Auto EQ
The auto eq feature is intended for automatically adjusting an EQ to match a specified target curve. It is not designed to replace your ears! In the end you decide what sounds best. It is just a tool, use it wisely.
Warning: This feature is still a work in progress
Requirements
- Measurement mic
- Spare channel
Usage
- Make sure to disable / reset any EQ applied to the PA
- Connect the measurement mic to a free channel.
- Select
Auto EQ
from the main menu. This will open the "Measure" page. - Select the channel where the measurement mic it connected to. You should now see the RTA of the mic at the top of the screen
- Start pink noise at roughtly the level you will be playing
- Press
Measure
. The measurement will take ~3-5 seconds - Press
Next
to continue to the reference setup page On this page you can configure how the system should be calibrated - Use the
Baseline
slider to adjust the green0 dB
line. Everything below this line is assumed to be "too quiet", everything above "too loud". - Select the channel where the EQ should be applied, as well as the EQ which should be used. PEQ usually gives better results than GEQ.
- The
Target curve
can be used to apply personal preferences to the calibration. If you want to have more bass for example, or more mids. In this screenshot I want a bit more bass and a bit less 1kHz. - Press
Next
to calculate the resulting EQ. - The result will be shown at the bottom right. You can adjust this EQ before pressing
Apply
to apply the EQ to the channel - The top right shows an estimate of the the resulting spectrum. In this example you can see that the app is trying to reduce the signal at 50-350HZ as it was above the green baseline. The highs gets boosted because they were below the baseline in the measurement.
Warning: This feature is still a work in progress