goui

Chrome and Brave extension

goui

Different ear, different head, different sound.

goui runs the sound of one browser tab through a parametric EQ. AutoEQ gives a neutral baseline for your headphone. An eqbyear test tunes that baseline to your own hearing. The two stay apart as two layers, and Bass, Vocals and Treble go on top.

Get goui View on GitHub

Free and open source, under the MIT licence. goui is not in the Chrome Web Store, so you add it by hand one time. It takes about two minutes.

The panel, live. Press Listen, Tune and Library, drag a point, or hold A/B. The curve uses the real filter math. The spectrum is a stand-in.

How it works

Two corrections, kept apart. One for the headphone, one for your ear.

The sound of a tab passes the headphone layer, then the ear layer, then your taste, then reaches you.

A headphone has its own colour. AutoEQ measures it and writes a profile that cancels it, so the headphone sounds neutral. That is the headphone layer.

Your hearing is your own too, and no profile can know it. An eqbyear test measures what your ear still wants on top of the neutral sound. That is the ear layer.

The two layers add up in dB, so the merge is exact. Bass, Vocals and Treble go on top as your taste. The preamp follows the largest boost, so the sound never clips. Each layer has its own switch, so you can hear AutoEQ alone in one press.

Install

Four steps, one time. No build, no account.

  1. Download the zip. Open the Releases page and press the newest zip. Unzip it.
  2. Load the folder. Open chrome://extensions, or brave://extensions, turn on Developer mode, then press Load unpacked and pick the goui folder.
  3. Pin goui. Click the puzzle piece in the toolbar and pin goui.
  4. Click the icon. Open a page with sound and click the goui icon on it.
Install goui in four steps: download the zip, load the folder, pin goui, click the icon.

The README has a picture for each step, and a note about the Chrome warning on developer mode extensions.

Credits

goui stands on other people's work.

AutoEQ Headphone profiles by Jaakko Pasanen, under the MIT licence. EQByEar The hearing test behind the My ear layer. Material Icons Icon art by Google, under the Apache 2.0 licence.

goui itself is under the MIT licence. The full notices name every part, and say which of them travel in the extension.