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Old 22nd November 2007   #46
andrebrito
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I agree.... I talked to the guy from IK and he said a very poor room would see a marked difference. A well treated, professional room would see less of a difference, of course. I'm going for that 10% and a fix for the 125 Hz problem. I've listened to so many acousticians and spent so much money having them all tell me something different to do and I'm just sick of it. If this works, it'll be the best $400 I've ever spent. I would never hope that this could be a fix for a room that sounds like ass, but maybe for a room that is 80 - 90% there, it can get it closer to 100% and knock down that 125 hz.
Going to do you a small favour and save part of the money since you can do this (almost for) free...

1 - Grab a free version of SIR (SIR: SIR1 or ConvolverVST)
2 - get a flat omni mic: two cheap yet good choices are Behringer ECM 8000 and Beyer MM1
3 - Grab the software on DRC: Digital Room Correction to create the impulse responses. I'm sure there is other software available to create impulse responses (I remember this one Room EQ Wizard Home Page). You then have to create the FIR filter and place it in the convolution software. You have to do this for both channels separately.

The cost for this is basically the price of the mic, you can even try it with a regular mic just to see how it works and then do it again with a omni flat mic.
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