Getting Started with Manual Calibration and REW
Tune Sound to Your Space!
Manual sound calibration with just a microphone and REW is not easy to get started with.
Since audio calibration requires some basic knowledge of REW and calibration concepts, this guide takes you through them in an easy-to-understand fashion.
What’s In the Book?
- Basics of calibrating so you can transfer your knowledge to any other software package in the future
- The basics of Equalisation and EQ types: e.g. graphic, parametric, IIR, FIR, etc including detailed explanation of Parametric Equalisers (PEQ)
- Explanation of room interactions and receiver setup including how to set up your receiver to be ready to calibrate
- How to use the REW manual to install and configure REW
- How to read the main chart types in REW
- How to measure both subwoofers and main speakers and how to design PEQ filters for your receiver or external EQ box:
- Examples for subwoofer and main speaker calibrations
- Did you know that you can destroy imaging by using high Q PEQ filters above a certain frequency even though you get a flat response on the charts?
- 43 pages of detailed explanations
Manual Calibration with REW Guide Benefits
- Improved sound quality and speech intelligibility
- Maximised subwoofer performance with smoother and tighter bass!
- A basic understanding of calibration concepts that can be transferred to other tools
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I’ve read a couple of your guides now and am having a little trouble with microphone position instructions. I understand the boom is the best approach but am unclear what to do with a tripod otherwise. I have the telescoping tripod from miniDSP and am not sure if it’s okay to use the tripod on a chair in the MLP or can I only use it on the floor in front? I have tried putting it on the chair and the measurements appear much worse.
Hi CT,
Do you have either the YPAO, Audyssey or Dirac guides?
Putting the microphone on the floor or on the chair nowhere close to ear height is a very bad idea.
If you mean the little tiny tripod that comes with the UMIK, that is pretty much useless for proper multi-position measurement.
Now you could prop it up with pillows to get it up to ear height. But it’s not 100% ideal either.
Ultimately, you need to follow the mic patterns from one of those guides and to the letter. Putting a mic in front of a chair or on a coffee table is not great.
I have the YPAO, Dirac & REW guides as I have YPAO in a theater room (7.1) and Dirac in an open great room (with 4.2 on a Flex 8 DL). The tripod is the one you can add to a processor bundle on the miniDSP site. It fully extends to my standing height (which is useful in the great room) but I’m not sure how to use it in the theater room where I have a row of reclining chairs. I can definately put it at ear height on the chair and recline as you suggest. Would that be the best case usage short of using a boom? My YPAO version is only single point measurement.
Yes, that’s probably the best way then. If you only have one measurement position, then it must be exactly at ear height and preferably in-between your ears as you’d be sitting.
ty for the clarification. The MSO+Dirac room was good practice for multipoint measurements/EQ (MSO->EQ Front & Rear as pairs in REW->Dirac) so I want to rerun the YPAO config with extra seat measurements to EQ w REW (maybe mains & surround from 5.1.2) before running YPAO from single point..
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