The app can recall your audio settings between launches-but those custom settings are forgotten if you change to another audio type or output device on either of the two dials.Īudio Essentials also includes virtual VU meters, which I normally wouldn’t bother to mention. I dialed the bass level down dramatically, but it kept resetting itself until I disabled the app’s Auto setting for Default Music Genre, which was otherwise attempting to adjust the audio settings for each new song that came up in iTunes based on the track’s genre setting. For example, I found that Audio Essentials’s default settings for external speakers emphasized bass way too much, unlistenably so. While you can edit those defaults, however, you can’t save your adjustments. The app uses different presets depending on your audio source and output device selection. When you mouse over those settings, Audio Essentials helpfully explains a bit more about what those controls actually do. And I also found that Soundflower got confused when I use USB-connected audio devices, routing some audio to my laptop’s built-in speakers instead of the USB device.Ĭlick on the Advanced button, and you can adjust various sliders that control settings like 3D Center Level, 3D Space Level, and 3D TruBass Level. But Soundflower can muck about with some sound behaviors that you normally wouldn’t even think about: In my testing, at least in tandem with Audio Essentials, Soundflower played my Mac’s alert sounds louder than it should-at full, ear-splitting volume-in certain setups, like when I connected an external speaker to the headphone jack. Soundflower tucks new sound input and output devices into your Sound preference pane whether you’re actually using your Mac’s built-in speakers or the headphone jack, it will always claim to be using Soundflower (2ch) as its output device. Soundflower, a free, third-party utility for the Mac that can reroute your computer’s audio. First, though you wouldn’t know it unless you dived into the app’s online FAQs before installing, Audio Essentials requires that you install The app is functional, but not a delight to use. The software itselfĪudio Essentials doesn’t exactly look at home on your Mac. The first is the app itself, and the second is the audio quality it generates.
Because of how it works and what it does, it’s necessary to evaluate Audio Essentials on a couple different criteria.
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