Eliminating bad acoustics (within reason) via plug-in?

[Morgan C]

I had a thought.. would it be possible to EQ the sound of your room to allow for an even response across the spectrum? What I mean is using a sine wave across the whole spectrum, picked up by your mic. You create an impulse from this, or a Curve-EQ or whatever, and then you apply the opposite of that to your recorded signal. Say your mic picks up a boost at 50Hz of 10dB, the impulse or EQ would then cut 10dB at 50Hz so that you have a flat frequency response. This wouldn't help with reflections and all that, but is this a realistic idea or am I dreaming and missing some vital thing?

 

[Machinated]

The mic will only pick up the source from one position in the room, so unless you stay in the same place it will be pretty useless.

 

[grywolf627]

This has been done for yeeeeeeears with graphic EQ. And still done by many "audiophiles". And when I argue (constantly) with my audiophile friends about just using some simple acoustic room treatment to make the WHOLE ROOM sound nice instead of one tiny listening sweetspot, they give me this look like "how dare you suggest such a thing...to not use my expensive EQ". Fine...whatever. But then again, their speaker cables probably cost more than my monitors.

Like Ed said...treat the room...and have a much larger listening area. EQ the room (which I had to do numerous times in a previous pro A/V installation job many years ago)...and it will only sound good from that one spot from where you mic'd/analyzed.