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I just set up my new home theater after I became too disabled to leave my house. Figured gaming and watching DVD'S was better than completely walking away from life...I now game all day & watch DVD'S, I am TRYING to set up the most complex new receiver I ever saw! My head is spinning and so my journey into trying to custom calibrate and explore all of this has now begun. I was going to buy an $18.00 SPL cheapo meter at Amazon and as I read reviews, stumbled upon THIS mic and the others like it. I downloaded REW and TryRTA, Room Calibrator and a couple of other programs I found. Now, I sit here and with my iPad I used a free (junk I KNOW) to set all my speakers to equal from my recliner. Then I sit and read endlessly all I can, probably over a thousand threads the past 2 weeks and I am 100% lost. I look at all these graphs but have NO idea, what I am looking at, or for? Is there a source, better yet ANY form of video that shows and explains these programs and how you utilize or translate these graphs into useful data I can understand?
As I understand it, these programs I got like REW (kind of my favorite even though I have NO understanding of what the graphs mean) can not in any way help me do my set up for my new 5.1 system. But I think it is as good as it could EVER be it sounds so perfect. Actually now a 5.2 with an old Polk sub I added against advice from some over at the AVS forums:-) I understand, if correct, that these programs will just let me SEE how I have done? That would be wonderful IF I knew what it is I am looking at. Before I change directions and forget buying a cheap OR very nice and expensive CL-140 or CL-150 and go this way with the Dayton, I want to know I will somehow find a way to know what it is I am seeing. So where can I go, what can I buy to learn? I love the graphs, leaned how to read & understand the stock market long ago so how do I lean this? As I understand it, my new Dayton (or other brand) mic will act as an SPL using REW and the other programs? I tried an old mic I had from the 1060's and it worked! (even though I STILL can't sing...).
So is there a book, a website, a DVD or something I can find to educate myself as to what I am seeing with all these complex graphs? I would like to know if it is worth the investment to know what I have already done with this method, or just spend the money on a nice SPL to fine tune what I NEED to do. I will somehow end up doing both since that is all that make sense. Just that poverty sucks. If anyone can point me and my new shiny wheelchair to a direction of learning, I'll owe ya a beer and my undying gratitude! I'm gonna learn this stuff, somehow, someway ,
Mike
As I understand it, these programs I got like REW (kind of my favorite even though I have NO understanding of what the graphs mean) can not in any way help me do my set up for my new 5.1 system. But I think it is as good as it could EVER be it sounds so perfect. Actually now a 5.2 with an old Polk sub I added against advice from some over at the AVS forums:-) I understand, if correct, that these programs will just let me SEE how I have done? That would be wonderful IF I knew what it is I am looking at. Before I change directions and forget buying a cheap OR very nice and expensive CL-140 or CL-150 and go this way with the Dayton, I want to know I will somehow find a way to know what it is I am seeing. So where can I go, what can I buy to learn? I love the graphs, leaned how to read & understand the stock market long ago so how do I lean this? As I understand it, my new Dayton (or other brand) mic will act as an SPL using REW and the other programs? I tried an old mic I had from the 1060's and it worked! (even though I STILL can't sing...).
So is there a book, a website, a DVD or something I can find to educate myself as to what I am seeing with all these complex graphs? I would like to know if it is worth the investment to know what I have already done with this method, or just spend the money on a nice SPL to fine tune what I NEED to do. I will somehow end up doing both since that is all that make sense. Just that poverty sucks. If anyone can point me and my new shiny wheelchair to a direction of learning, I'll owe ya a beer and my undying gratitude! I'm gonna learn this stuff, somehow, someway ,
Mike
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