Picture, words and audio

[xyzzy@bok]

graphics, - dictionary says graphic is 'to do with writing' so what is meant by 'graphic equaliser'
and also, images aren't graphics either, right? - they're images, or pictures; [pict as in depict means paint]. So why graphic this, graphic that - because it's a buzzword?

[Hippy]

The slider knobs on the graphic equaliser shift up and down and are supposed to represent a graph (remember those from math lessons?) of the frequency response of the equaliser.

Perhaps we should ask why the use of "Equaliser" when in most cases such devices are used to boost the deficient frequency response of other items in the audio chain.

Edward Woodward was the best Equaliser. (hohoho)

[Hippy]

Another thought:

Graphos = writing in Greek, and that is a two dimensional and symbolic representation of ideas, three dimensional objects, narrative flows, speculation, emotions.. the list goes on, but the main point is that writing, however beautiful to look at, is not the end product but a means of conveying an intangible: an idea.

Graphic images are similar symbolic representations rather than attempts at photo-realism. The use of the word "graphics" has crept from the world of advertising where products are often conveyed by symbols. For example coffee is suggsted by a drawing of a red mug tilted towards the veiwer with dark creamy brown representative liquid inside and some s shaped whispy white bits rising up to suggest that it is hot. It is not an attempt to accurately portray a cup of coffe as would a photo or realistic artist but a symbolic shorthand, whose elements may convey secondary ideas beyond the obvious.

[sft42]

All very right hippy but your readin' to much into it...in musical processing there are two types of equalization..hidden (ie colourisation by amp, speakers etc.)and graphic (manual changes by the user via a box designed for the purpose) and graphic eq's have been on the go since the late sixties as Hi-Fi kit.