pink noise, spectrum analyzers, and flattening

[kylen]

i'm on this other board and all of them are like "i am smarter than you i never use pink noise cuz i'm that awesome"

Whomever wrote this statement has misquoted the posts in this thread - I use pink noise all the time to test equipment settings and my acoustic space. Just cause I'm a home recording garage guy doesn't mean I can't hear or set up a great sounding system !

Take all the input you come up with in any forum, chew it up, spit it out - out comes your individual ideas. Some will be along certain standards - some will be wildcat McGuiver engineering (if you're on my budget!)...hehe all depends what you can get people to say - sometimes you can share some great stuff...

I'm heavily into m/s now - I picked that up over at audiomasters forum where we were yacking about something else - they don't know about m/s over here (according to the thread I started) but that's ok - I figured it out by getting around all over the place...see ya on the internet

 

[c7sus]

This guy is so attached to his position that he is ignoring the meat of the very post he uses to shame us here.

The reference says they tune the system so they DON'T have to use EQ, AND that the room was DESIGNED to be free off standing waves, flutter echo, etc.

Pal, the "system" IS the ROOM AND THE GEAR!

When they reconfigure the room for a different type ensemble, you think they just twist some knobs on an EQ???

Nowhere does the reference say they run some pink noise through a crappy Chinese mic and set their EQ accordingly.

This guy must be using English as a second language or something. I don't think he understood a single word that was posted here in reply to his question.

And I doubt he has any ambitions whatsoever to learn about treatments.

Oh well..............

Good luck over on that other board.

 

[cello_pudding]

yay, I get it now.

all you guys seemed to say is pink noise doesn't work...blah blah


rereading kylen's post, he makes a lot of sense now.


i just wasn't putting it all together.

 

[cello_pudding]

you guy's were totally not jiving to what i was saying and i not to you.

now i get what you thought i was saying, and now i get what you guys were saying.

the answers just didnt pull it together for me.


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Quote:
Originally Posted by cello_pudding
you all have basically said that its not going to work yet real studios use pink noise to flatten their monitors.

No... they don't... because the good studios would know better..........


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#11 Yesterday, 08:46
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I'm in a "real" studio and I'd NEVER do that.
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#12 Yesterday, 09:52
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Pink noise won't flatten your monitor but it'll flatten your cat's ears."

 

[chessrock]

Actually, I think you made it pretty clear in your very first post of this thread what you were planning on using pink noise and reference mics for.

And I'll assure you, that's most likely not what your studio owner buddy over on the guitar player forum uses them for.

 

[cello_pudding]

no, i still think it would have worked.

i would have created an eq for mixing only. it wouldnt have been used on the actual song...on what i was listening to...but not on the song...or at least the final bounced song.


it's all good now though.

 

[Robert D]

it wouldnt have been used on the actual song...on what i was listening to...but not on the song...or at least the final bounced song.

Man, I gotta lay off the pipe for a while, nothing makes sense anymore.

 

[Phosphene]

It's hard to do, my brother.