Studio lies and how to fix them
Added 2020-04-20 18:30:18 +0000 UTCHi!
Over the past couple of years, I've been slowly collecting knowledge and tips about how a room impacts the sound of studio monitors - and this video includes every useful insight I've been able to gather.
The first step is awareness and then come the proposed solutions. It turns out that while speaker manufacturers go to great lengths to manufacture monitors with a flat response, the minute you put those in a room, all hell breaks loose and what was once flat becomes very curvy.
As usual, I'll be including these and more in the April book update!
All my best,
Ziv (flattening curves on youtube as "Loopop"...)
Comments
Hi Erik, indeed. The purpose was just to illustrate the point and since most people don't have an interface with more than two outputs, I wanted to make the example accessible for people at home. But for sure, if you had an interface with 3 or more addressable outputs, a better test would be to feed the loopback using one output (say, REW to ARC 3), and then send the processed output to the speakers using two additional outputs (left and right).
2020-06-18 14:21:13 +0000 UTCHi Ziv, can you describe the loopback hookup and Ableton routing you used for measuring the results of the various corrections? If routing one of the main outputs back into an input doesn't that then only get you one speaker/side of actual audio?
Erik
2020-06-18 08:13:17 +0000 UTC
