I am not an audio person, so do not have much idea about technical terms - but I hear the words “bass” and “treble” almost everywhere now, especially in the equalizer app that came with  a new bluetooth earbuds that I bought (yes, I am still very much a wired-earbud guy, just dipping my toes in the wireless earbud ocean).

So what do these “bass” and “treble” mean? I guess I hear the sounds to be different when I monkey around with the equalizer. The sound is slightly deep/full for “bass” and less so for “treble”.

Is that all?

  • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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    330 days ago

    That’s pretty much it, yeah. Bass is deep sounds, treble is high sounds. When you’re playing a piano, if you look at the keys, the left keys are the bottom notes and are in the bass clef. Around the middle you hit what’s called middle C and you switch to the treble clef. All of the keys have specific spots on sheet music to indicate what to play. On the equalizer app, it tries to pick out what notes and sounds are being played in the (bass/mid/treble) ranges and amplify them or mute them based on what settings you’ve picked.