Meanings
present singular third person misequalizes · participle present misequalizing · participle past misequalized · past misequalized
- transitivecomputingTo equalize badly.
If the recording is misequalized, overmiked , or poorly reverbed, the C/II will expose these faults.
1988, High Fidelity - Volume 38, Issue 2, page 282 more examples
At one time, U.S. Decca listed a large number of these performances, pressed on less than the best material, often misequalized, sometimes off pitch.
1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections, page 124The most common symptom of incorrect equalization (assuming good associated equipment) is a bright, hard, elevated roughness of response above approximately 2 kHz. I think all of us have heard systems misequalized that way.
1981, The Absolute Sound - Volume 6, Issues 21-24, page 73
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