Specifications

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NOTE: If you cannot avoid a bad floor bounce, put the microphone on the floor. This
creates a short enough reflection time that the resulting comb filter is above
the audible spectrum.
Step 4: Compare Positions
It is important to make acoustical measurements from different microphone positions
to avoid being fooled by something that affects only one location, such as a reflection.
Move the microphone around and observe the effect on frequency response. For a system
covering a large area, you may want to average the measurement results from several
locations as a guide for setting up the system EQ.
Step 5: Set Equalizers and Delays
Setting equalizers and delays can be time consuming and typically occurs in two stages.
First, make the large adjustments to EQ and delay settings. The size of these initial
adjustments may sometimes seem daunting, but if you are confident in your methods
and and the sound improves, you are on the right track. Second, make the small changes
of just a few dB that can be the difference between a good and great sounding system.
Learn to recognize this transition.
When making changes to equalizer and delay settings, it is important to listen to the
system along the way. Walk around and make sure it sounds better and is not merely
looking good on your analyzer back in the amp room. Always make delay adjustments
before fine EQ adjustments. A combination of small delay and equalization changes
can completely change the character of a delay system.
Step 6: Critical listening
It is time to change identities and become a listener. Put on a CD (or other program
source) and walk the system. Listen in the front, middle, and rear rows and to the sides.
Try low and high levels and run the system though its paces. Turn the source off and
listen to everything in silence. Make sure that the noise floor is low enough not to affect
the dynamic range of the system.
Use familiar material and do not hesitate to listen to music others may not like. The best
material to evaluate a system may be so familiar that even you are tired of it. But as you
use this material to evaluate more systems, it becomes even more valuable in revealing
system response characteristics.