Behringer DEQ2496 HELP

Funny you say that Tvad, the first time I AEQ'd I thought it sounded like crap too. I really don't know what I did, but the last time I tried it, it sounded MUCH better. Anyway, I also ended up tweaking.

If you use auto eq be sure to input your own curve. Here's an excellent article regarding how to adjust eq written for the DEQ 2496:

http://www.prijsindex.net/tmp/room%20acoustics%20and%20eq.html

The one Behringer gives as a default is not very good imo. Also you have to learn how to adjust the bass. The bass is critical and will affect the entire presentation.

Most important though is to learn what affects what. It takes some time to do this well. Fortunately you have plenty of latitude on adjustments.

Thank you for the link, Warnerwh. I have several balls in the air at the moment, but I will take a look at the link in the next few days.

I am aware that bass tweaking is extremely important, and this is where I've been focusing much of my attention.

Tvad...I never tried the stereo autoEQ. My impression is that it just transfers results measured for one channel to the other one. That doesn't sound right to me. Perhaps it drives both channels for the measurement. Is that so? (Now it's your turn to be the Behringer expert!)

Smooth, rather than flat is the most important thing about bass response, and the flat autoEQ will give you this, so it is a good starting point. Your tweeking to achieve a frequency response that sound good to you can be done when you set up the target curve for the autoEQ. Many people find that they like different curves for different types of music, and the Behringer memory feature accomodates this.

Warnerwh,

That link you gave is very good advice. Could not agree more with the authors criticism of many speaker designs.

I would only add that even if serious room acoustic treatments can be disappointingly ineffective for very low frequencies.....Soffit mounting of speakers is well known to be effective (by professionals).

There is a good reason for soffit mounting....it eliminates the problem of omni-directional bass frequencies which radiate towards the wall behind the speakers creating havoc with quarter wavelength cancellations. (The wall behind the speakers has the single biggest effect on the bass sound in a room as it creates the biggest coherent reflection....the second biggest issue is the wall behind your listening position...third are side wall reflections in mid and upper frequency ranges)

BTW....why do cheap car stereos systems often sound pretty amazing.....it is actually very simple, two words....Soffit Mounting.

BTW...why all the recent interest in bass traps....more speakers on the market that are nearly flat anechoically to 20 Hz, which radiate in all directions in the bass and play havoc with room modes...

For those who think it was as simple as buying a speaker flat 20 Hz to 20 Khz...do some research!