room calibration

[medic999]

Just wondering if anyone does it and/or if it is worth it. I followed a tutorial on YouTube on how to use a program called Room EQ Wizard to take spectrum analysis of my listening position and create a very accurate eq setting to place on my master bus to compensate for frequencies I had too much of or was missing.

 

[szymon]

I don't think it's any good. You can tame problem frequencies a bit, but nulls will always be nulls, so boosting it won't help you. Also, calibration is applied for one specific position, so if you move your head a bit, it will sound quite different and you won't be hearing "the truth" (well.. you won't hear it anyway ).
It would be way better of you if you learn how to listen on your monitors, and know your room well. Also, you could try to put some bass traps in your room (i'm assuming that low end is the biggest problem here). I have some of these in my room, and it helped a lot to "heal" my 124Hz bump, and low mids are more linear. Still got problems with 40Hz though...
Anyway - try looking at John Sayers forum for info about acoustic treatment.

cheers.

 

[Firaxis]

I'd say build some bass traps as well, I recently got all the materials I need to build 5 for ~£60. How trustworthy is EQ wizard? If you can't trust it totally then you won't be able to trust anything you are hearing and always second guess your work.

 

[mva801]

Yeah the biggest consensus has always been room treatment... Bass traps and/ or acoustic panels. Check out GIK or ATS acoustics and go read the 7 million threads on Gearslutz in the studio building forum...

Spending $300-$400 on room treatment is going to give you MUCH better results than buying a new plugin/ monitors/ room eq or whatever... It's very important...

 

[medic999]

cool thanks for all the advice guys!