Help! Is my room okay? (REW results)

[Flaesh]

my mixes

Is it possible to listen to some of your mixes?

 

[Darkdays]

Is it possible to listen to some of your mixes?

I don't think this would help because if you haven't listened to it in my room, you couldn't tell how well it translates to your system, e.g. how much like that it sounded here.

But I will order a pair of studio monitors for testing and a 30€ Behringer measurement mic in the upcoming week and then come back with proper measurement results..

 

[Darkdays]

I've got the Behringer ECM8000 for proper measurement now. I downloaded the calibration file from their website, but REW can't detect it. None of the file-types REW is searching for is in the downloaded zip folder. It contains an "ODS" file, a desktop config file and a text document. How do I use it?

 

[AnalogSteph]

I would expect the text file to be the correct one. Add it as a mic cal file (to the correct input device) in REW preferences.

The ODS file ought to be a spreadsheet with calibration data in table format. Any modern office suite should read this. You don't have LibreOffice at least?

Note, stock cal files can be worse than useless, so be warned. No manufacturer has time to individually measure a cheapie mic like this.

 

[rdenney]

I would expect the text file to be the correct one. Add it as a mic cal file (to the correct input device) in REW preferences.

The ODS file ought to be a spreadsheet with calibration data in table format. Any modern office suite should read this. You don't have LibreOffice at least?

Note, stock cal files can be worse than useless, so be warned. No manufacturer has time to individually measure a cheapie mic like this.

To get the cal file, I had to enter the serial number of my Dayton mic. I suspect they are calibrated, but in a high-speed production process run by the production testing system.

Rick “got similar results as with the dbx calibrated mic used with the Driverack PA2 I installed at a church” Denney

 

[Darkdays]

Thank you! I guess then there's no point in calibration and according to the tutorial I will just point the mic towards the speakers.

 

[rdenney]

Thank you! I guess then there's no point in calibration and according to the tutorial I will just point the mic towards the speakers.

That depends on what you are measuring. There are strategies for measuring individual drivers, though I have little experience with that. But for room measurements, the point is to take advantage of the omnidirectional microphone. Most calibrated measurement microphones have a very small tip and are designed to be pointed straight up, at least when used for room measurements.

Rick "old pic" Denney

 

[Flaesh]

Behringer ECM8000

Something about https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/behringer-ecm8000-calibration-file.51366/