[LAU] Measuring the acoustical characteristics of my studio using FLOSS software?

Kevin Cosgrove kevinc at cosgroves.us
Wed Jul 23 15:46:14 UTC 2014


On 23 July 2014 at 7:52, Gabriel Nordeborn <gabbe.nord at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm in the midst of trying to treat my room acoustically, and I really want
> to do measurements of my room acoustically. Of course, I know way too
> little about this, and therefore, I need your help as always! ;) (if you
> reply to this e-mail, imagine I'm 5 years old when you explain stuff).
> 
> So, what I have is this:
> 
> - A set of studio monitors (Adam A3X)
> - A microphone (Senheiser MK4)
> - A room...
> - My studio computer with Linux
> 
> What I want to do, roughly, is this:
> 
> - Through a test tone(? test sound?) measure the frequency "response" of
> the room. I want to get a nice curve, like an equalizer, which tells me
> roughly how my room responds to the different frequencies.
> - I want to do this before and after I apply treatment.
> 
> So, my question is: How on earth do I do this?! Are there FLOSS tools
> available for this? Is it easy to do something as basic as this?

Try DRC (Digital Room Correction).  http://drc-fir.sourceforge.net/
There are scripts to help the measurement.  But, it's not all plug 
and play.

You can also try Room EQ Wizard (REW) http://www.roomeqwizard.com/
Which is free software, but no open source.

Cheerio...

--
Kevin




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