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Title: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 29, 2010, 07:10:24 PM
This is a mac only tutorial:

my room is 11x14. I have posted previously about trying to tame a null at 70hz. I had twelve  4" panels placed mostly near the front wall.  Fran and Ethan and others recommended placing more absorption on the rear wall.  

I moved my desk forward to the front wall so the speakers were about 6" from the front wall/window. I placed 1 panel on each front corner and 1 on each side and 2 above me. Then I placed the remaining 6 panels on the rear wall corners. Scoped the room with EQ Wizard and it fixed the 70hz mode. Now I had a more usable roll off below 100 down to 30 with no deep nulls.

I have seen so many talks about people using the audyssey eq. Ethan has done an excellent write up on how it just doesn't work. There are also so many products on the market as well. Ergo, ARC, and the JBL 4300 series etc. Do they work? I set out to find out. Following Ethan's Advice I downloaded Room EQ Wizard and looked into the Behringer eq's etc, but I had a problem with that. I use Adams and an apogee converter. I certainly didn't want to go through another stage of low end conversion and DSP. I also didn't want to drop money on a suitable parametric and be limited to 4 or 5 bands.

I thought what can I use to be able to insert plug-ins into my bus and be able to use the same eq plug-in to listen to my Itunes library and other media sources?
I would also need to be able to send Room EQ Wizard into logic and then back into the built in line input.

ARC ($500) does this inside of Logic or other DAW, but what if you want to hear your bounce or other media through it?

The trick would be then to get my systems output into Logic and then to my apogee.

Solution (Free):

1 Download Soundflower from cycling 74.
2. Set the System preferences to output to Soundflower 2ch. Set the input to Built in Line Input.  
3. Go to Audio Midi and create an aggregate device and add Soundflower to it after your sound card. Make sure the built in lines are not used in the aggregate.
4. set the default input to built-in line input and the default output to soundflower 2ch and the system output to soundflower 2ch
5. open logic set the i/o to aggregate device.
6. create a stereo audio track and set the input to the soundflower channels. they will be the ones right after you main I/o on my symphony system 1-32 are for that and ch33-34 are for soundflower.
7. connect your measurement mic to your preamp and then output the pre to the built-in line input on the back of your mac. I use a xlr to 1/8 cable I had to buy.
8. open room eq wizard and go to the preferences. under soundcard set the output to default device and input to built-in line input. back in logic insert 3 linear phase plug-ins on the master bus and lower the fader to about -4.
10. open soundflower. it does not have a GUI but a flower will be up on the top task bar with a drop down list. set its output to none.
9. go back to logic. on the sound flower channel hit the "I" when it lights up yellow/orange the audio from your system including itunes will input here.    

you now have your system setup so that all sound is routed through logic. This will allow you to measure your room. enter your eq settings into the Linear phase eq's and re-measure. this will also allow you to monitor all of your other media through logic so you can take advantage of the EQ Correction.

I was able to dial in an almost flawless low end response curve in my room with 12 bands of eq and a low shelf boost of 6db. All this was free and it works, in my opinion better than adding additional conversion.

I would like to point out that I did not eq anything over 500hz. will post more on my mixing results and graphs later.

Regards,
Brett
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 29, 2010, 09:57:42 PM
room with all panels in the front of the room.index.php/fa/15331/0/
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 29, 2010, 10:01:42 PM
room after moving half the panels (6) to the rear of the room. notice the null at 70hz is gone. But now there is a mode between 100-200.index.php/fa/15332/0/
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 29, 2010, 10:04:00 PM
room after applying EQ. index.php/fa/15333/0/
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 29, 2010, 10:23:10 PM
 
As could be seen, the biggest improvement was evenly placing the acoustic panels in the room first. Then the eq allowed me to shape the low end from there with subtle cuts and boosts. Its not perfect but its pretty good considering the size of my room.  I am happy with the results.

Hope this will be helpful to some of you.

-Brett
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Thomas Jouanjean on August 30, 2010, 06:24:18 AM
"You can't fix a time domain problem in the frequency domain"

There is just no way around it. I have never heard good results from EQing a room and using DSP correction.

But if the results made a positive impact on your work, then it's all good.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: bruno putzeys on August 30, 2010, 07:30:34 AM
Thomas Jouanjean wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 12:24

"You can't fix a time domain problem in the frequency domain"

Of course you can. Time and frequency domain are the same thing seen from different angles. One reason why people don't believe it is because traditionally EQ's are minimum phase whereas acoustical problems are not, meaning that after correction you still have a smeared impulse response. If the EQ is a full FIR correction you can, in principle, correct everything...

BUT ONLY...

...in one spot in the room. Or n spots if you have n speakers. The issue has nothing to do with time vs frequency domain but with the fact that the room is a space and you have only two points (a pair of speakers) to control it by. If you have a dip at a certain frequency / spot, you will have a bump at the same frequency elsewhere. Correct the dip and the bump elsewhere gets worse. Room correction restricts you to sitting in one exact spot. That is why it doesn't work practically. However, if you are happy to have your head nailed down in one precise location you can remove everything. Echos, everything. Just don't move your head.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Thomas Jouanjean on August 30, 2010, 07:53:12 AM
bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 06:30

Thomas Jouanjean wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 12:24

"You can't fix a time domain problem in the frequency domain"

Of course you can. Time and frequency domain are the same thing seen from different angles. One reason why people don't believe it is because traditionally EQ's are minimum phase whereas acoustical problems are not, meaning that after correction you still have a smeared impulse response. If the EQ is a full FIR correction you can, in principle, correct everything...

BUT ONLY...

...in one spot in the room. Or n spots if you have n speakers. The issue has nothing to do with time vs frequency domain but with the fact that the room is a space and you have only two points (a pair of speakers) to control it by. If you have a dip at a certain frequency / spot, you will have a bump at the same frequency elsewhere. Correct the dip and the bump elsewhere gets worse. Room correction restricts you to sitting in one exact spot. That is why it doesn't work practically. However, if you are happy to have your head nailed down in one precise location you can remove everything. Echos, everything. Just don't move your head.


And thus, in my book it doesn't work in practice and has no real interest in studios. A good room should be quasi isotropic. Not a mediocre nail head sized sweet spot with everything even worse everywhere else.

I've also noticed severe degradation (in order of importance) of depth, "timbre" and stereo. Sound gets ghost like too.

Though I will recognize that the Trinnov guys etc, are all good engineers with excellent technique and deep knowledge of their field.

I've also good hope that these systems can compensate for some particular problematic speaker behaviours (phase issues etc). But I leave this discussion to speaker designers though.

Sorry I always sound like an old grumpy grandpa when these systems pop out Very Happy
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: bruno putzeys on August 30, 2010, 10:35:51 AM
Thomas Jouanjean wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 13:53

And thus, in my book it doesn't work in practice and has no real interest in studios. A good room should be quasi isotropic. Not a mediocre nail head sized sweet spot with everything even worse everywhere else.

Indeed, I only wanted to point out that time vs frequency domain is not what lies at the root of this. Which doesn't mean that it works, unfortunately! (sorry for the hordes who hawk these things, and even sorrier for those who buy them).
Thomas Jouanjean wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 13:53

Sorry I always sound like an old grumpy grandpa when these systems pop out Very Happy

No worries mon vieux, you're not alone. *waves cane*
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 30, 2010, 11:09:40 AM
I notice no weird modes anywhere when I walk around the room. As I said the low end was pretty evenly rolling off after acoustic treatment. The only real issue was a mode at 100-160 in the upper bass low mids. Using a some minor cuts and boosts it fixed the problem. In a small home studio my work space is only between my monitors and they are only 3 feet apart. So where else would I be making decisions but here in the small area where I know it is accurate?  

As said prior, I would not try and eq the highs, nor use eq to fix a null, but using eq to reduce energy that is omni directional does work, at least in this situation. You would be a fool if you thought a eq was going to make the entire room accurate.  But the measurement mic is located where it needs to be and that turned out outstanding in my opinion.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Thomas Jouanjean on August 30, 2010, 01:32:29 PM
bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 09:35


Indeed, I only wanted to point out that time vs frequency domain is not what lies at the root of this. Which doesn't mean that it works, unfortunately! (sorry for the hordes who hawk these things, and even sorrier for those who buy them).


Non-minimum phase issues do, yes.



Hmmmm... Ok, so how should we word this and then make it an *internet rule*?   Rolling Eyes

And of course, have it ™ for when we write a book.

Then we can brag all over the place and claim we are gurus because we wrote a book.

Sweet.

[/Eric Cartman Voice]
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Ethan Winer on August 30, 2010, 01:38:38 PM
bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 07:30

BUT ONLY...
...in one spot in the room.


Exactly. Yet people often report positive results with these products. My guess is their room has a bad peak, so reducing that peak helped all over the room. In most small rooms the nulls are more damaging. But in a square room, or 2:1 such as 10 by 20 feet, resonant peaks can be worse than the nulls. It depends on so many things.

Of course I'm totally with you, and the main point is that EQ improvements that help in one place are made worse somewhere else. Even a few inches away in many cases.

--Ethan
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Thomas Jouanjean on August 30, 2010, 01:40:58 PM
brett wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 10:09

 that turned out outstanding in my opinion.


And in fine that's what matters, period.

The issue is to know exactly what happens. There are so many possibilities as to why it can help a bit in a situation and not at all in another. The set of conditions in which you start are very important.

Then in the long run, how your work translate will tell the real extent of the improvement. (On a personal level, I always consider my job is done when after a period of 1 year+ of work in the new studio the client is still as happy as the first day).

Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Thomas Jouanjean on August 30, 2010, 01:52:32 PM
Ethan Winer wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 12:38

 Exactly. Yet people often report positive results with these products.
--Ethan


Often, the better the room the more you can hear the overall damage done by these systems. In the really good rooms it can be pretty brutal. It's like your 24bit file became an MP3.

Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 30, 2010, 07:30:02 PM
Ethan Winer wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 18:38

bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 07:30

BUT ONLY...
...in one spot in the room.


Of course I'm totally with you, and the main point is that EQ improvements that help in one place are made worse somewhere else. Even a few inches away in many cases.

--Ethan

not in this case. Not usually low end either in my experience. Highend yes where the wave lengths are smaller maybe. But low end response isn't drastic or noticible over an inch in my experience unless you are at the edge of a boundary. Eq in this case got rid of the boxy sound of the peak between 100-160. Bass tones don't sound so agressive anymore. And it helped all over. I turned off the eq and walked around. The peak could be heard everywhere evenly all over making the bass sound aggressive even on recording where the tone was smooth. The eq on and it was balanced all over.

important to point out that getting rid of nulls first is most important. a peak is more easily dealt with by eq as it removes energy from the room rather than add it like trying to boost a null which would add energy to the problem and is a losing battle.  

So, in this case it worked. Will it always? probably not. But the important thing to realize is that a balanced palcement of acoustic treatment is the best place to start as it got rid of the null. And I plan to add 12 more panels soon and reshoot the room. For now, the room is usuable and I didn't have to buy some gimic product with bad signal to noise issues or conversion or any expensive plug-in. Just smarter placement of panels I already had and some creative signal routing in my DAW.

Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: martindale on August 30, 2010, 07:44:42 PM
This thread seems to be about "external eq vs. proper acoustic design" and IMO, everyone's points are good and correct and valid.
However, I would take some exception to the thread's seeming "slant" towards external eq in the monitor chain being "evil".
I do totally agree (and really like the phrase) that the goal in acoustic design should be to build (or fix) rooms to be "quasi isotropic."
But it is a fact that most of the studio designers and room tuning gurus ( at least in the US) use some external eq to fine tune the room---not to correct large modal problems, but sometimes to make small corrections and/ or achieve a certain "curve", which can be VERY important to some engineers in some facets of studio monitoring.
I've spent 100's of hours listening to and working with various external eq's, in a very wide range of rooms--and some hardware does clearly sound bad. However, some products are very close to transparent, but I've never heard anything utterly invisible. As always, the use of any gear in the signal path has compromises.
Without external eq, some music production operations would be impossible. Try talking to Dolby about a film mix room that does not conform to an "X" curve....you won't get very far.  I don't think any designer could build a room and install speakers that conformed to an "X" curve without any eq. Having worked on a lot of film rooms, in close cooperation with Dolby, I understand the powerful need for standardization of monitor curves.
You may say, "but we're talking about music studios, not film rooms", but I would ask what about the many "music guys" who are more and more starting to add TV and indie film mixing to their scope, in order to open up additional income streams and get hip to the changing definition of "recorded sound media."  ...should these people tune their speakers to a small room "X"; or have multiple eq settings (shudder)?....these are additional thread topics, food for thought, but speak to the necessary use of external eq's.
As always, "buyer beware" and yes, some of the gizmo's being hawked out there are crap. I'd love to elaborate on that, but would get in trouble with some manufacturers. Some of the available external processors are amazingly powerful, if used judiciously. They can be very cost effective as well, compared to re-building walls in a room that has small issues; or, as an alternative to other filters and crossovers built as part of a speaker system. The use of any external eq in the monitor chain can be used wisely and with great positive effect, in different applications, but it won't replace good room design and acoustics. Brett's approach to first "deal with the room" was certainly good practice.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on August 31, 2010, 12:36:32 AM
This thread was sort of about external eq vs internal eq and doing it for free. However, it was not about using it in place of acoustic design and I don't know how many times I need to repeat that.

That is what the scientists started in on. This thread was for those on a budget in project studios with less then perfect rooms who didn't want to insert a cheap piece of kit into the chain and have no control over how it does what it is doing. Dialing in eq manually is the only way to go and only after you have taken the room as far as you can.  

You don't put Nu Finish on new car. You may use it on an old piece of junk and it may shine up the appearance of the paint but it wont work it there is body work to do too.  

Most studios on the project level don't design the room. We treat it. What happens when you have gone as far as you can with panels or space?

And you are right about curves. in a well balanced room a house curve is always dialed in for theaters and film mixing studios. I know engineers that have tweaked their mains as well to achieve a preferred curve. Why do you think my ADAM's have eq adjustments on the back or focals or any other studio monitor with eq or dip switches for that matter.   This was an experiment to see if it could help me with my problem mode between 100-200 without using an external device that would degrade the signal and cost money that I would rather put toward additional acoustic treatment.

The answer, and all of the science can't argue that it worked. Say what you want...It did.  And not just in a little space micro space between the monitors. With the eq on and off I can hear the same issue and same problem mode solved even if I slide side to side doing things.

I also have 12 panels up and the room has some advantages... a large window on the front wall. A stepped rear wall with 3 offsets which break up modes and it is open to other rooms partially on two walls the full length of the room and the rear wall. Its a loft. A lot of low end energy already goes out on its own.  

I plan on building 2' thick broad band traps in the offsets along the back wall and using the panels elsewhere. Hopefully at some point I won't need the eq to fix the room mode. I say "the" room mode as there was only one mode to deal with. But right now its a blessing to have figured out how to use digital plug-in eq  as a solution. The plug-ins I am using aren't degrading the sound ... to my ears they are correcting the problem and making things sound better at the mix position.... and that is all that matters in my room!

Cheers
-Brett    
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Thomas Jouanjean on August 31, 2010, 09:29:48 AM
brett wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 23:36

This thread was sort of about external eq vs internal eq and doing it for free. However, it was not about using it in place of acoustic design and I don't know how many times I need to repeat that.


I thought it was clear and a good way to do it all.

martindale wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 23:36


However, I would take some exception to the thread's seeming "slant" towards external eq in the monitor chain being "evil".
I do totally agree (and really like the phrase) that the goal in acoustic design should be to build (or fix) rooms to be "quasi isotropic."
But it is a fact that most of the studio designers and room tuning gurus ( at least in the US) use some external eq to fine tune the room---not to correct large modal problems, but sometimes to make small corrections and/ or achieve a certain "curve", which can be VERY important to some engineers in some facets of studio monitoring.


I've seen guys correct for speaker response with EQ. Giving them a shape or correcting a bit of boxiness etc. I don't have a problem with it at all, but I really leave this decision to the client. I don't feel I should get my hands into this as it is in fine a question of taste. One should try (and that's not always easy) to pick a speaker / mains system that already has features that fits one's tastes.

But I have seen White EQs on mains in the US with rollercoaster like 6dB boosts and cuts, and I can't help but wonder...

From discussions I had with engineers there I could not extract a general trend though. Some like it, some press the bypass as soon as they walk in.

martindale wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 23:36

Try talking to Dolby about a film mix room that does not conform to an "X" curve....you won't get very far. I don't think any designer could build a room and install speakers that conformed to an "X" curve without any eq. Having worked on a lot of film rooms, in close cooperation with Dolby, I understand the powerful need for standardization of monitor curves.
You may say, "but we're talking about music studios, not film rooms", but I would ask what about the many "music guys" who are more and more starting to add TV and indie film mixing to their scope, in order to open up additional income streams and get hip to the changing definition of "recorded sound media." ...should these people tune their speakers to a small room "X"; or have multiple eq settings (shudder)?....these are additional thread topics, food for thought, but speak to the necessary use of external eq's.


This is a very good point.

Am-I the only on here that finds it difficult every now and then to understand some of those standards? Some you can clearely see where they're headed. Some, it feels a bit like non-sense. I've done a few post-prod suites and movie venues and hence worked with companies specialized in installing these large systems. It's always been near impossible to get a proper answer to many questions I had for them. Dodgeball game.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Ethan Winer on August 31, 2010, 01:25:22 PM
brett wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 19:30

not in this case.


Understood. That's why I qualified my comment by mentioning rooms where large modal peaks dominate. But it's important to understand that even at very low frequencies the response can change greatly over very small distances. The graphs below show the response I measured at two location only four inches apart! (SOURCE)

--Ethan

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Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on September 01, 2010, 01:24:26 AM
Yes Ethan, but that room appears to have serious modal and null issues. Is there even any treatment being used in those tests?
-Brett
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Ethan Winer on September 01, 2010, 03:16:38 PM
^^^ That room is 16 by 11.5 by 8 feet, which is typical for a lot of home studios. Of course it has "serious modal and null issues." All such rooms do! Those graphs are absolutely typical. In any event, those graphs were taken with the room empty as part of this exhaustive comparison:

EQ Versus Bass Traps

--Ethan
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: brett on September 01, 2010, 07:44:19 PM
Ethan Winer wrote on Wed, 01 September 2010 20:16

^^^ That room is 16 by 11.5 by 8 feet, which is typical for a lot of home studios. Of course it has "serious modal and null issues." All such rooms do! Those graphs are absolutely typical. In any event, those graphs were taken with the room empty as part of this exhaustive comparison:

EQ Versus Bass Traps

--Ethan

I thought so, but the point of this discussion is using eq in a room that is treated. The graphs in a treated room are going to much more uniform over small distances and so will eq changes. Also some monitors exibit a much smaller sweet spot then others and the center ghost image can tilt  over short distances. Especially in a near field application.  
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: AndreasN on September 07, 2010, 09:30:25 AM
bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 13:30

If the EQ is a full FIR correction you can, in principle, correct everything...

BUT ONLY...

...in one spot in the room. Or n spots if you have n speakers. The issue has nothing to do with time vs frequency domain but with the fact that the room is a space and you have only two points (a pair of speakers) to control it by. If you have a dip at a certain frequency / spot, you will have a bump at the same frequency elsewhere. Correct the dip and the bump elsewhere gets worse. Room correction restricts you to sitting in one exact spot. That is why it doesn't work practically. However, if you are happy to have your head nailed down in one precise location you can remove everything. Echos, everything. Just don't move your head.


Is it really that easy? The ears are not a single omnidirectional observer in a close to point like existence in the room. They're 3D sensors with ability to discriminate time and intensity differences between the ears, and the sound is filtered (HRTFs) to have different frequency response depending on incoming angle. What may look like a good cancellation in a measurement mic doesn't translate to a good cancellation in the ears.

Given this starting point, I think it's safe to assume that room correction can never be successful to arbitrary degree, even assuming a listener stuck in a head vice.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: bruno putzeys on September 07, 2010, 11:09:01 AM
Yes, to make this true for a human listener instead of just a measurement mic you would need to put the listener's head there during the measurement as well. This strengthens my point: the more you want to get done from DSP based room correction, the narrower the range of conditions in which it remains valid.
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: Bogic Petrovic on September 24, 2010, 06:15:44 PM
bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 13:30

.......................
If the EQ is a full FIR correction you can, in principle, correct everything...
.......


I agree, and I think that we may add "at the expense of longer overall delay of corrected signal".

AFAIK 3ms is some maximum of latency that audio production people cannot easily perceive, and 3ms is only about 1m distance in acoustics Smile

For "off-line", audiophile like, listening of music, movie, etc I think that FIR correction introduced delay can be easily tolerated...

However, for audio production... i think not. Smile

bruno putzeys wrote on Mon, 30 August 2010 13:30


With all other
BUT ONLY...

...in one spot in the room. Or n spots if you have n speakers. The issue has nothing to do with time vs frequency domain but with the fact that the room is a space and you have only two points (a pair of speakers) to control it by. If you have a dip at a certain frequency / spot, you will have a bump at the same frequency elsewhere. Correct the dip and the bump elsewhere gets worse. Room correction restricts you to sitting in one exact spot. That is why it doesn't work practically. However, if you are happy to have your head nailed down in one precise location you can remove everything. Echos, everything. Just don't move your head.

I agree
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: franman on February 18, 2011, 11:20:48 PM
Sorry I missed this one while it was hot.. great topic and good conversation.. good one guys!!
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: martindale on February 19, 2011, 10:20:32 AM
Just an interesting/ funny add on this: recently visited a music venue installation, Meyer main system, with their Galileo DSP processors....but with old school White 1/3 octave eq's before the input of the DSP.  I asked someone on the install crew---not the system designer, unfortunately couldn't speak with him---what the White's were for if the extensive DSP was in line. The reply was, "to warm up the sound."
Title: Re: Free EQ room correction in a small room, Room EQ Wizard Rocks!
Post by: franman on February 20, 2011, 10:39:22 PM
Did you get an impression of the Galileo?? I've got one going in on that Acheron system that we spoke about.. wondering what it's like... (do I need to "warm it up").. lol... Confused