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Behringer DEQ2496 HELP

After reading the raves about this product, I finally bought one along with the matching microphone tonite. Put in my system, eager to try room correction. The first 2 attmepts produced some curves that I wasn't crazy about, but seemed plausioble. Now, all it does is push all the bands above 125 all the way to maximum boost, and all the bands below 125 to maximum cut. When displaying the RTA of the pink noise, there is nop more htan a 15 dB range between the highest and lowest levels on the curve (as if that were small!)Also, one of the primary reasons I bought it was for equalizing low frequency room problems, yet it suggests htat anyuthing below 100Hz not be included in the auto EQ.
Does anyone know why it is coming up with such odd equalization curves, even though it is reading the data, which doesn't look so bad? Also, how bad is the product at low frequencies?
honest1
streetdaddy
349 posts
 
Eldartford,
The airport express has an output that senses what is plugged in {ie mini jack vs optical} and outputs digital or analog depending on what type of cable is used. The beauty of this is i am using my wireless laptop with itunes to feed the airport express which outputs a digital signal to the behringer and then i use the analog outputs into my Rowland Concerto. I don't know why my first attempt with the behringer sounded muffled. I ran it again and it sounded much better. I now need to run it one speaker at a time, because my room is assymetrical.
streetdaddy
349 posts
 
Ok, finally making some headway. For some reason when i did an auto eq it was boosting 20 hz{lowest freq} +15db and this was screwing everything up. I have an asymetrical room, and they highs are cut on the open ended side. Does this make sense? The speaker closer to the wall was pretty flat.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Streetdaddy...Glad to hear that you are making progress. My room is also very asymetrical and every speaker of the multichannel system is different. If +15 dB caused clipping your signal level must be on the high side.

What is the 20Hz EQ for the other speaker? I would try swapping the speakers...perhaps the problem (need for +15dB) is in the speaker - not the speaker location.
ecruz
402 posts
 
Make sure your speakers can go to 20 Hz. My speakers only go to about 26Hz, the first time I ran auto eq, 25Hz was boosted a few db and 20Hz was boosted a LOT. If your speakers can't go that low, it could put strain on your amp and/or speakers.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
And to add to Ecruz's observation, if your speaker can't do 20 Hz (and few can) set that frequency to -15 dB so as not to waste amplifier power and to avoid futile effort by the speaker.
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