Hey guys,

last week I made a sine sweep check in my room and...well it become clear to me for the first time how bad my acoustic environment actually is. Now I'm looking for ways to enhance it.

My first idea: a system wide EQ to cut all the peaks I have in my frequency response. Why system wide? Cause I want to listen to music in Itunes, Youtube, ... with the same frequency response that I mix with later on.

Do you know any software that does the job?
I already tried
-Soundflower/AULab, but with no luck (had the problem of actually hearing two signals at
the same time/feedback problem)
-Boom2, but you don't have a Q-knob/detailed frequency axis

BTW: Im on Macbook Pro, OSX Sierra
I also heard of the APO Peace EQ, unfortunately only available on WIN
Hope you can help

Greetings
Josh

 

You want an EQ? Not DIY room treatment to fix the problem?

 

@Baxter
More often than not both are needed.

 

Most of the time, you can't fully optimize your room with acoustic treatment, so you tweak your frequency response with an EQ (for details)
!

 

You are right you cant fully optimize your room with treatment. Never the less its your starting point.
Treat your room.
Use a calibration software like Sonarworks or IK ARC etc.

If you are going to to do both and get a software you can start to measure your room with the software. Than you see what the problems of your room are. And you can decide what treatments are needed. If you check the correction eq.
Only the eq wont help you mutch. Treat the problems and use the software to optimize the last little bit.

You cant get the same results only from the software as if you treat your room. The treatments are the bread and butter. The correction eq is the icing on the cake. With no treatments you probably better off with good headphones, morphit and wavs nx. Instead of messing around with corrections eqs.

So your sytem wide eq should be a room treatment ;). Thats even more than system wide ;)

 

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I have friends who are acousticians and you always start with your room. You can go very, very far with basstraps, absorbers, QRD-, skyline-, broad/narrowband diffusers, superchunks, Helmholtz resonators (for specific standing waves), etc. Usually you don't need (or want) EQ, as you want the signal to be as clear as possible.
Speakers have a relatively flat frequency response for a reason, and you fix your room/CR accordingly. Some speakers are suited for bigger rooms while others are suited for smaller rooms, ofc.

You can ofc use EQ to "tune your room", but that would be to start at the wrong end of things. The problems will still be there.

 

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Sure, by no means it could replace bass traps and stop reflections.

Always start with acoustic treatment and go with it for as much as possible your situation and budget permits (it can go quite high), but, depending on the situation, it can only get you to a certain point where eq might just save the day.

I do that in my studios and I also know many guys who have killer systems, custom acoustic treatment and still use correction systems like Trinnov or even Dirac; for a few dBs here and there eq is so much simpler and efficient to use. Of course, one really has to know what they're doing.

 

Why not just use the Sonarworks Systemwide software? Its on the sister site so you could fully try it our before buying.