Control your music equaliser, with Nokia Audio on Lumia

Published by Adam Fraser on February 11, 2013

Control your music equaliser, with Nokia Audio on Lumia

Built right into the Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 820, or Lumia 620, is an amazing audio equaliser, called Nokia Audio. If you love to pop on a pair of headphones and lose yourself in an album or a movie on your Nokia Lumia, keep reading on how to get the best possible audible experience.

Head over to the settings section in your phone and look for the Audio option near the bottom of the system list. It’s within here that you can do as much, or as little, tweaking to the audio levels as you want.

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The interface is really simple to use and the first screen is where you can play with the levels within the equaliser.

For most people, the 19 presets that have been created will do a grand job of satisfying your eardrums. Using the drop-down box you can choose from bass boost, vocal boost, treble boost, dance electronic, and a whole range of others.

Before you actually start playing with these settings, we’d recommend you load up Nokia Music and find a song to play so you can hear the difference as you change the equaliser settings.

When you select one of these presets you’ll see the equaliser levels rise in some places, and dip in others.

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However, for those aural-aficionados, you can go off-road and create your own custom levels. Just slide the bars up and down across the range, from low to medium to high to find that unique sound that’s more suited to your listening needs.

There’s another part to the Audio app, and that’s the enhancements feature – swipe left or right to find this. Here’s where you can switch on the Dolby Headphone and the audio levelling functions.

With Dolby Headphones switched on you’ll get a more realistic, natural sound, as if you were listing you your favourite band in the flesh. The audio levelling option ensures that the level of volume from your songs or videos remains constant and doesn’t increase massively from one track to another.

Have you use Nokia Audio yet? Have you gone for the presets, or have you created your own custom levels? Let us know, below.

Comments

  • http://mostlythis.com Mac Morrison

    can you fix it for this to work with bluetooth headphones too KBaiTHX

    • Simo Luiro

      I beleive the SBC codec used in Bluetooth would ruin what the Dolby Headphones algorithms can do. Equalizer impact could get through, but SBC encode/Decode harms the audio quality at least in most Nokia phones. Best results you would probably get with good quality wired headphones that do not have any audio processing electronics that would process the signal – combined processing effects tend to be unpredictable.

  • disqus_5jTdKkXk1j

    Equalizer

  • http://twitter.com/polaralex95 Alejandro

    Why not in 7.8 update? :(

  • http://www.geekchoice.com/washington-dc Dagmar Schneitz

    I this an app or part of the Nokia phone?

    • http://www.themobilefanatics.com Mike Macias

      It’s built in.

  • http://twitter.com/DjMikeMontana Mike Montana

    Did you forget about your windows 7.5/8 users or are you working on it?

  • viipottaja

    Would be great if you could make it work with wireless headsets too.

  • http://www.clubnokiard.com/ Frankie Bloise

    This really makes a difference, I’ve been testing it using my Purity HD as well as some Sony in ear headphones and is simply awesome.
    Plus sometimes while listening Drum and Bass, the equalizer option becomes very useful.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rEVEndricz2716 Michael Angelo Religioso

    how about us using the LUMIA 800 7.8 OS?

  • http://twitter.com/Hdrules Hradayesh Nimavat

    Dolby headphone is a cool sound enhancement…. I prefer it over very unrealistic beats audio sound enhancement in htc phones

  • Jerwin Paglicawan

    really I was a victim of deceptive marketing of nokia! I was told that
    the first lumia series will be getting W8 update…but until now, not
    even 7.8 update is available. I have to get it somewhere to update my
    Lumia 610, hoping that it will have the equalizer…but not even a
    single button to enhance the sound aside from the universal volume
    rocker to increase the volume which also affects other alerts as well. HHHHaaayyysssstttt……no wonder Nokia is losing their business!

  • http://twitter.com/bongpitts bong

    i cant see a equalizer settings on my musicplayer of nokia lumia 620 while i playing through the loudspeaker,why?is useless because i want to volume up the loudspeaker more,what is the reason.pls answer