW and Speaker. The mixer allows you to adjust the volume individually for each application that recognizes Hear. It can also be individually turned on and off all audio processing, sending it to the audio output by Hear.
inset BW (From the English. Brain Waves) Is responsible for generating brain waves imposed on the original sound (supposedly good for relaxation or concentration). Parameters also collected under the title SpeakerAre responsible for the soft adjustment (to the extent possible) surround speakers themselves - the expansion of the sound range, correction of an output phase (if the speakers are not correctly assembled) and so on.
It's nice that the whole set of parameters that you can fine-tune for many weeks, can be saved as presets (top drop-down list in the Hear window). So you can freely experiment with the settings and to return to established set of values that is until you meet most, if necessary.
→ Buy Software Hear for $ 19.99.
→ Download a demo version of Hear (Full functionality for 30 days).