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Elgato Equalizer: Step up your game

James Espinoza

Technical Marketing Specialist

July 27, 2023

While jamming to your favorite tracks, you may find yourself tweaking the bass or treble to find the perfect balance. This magic is done with an equalizer (EQ) — a unique tool that alters your sound experience. However, EQs extend beyond music and can be used to gain a competitive edge while gaming.

Join us as we dive into Elgato Equalizer, and discover how it can be used to focus on sounds such as footsteps in Valorant.

Understanding Equalizers

Think of an EQ as a super-powered volume control. It can turn up the volume for some frequencies while turning others down. EQs have different bands that can change the way your game sounds.

High Pass

It's like a door that only lets high sounds through. This can make footsteps sound sharper.

Low Pass

This is the opposite of High Pass. It allows low sounds to pass, emphasizing the thumps and rumbles of footsteps.

High Shelf and Low Shelf

These are like shelves where sounds sit. High Shelf affects the high sounds, and Low Shelf affects the low ones. They can add more 'oomph' or 'zing' to your footstep sounds.

Bandpass

It's like a spotlight on a stage, focusing on one sound in the middle and fading out the others. This can make footsteps stand out from other game sounds.

With that covered, let's see how EQ can be applied to gaming!

Using Elgato Equalizer for Valorant

Take a look at how our partner @LotharHS uses Elgato Equalizer for Valorant. Step by step, he’ll set up Elgato EQ and show you how to optimize it for the game you’re playing.

Pro tip:

To get you started, here are the general frequency ranges for footsteps in popular games:

  • Valorant: 100-125 Hz

  • Call Of Duty Warzone: 90-120 Hz

  • PUBG: 1900-2400 Hz

Your Sound, Your Way

Remember, your ears are the ultimate judge. Feel free to experiment with settings until you find the perfect balance. What works well for Valorant might not work for another game. So keep tweaking and finetuning until it sounds right to you!

Equalizer

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Equalizer

EQ made easy. With Equalizer, tune your microphone to fit your unique voice. Ditch the confusing numbers, knobs, and sliders of traditional EQs. Now, customize your highs and lows with ease in Wave Link — without ever sacrificing power. Whether you’re a beginner or pro, the Elgato EQ is the ultimate audio companion for streaming, podcasting, recording, and more. Why you’ll love this free voice effect: Love your microphone? Finetune its frequencies and sound even better. See your voice’s natural frequencies with real-time audio visualization. Easy to pick up and use, Equalizer is less intimidating than other EQs. It's ultra customizable, so you can control frequencies with pinpoint accuracy. Save and switch between presets, or import custom settings from Marketplace Makers. With just a few clicks, Equalizer installs to your Wave Link setup. As a VST3 plugin, it can be used in other DAW apps like Reaper, Ableton Live, and Cubase. Why use an equalizer? There are a number of reasons: An EQ raises or lowers volume for specific frequencies to produce clearer audio Adjust your lows to add bass and boom, adjust your highs to improve vocal clarity Reduce muddiness and nasally tones, or boost your warmth for a radio-like sound Filter out unwanted noise, like sibilance, with ease New to EQing? With the Elgato Equalizer, learn as you finetune: Frequency ranges have easy-to-identify labels, not just numeral values Turn on helper descriptions to better understand what each range is used for Play a short animated tutorial to learn how to manage bands A streamlined UI removes unnecessary knobs and sliders Love to customize? This EQ is loaded with tools to personalize your audio: Add up to 8 customizable bands Adjust integrated high pass, low pass, high shelf, and low shelf settings Finetune a frequency spectrum from 20 Hz up to 20 kHz Customize your gain using a range of -12 to 12 dB Ready to finetune your sound? Try Elgato EQ in Wave Link or your favorite DAW app and hear the difference. Check out presets now and explore the full potential with Elgato Equalizer.

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