Room calibration for Genelec 8331's

[mindburner]

hi
I have been a user of the venerable 8030A's for over a decade. These have served me very well and still sound amazing.
I decided to upgrade to the 8331's and they arrived last week. These are connected via analogue. I have the GLM kit

Out of the box these speakers sound great, if a little bass heavy.

My studio space is far from ideal. I mainly write electronic post punk music and have gotten used to the sound of the room and mix and master using a known good record. Basically I know what a decent mix should be and try and match this. This approach works quite well but was hoping to be able to totally mix analytically.

I have GLM and ran calibration. I was pretty shocked as the sound was now devoid of bass and quite toppy.

My room has lots of keyboards in it and as I say is not great acoustically but it's the room I got. It's not as bad as in the attached image now, but still bad.

My question. Maybe the software cannot properly adjust for all the stuff already in my room. And apart from getting another room, is there anything I can do to make things better. Maybe i'm so used to a certain sound and that the calibration result was correct and i'm not used to that, but it was devoid of bass. Sorry if this is dumb but i'm new to calibration and room treatment in general.

Best regards
Alan

 

[vsch]

Congrats on your new amazing speakers! I have no experience with GLM but am pretty sure that it allows you to boost the bass below ~100 Hz by adding a low shelf filter (or, maybe better, reduce the highs with a high shelf filter above ~100 Hz). The default calibration is probably flat which tends to sound overly lean.

 

[Mort]

Maybe i'm so used to a certain sound and that the calibration result was correct and i'm not used to that, but it was devoid of bass.

The 8331 should be able to replicate the bass of the 8030. GLM does leave things pretty flat, which typically sounds like bass is lacking.

We're you using any of the dip switches on the back of the 8030?

 

[mindburner]

Congrats on your new amazing speakers! I have no experience with GLM but am pretty sure that it allows you to boost the bass below ~100 Hz by adding a low shelf filter (or, maybe better, reduce the highs with a high shelf filter above ~100 Hz). The default calibration is probably flat which tends to sound overly lean.

They are truly great I have to say. I know it's my situation and not the speakers as some of my mixes sound good after calibration and some not so much. This is especially true after I used the sound profiller as you suggest to up the bass 1 DB. Professional tracks mostly sound good but one can hear mistakes even on these tracks. Genelec have been amazing also in helping me with this. I'm just new to all this and have previously just plonked downa a decent set of monitors and hoped for the best

 

[mindburner]

The 8331 should be able to replicate the bass of the 8030. GLM does leave things pretty flat, which typically sounds like bass is lacking.

We're you using any of the dip switches on the back of the 8030?

hi thanks for the reply. I was able to use the sound profiler in the GLM software to add a little bass lift which helped a lot. I think part of my issue is that I was just used to a certain sound that was inaccurate. I was able to compensate by using other known good recording and trying to replicate their sound, so I was happy to find many of my mixes were not that bad. Other though had fuzzy mids and other oddness. Quite the eye opener