Trueforce EQ

Some frequencies make a rig rattle, a button buzz or a mount ring, and others your wheel barely renders. The Trueforce EQ cuts or lifts the plugin’s vibration at the frequencies you choose, across every effect at once.

Where it is

On the Effects tab, open Trueforce EQ under Master gain. It shows in both Simple and Advanced.

It is one curve for your wheel and rig rather than part of a preset, so it follows you into every game and car. It shapes only the plugin’s vibration; the game’s own force feedback is untouched. It starts flat, which changes nothing.

Taming a rattle

1. Drive, or press Test on an effect that sets the rattle off.
2. Watch the graph. The blue bars are what the wheel is getting right now, and the pale line is what it would get with no EQ. A rattle usually shows as a bar that stands taller than its neighbors.
3. Double-click the graph at that spot to add a point there, or press Add band.
4. Drag the point down until the rattle stops. Scroll on it to change its width: narrow takes out the rattle and leaves the rest of the feel alone.
5. Drive again. If the effect now feels thin, the cut is too wide or too deep.

Lifting works the same way, dragging up, for a range your wheel renders faintly. Go gently: a big lift can wake up a rattle that was not there before.

The kinds of point

• Bell lifts or cuts around one frequency. Most fixes are a bell.
• Low shelf and High shelf lift or lower everything below or above a point.
• Low cut and High cut remove everything below or above a point. They sit parked at the edges of the graph and stay off until you drag them in. Slope sets how steeply they fall away.

The table under the graph lists every point with its numbers, if you would rather type than drag. Each one can be switched off there without losing its values.

Presets

The list above the graph starts with Flat and Clean bass. Flat is no change. Clean bass tightens the low end: it drops the rumble too deep to feel, cuts the muddy band around 200 Hz, and brings the texture above it forward.

Save… keeps your own curve in the list after the built-ins. Change a preset and it shows as edited until you save it or pick it again.

Keys

Arrow keys nudge the selected point, with Shift for bigger steps. Alt and drag changes a bell’s width. Delete or right-click removes a point, and Ctrl+Z or ↶ undoes.

Untick Trueforce EQ to bypass it. The curve is kept for when you turn it back on.

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