Hey all!
I'm trying my best to find a simple way to time/phase align my sub and monitors. I'm using a MiniDSP nanodigi to induce latency to line up the waveforms of a single tone that both my monitors and sub share. I figure that the most important region to get aligned would be near the crossover (80 hz in my case).
So, I've generated a short 80Hz pulse and recorded the response through just my monitors (genelec 8030c) and with a umik-1. Then I play the tone and record the output with just the sub.
But the issue is that there seems to be a "warm up" period with my monitors so I don't know what "peak" to align to. My subwoofer doesn't have this warmup period issue (the first oscillation is the largest). The other issue is that the amount of delay needed to align the sub to my monitors is dependent on the frequency of the test tone. I figure phase doesn't really matter much outside of the crossover region so I'm hoping this won't be an issue.
Is this approach just fundamentally flawed? Would aligning to an IR be a better route? Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
I'm trying my best to find a simple way to time/phase align my sub and monitors. I'm using a MiniDSP nanodigi to induce latency to line up the waveforms of a single tone that both my monitors and sub share. I figure that the most important region to get aligned would be near the crossover (80 hz in my case).
So, I've generated a short 80Hz pulse and recorded the response through just my monitors (genelec 8030c) and with a umik-1. Then I play the tone and record the output with just the sub.
But the issue is that there seems to be a "warm up" period with my monitors so I don't know what "peak" to align to. My subwoofer doesn't have this warmup period issue (the first oscillation is the largest). The other issue is that the amount of delay needed to align the sub to my monitors is dependent on the frequency of the test tone. I figure phase doesn't really matter much outside of the crossover region so I'm hoping this won't be an issue.
Is this approach just fundamentally flawed? Would aligning to an IR be a better route? Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!