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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
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Streetdaddy...Try analog.
streetdaddy
349 posts
 
What do you mean? I am going all digital from computer to airport express to behringer. I thought this was the best way, as to avoid going digital to analog a couple of times. Am i missing something?
racarlson
68 posts
 
Streetdaddy - did you EQ the channels separately? If so, the likely explanation for clipping on the left is that some bands are boosted enough to raise the digital level enough to clip. In the Utility menu, Page 1, there is an option to reduce EQ gain offset. You may also want to manually reduce the bands that have very high boost, which could be an artifact of mic position (e.g., a room-induced bass drop that is hard to fix with EQ).
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Streetdaddy...FYI I had to Google "Airport Express" to find out what it is. Yes, extra A/D and D/A are theoretically best to avoid. But a digital chain such as you are using needs to be consistent with respect to the format of the digital data. I think that the airport express has an analog output. Try it and see what happens.
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.
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