How to fix your Audio EQ in Audacious

For all Users who is having trouble with audacious in Ubunutu, this seemed to work to fix the EQ

1. Download the Winamp preset EQ's
2. Open up terminal
3. wget http://www.xmms.org/misc/winamp_presets.gz
4. To install the presets for the Audacious media player type:
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset

Restart Audacious. Now heres the sticker. What I think happens is Audaciou's Pre-Amp (to the left on EQ), is pushing too much Hz through the audio channel. Now, I do use the ALSA mixer, as nvidia's fails to work by default on my 8.04 machine.

Select a Winamp preamp, and turn on the EQ to ON. I am quite certain the preamp messes with the EQ in terms of the Base dB's (decibel) frequency. Think of if you've ever used Adobe Premiere, raising the dB too high and what, tiny crackly , or fuzzy audio! The same goes for a guitar amp, turn up the pre-amp (your amp) too high, then plug in a external effect pedal and turn up the sound and voila, crackly shitty audio.

Note!!!: If you use Ubuntu / Debian, I specially added the "Gnome-Alsamixer" to my arsenal as well. This allows you to change Master, and sub level audio tracks without the terminal. This will let you bump up you base master volume without destroying anything. The default audio applet on the top gnome panel bar only raises it so much. Find this program in Add/Remove Programs, or do "sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer "