75. Adjust Equalizer Settings for Individual Songs BEFORE YOU BEGIN 71 Customize Which Information Columns Are Displayed 74 Adjust the Global Equalizer SEE ALSO 6 Configure Your iPod for Your Headphones or Speakers 75. Adjust Equalizer Settings for Individual Songs The Equalizer presets discussed in 74 Adjust the Global Equalizer can be applied to individual songs. When you play a song with an Equalizer preset defined, that preset is used for output instead of whatever global equalizer setting is currently in effect. This feature is indispensable if you have a lot of music from different genres that require different amplification characteristics. Just set Equalizer settings for any tracks whose output balance you want to ensure is adjusted by a certain profile; as you play each such track, iTunes switches automatically to that profile for its duration, and then switches back to the global preset it had been using before. NOTE Equalizer settings on individual songs have no effect when the songs are played on an iPod. | 1. | Display the Equalizer Column In the music source or display mode of your choice (such as the Library view or a playlist ), display the Equalizer column as described in 71 Customize Which Information Columns Are Displayed . Scroll horizontally to that column's location or drag it to a position where it's visible. | | 2. | Define Equalizer Presets for Individual Songs Click the small up/down arrow icon in the Equalizer field of any of the song entries in the listing to reveal the drop-down menu full of available presets, the same as you see in the global Equalizer palette. Choose a preset appropriate to the song's genre or style from the list: Rock, Electronic, Jazz, Dance, Acoustic, Classical, Spoken Word whatever best fits the track in question. | | 3. | Define Equalizer Presets in the Info Window You can also define a song's Equalizer preset without displaying the Equalizer column. Select the song and choose File, Get Info ; on the Options tab, choose the appropriate preset from the Equalizer Preset drop-down list. If you select several songs at once and choose Get Info , the Equalizer Preset menu is one of the configurable settings that you can apply to all selected songs at once. | |