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Post by sinatra on Jan 10, 2020 0:57:55 GMT -5
Hi all I am a bit confused how to load Ansat's House Curve into my setup. I have run Dirac and got to the create filters page. I understand that each group of speakers has their own measurements when finished. I also understand that you simply hit the Load button and choose a saved curve. I am not sure if the House curve is for all speakers including the sub or without the sub because Ansat has got a separate curve for the sub as well. Am I supposed to link all the speakers together and load the house curve and then load the sub one specifically against the sub? Lastly does it matter that I am trying to load a curve that was not measured in my room? This is what I have been using for my guide emotivalounge.proboards.com/thread/42055/building-target-loaded-dirac-beginnersThanks for your help with this |
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Post by wilburthegoose on Jan 10, 2020 7:39:11 GMT -5
After playing with house curves for months, I tried the suggested Dirac curves. Guess what - they sounded a LOT better than what I was trying to implement.
PS - Ansat was extremely helpful in helping me understand how this whole thing works. Just because I didn't end up using his curves doesn't mean I don't appreciate all his hard work!
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Post by fbczar on Jan 10, 2020 8:23:04 GMT -5
After playing with house curves for months, I tried the suggested Dirac curves. Guess what - they sounded a LOT better than what I was trying to implement. PS - Ansat was extremely helpful in helping me understand how this whole thing works. Just because I didn't end up using his curves doesn't mean I don't appreciate all his hard work! Can you show an example of the curve you like vs the custom curve you were trying to implement? |
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Post by fbczar on Jan 10, 2020 8:50:08 GMT -5
Hi all I am a bit confused how to load Ansat's House Curve into my setup. I have run Dirac and got to the create filters page. I understand that each group of speakers has their own measurements when finished. I also understand that you simply hit the Load button and choose a saved curve. I am not sure if the House curve is for all speakers including the sub or without the sub because Ansat has got a separate curve for the sub as well. Am I supposed to link all the speakers together and load the house curve and then load the sub one specifically against the sub? Lastly does it matter that I am trying to load a curve that was not measured in my room? This is what I have been using for my guide emotivalounge.proboards.com/thread/42055/building-target-loaded-dirac-beginnersThanks for your help with this Yes, Load all the speakers together, including the sub and overlay one custom curve for all. You may find a paper called "A Brief Guide To Creating Custom Target Curves With Dirac Live", to be helpful. It is key to understand what Dirac can and cannot do when designing a curve. As such, you need to be able to read the graphs generated by Dirac so you can tell what is a room null, which cannot be effectively addressed, and what is a "dip" at a certain frequency that can be boosted. Dirac is very good at lowering peaks, less effective at boosting dips and incapable of boosting nulls. Therefore, it can be necessary to design a curve that pulls down peaks and does not try to boost nulls. The publication referenced above explains this pretty well. It would be instructive to overlay one of Ansat's curves and see and hear what the effect is. Ultimately you will need to customize a curve to fit your measurements. Also, as a way to learn, consider drawing the curve manually rather than loading it as a text file. Then when you get close to what you like, create a curve in a text file that will be more precise and load it. The work Ansat did on Dirac with the XMC-1 is most impressive. |
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Post by wilburthegoose on Jan 10, 2020 10:24:15 GMT -5
fbczar - that's a fantastic description!
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