Calibration Plugin?

thermos · Post by **thermos** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 6:45 pm

Anyone know of a freeware calibration plug thats better than the one that omes with DP? Like one that does, white noise, specific frequencies, etc?
Did a search, couldn't find any.
thanks

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:17 am

I use http://mda-vst.com/
they have free AU plugins (UB), one of them is called TestTone - Signal generator with pink and white noise, 1/3 octaves and sweeps

you have to insert it in an audio track and enable input monitoring (I write this because it took me some time to figure it out ; )

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:06 am

What are you trying to calibrate?

Siryne · Post by **Siryne** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:34 am

Audio Ease makes a free program called "Make A Test Tone" you can find it at: http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Free/MATTMain.html

thermos · Post by **thermos** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 11:57 am

Thanks for the replies. Yeah, the mda vst one is working great. Don't even THINK of trying to use the au versions, one instance will send your cpu off the handle.

I'm calibrating my Portico compessor to get the levels to match and the unlinked compression to be the same.

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:44 pm

gotcha...cool.

oldguitars · Post by **oldguitars** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:58 pm

make a test tone is not free, but it is good. It is a stand alone and it works great....

gearboy · Post by **gearboy** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:34 pm

thermos wrote:Thanks for the replies. Yeah, the mda vst one is working great. Don't even THINK of trying to use the au versions, one instance will send your cpu off the handle.

Why?

chamelion · Post by **chamelion** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:36 pm

One of the world's best-kept secrets would have to be Audacity. Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. It provides a handy test tone feature that I've found useful and reliable.

Geoff

vier-personen · Post by **vier-personen** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:39 pm

thermos wrote:Thanks for the replies. Yeah, the mda vst one is working great. Don't even THINK of trying to use the au versions, one instance will send your cpu off the handle.

I'm calibrating my Portico compessor to get the levels to match and the unlinked compression to be the same.

you use a vst-wrapper and it‘s still less cpu demanding than the au version? I don‘t have the wrapper and it never occured to me that the mda au plugs are heavy on the cpu...

how do you like the portico?

thermos · Post by **thermos** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:45 pm

Thanks for the audacity tip!

Yes, for some reason when I tried using the au versions of the mda (test tone and rephsycho!) they...
A: Didn't work properly,

and B: made my dual G5 cpu bounce up to 100%.

The vsts through the wrapper work way better, though are visually buggy.

Oddeo · Post by **Oddeo** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:38 pm

somewhat on the same tip.....I have a pair of Behringer Trush B2031A monitors, they sound great.....but! My studio is set up in a fairly small room. I have the monitors on monitor stands, they are about 2-3 feet from my face and are almost right up against the wall. I know that this is not the preferable setup, but it is how I have to do it at this time. The bass freqs hit about 5 feet back from me. Though I have some fairly nice monitors I end up using my headphones for the mix a lot of the time. Any suggestions on how I can calabrate my set up so that the monitors give me a more true sound where I am sitting?

Thank you,

grimepoch · Post by **grimepoch** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:42 am

Get a copy of Fuzzmeasure and an unity gain mic (behringer makes one). I use this with a digital EQ between the output of my 896 and the monitors (well I did when I was using monitors that needed EQing). I used the Behringer DEQ2496 as it is not supposed to introduce phase delays (it's a digital piece). By doing this I was able to really balance out the monitors.

As for bass, I bought a sub. For awhile, I just used a run of the mill Sony one, but eventually got a TS-10 from Tannoy.

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:25 am

grimepoch wrote:As for bass, I bought a sub. For awhile, I just used a run of the mill Sony one, but eventually got a TS-10 from Tannoy.

Was it you who recently got some Adam A7s? Are you using the TS-10 with the Adams? How's it working out?

Or am I confusing you with someone else?

Phil

Phil O · Post by **Phil O** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 7:30 am

oldguitars wrote:make a test tone is not free, but it is good. It is a stand alone and it works great....

I know I downloaded a free version of that at one point, but when I went back to the site to check for updates I couldn't find a freebie. Did they discontinue the free version?

Phil