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Post by Hexspa on Feb 15, 2023 20:16:06 GMT
Yes, I was referring to your potential purchase considerations. At least that's what I got from the end of your last post. You definitely want a linear omni measurement mic and not just any mic that'll do omni pattern. I don't think you necessarily need a calibrated one - I don't use any calibration - but it's nice if you can get it. The one I have is the Behringer ECM8000. The trendy one now is the UMIK-1 which is a USB mic. That one is calibrated but supposedly suffers from low-level noise. How much of a problem that is, I don't know. From what I understand they also have a UMIK 2 which I think is XLR.
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Post by jonas on Feb 15, 2023 21:38:31 GMT
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Post by Hexspa on Feb 15, 2023 22:54:22 GMT
Yeah, the sonarworks one has calibration to 30deg only with sonarworks software and strictly on-axis for without. Again, I don't use a calibrated mic so I'm not sure how important that'll be. What I can say is that I've used the ECM8000 as a voice over mic and it's terrible for that! Granted, I didn't have good positioning and omnis aren't for voice over but I don't think you'll get much use out of a linear omni for recording. Who knows, maybe you will - especially if you have a large or well-dampened space to help you get the most out of it. Here's an ECM for 30 euro: www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_ecm_8000.htm which is a no-excuse buy imo. You can always send it in for calibration later (or at least you could when I was in the market a decade ago). Since you're only getting, what, 4dB out of the calibration, I'd save the money and balance 2kHz and above with a tilt or shelf EQ - but it's up to you, of course. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention a potential upgrade (the salesman in me would be anyway). Neumann and Genelec offer measurement solutions which include measurement mics as add-ons for some of their monitor systems; the KH 80 and 150 and 83x0 and 83x1 respectively. If for some reason you were thinking about upgrading your speakers, you might want to hold off on your measurement mic purchase until you've combed through those options.
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Post by jonas on Feb 16, 2023 16:04:22 GMT
On the sonarworks page it says it has calibrations for all off axis measurements in TXT format too, could be they changed this and Thomann did not update their page. "Individual multi-angle calibration profiles for 0°, 30°, and 90° off-axis measurements in TXT format for third-party use" store.sonarworks.com/products/soundid-reference-measurement-microphone... about the monitors I just realized I have HS80M not HS8... they look similar though. I don't think I can afford new monitors and I believe my current ones are just fine considering that my room is kind of the bottleneck in terms of frequency response. I also have fairly flat planar magnet headphones to cross reference.
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Post by Hexspa on Feb 16, 2023 16:17:36 GMT
Right, I have the HS50 (with sub) and not the newer HS5 and I don't know what they changed. They're decent monitors, fairly low distortion but do suffer from a large and wide midrange peak (+10dB around 850Hz) so consider notching that down some; increasingly narrow directivity above 10kHz (not that most of us hear much there anyway) too. The HS8/0 has good extension so, assuming you get your room squared away, you should be set. They actually received a relatively low score on Audio Science Review (Harman grading) but the best monitors are the ones you can use right now. www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/yamaha-hs5-powered-monitor-review.10967/
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