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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?
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Don't mean to crash the party, but I just wanted to add that I've put a DSP8024 between my preamp and the power amp bass channels in a biwired & biamped system with ML Aerius i's, and it works a treat for correcting my room's 80Hz resonance with -6db correction. Since my preamp has two pairs of outputs and the DSP8024 doesn't touch anything over 400Hz, I'm not worried about signal degradation - midrange & treble remain pristine.

The auto mic gain sets to +80db for Auto EQ even when the pink noise level is set to -32db, which is not loud but well above ambient noise. Not sure if this is relevant to the discussion about the DEQ2496. There is no auto level for pink noise on the DSP8024, and there is no indication in the manual or on any display regarding the appropriate pink noise or mic gain level. Still, it seems to work well.
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