Fre Speakerbuilding and NORMALIZING Software

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Free Speaker and NORMALIZING Software

Hi everybody.

I just downloaded some Freeware from this site:
They have software that Designs speaker boxes (and several Pro sound companies have used an evaluated the software and said it was good. That was how I found out about it.

They also have some freeware to NORMALIZE (Mastering process) your Files.
For those of us (like myself) who don't use Multitrack Wav recording progams-this is cool!
Here's the link.

http://www.linearteam.org/winisd.html

Tim
 
WinISD is a nice free application, but it will only get you in the ballpark. Driver parameters usually differ quite significantly from the manufacturer’s specs. You’ll need to measure them. Various real world factors also make boxes, especially ported boxes, differ from what a simple calculator will predict. You’ll need to measure and tune them as well. The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook is a good starting reference.

Oh, and pro sound manufacturers are hardly the model of great speaker design. I think most of them must honestly believe it doesn’t matter how a speaker sounds, as long as its loud...‘Hey, that’s what equalizers are for’. They’re getting better at studio monitors, but 99% of sound reinforcement speakers still SUCK.
 
barefoot said:
WinISD is a nice free application, but it will only get you in the ballpark. Driver parameters usually differ quite significantly from the manufacturer’s specs. You’ll need to measure them. Various real world factors also make boxes, especially ported boxes, differ from what a simple calculator will predict. You’ll need to measure and tune them as well. The Loudspeaker Design Cookbook is a good starting reference.

Oh, and pro sound manufacturers are hardly the model of great speaker design. I think most of them must honestly believe it doesn’t matter how a speaker sounds, as long as its loud...‘Hey, that’s what equalizers are for’. They’re getting better at studio monitors, but 99% of sound reinforcement speakers still SUCK.
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Hi barefoot,

I wasn't talking about Pro manufacturers-I was talking about gys who build proprietary systems on a major Professional Scale.
I'v designed and built tons of enclosures, some designed by hand-som with software such as Bass Box5.0 (The first Windows version I ever bought-before that it was all DOS)
I was just posting that there was some Freeware available.

Tim
 
thanks for the info dude.some of us need all of the help we can get.
jim
 
Hi Tim,

Cool. Are you still doing it? Unfortunately I don’t build speakers for a living anymore. Now I’m developing optoacoustic measurement tools for a monster computer chip maker. Hopefully that all will change very soon, and I’ll get back into the fun stuff.

On the software side I mainly used LEAP, as well as some Excel macros and Mathmatica routines I developed for diffraction simulation. As far as hardwear, I still have LMS but I sold my MLSSA.... sigh. I rarely get to use any of it these days.

Anyhow, I hope my comments about WinISD will still be useful to someone just staring out.
 
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