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Does anyone have more detailed instructions for use of the DEQ2496 beyond the nearly worthless Behringer manual? The DEQ2496 is an extraordinary piece of equipment but not very intuitive and the manual does not help.
Thanks!
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I suggest you read the manual a couple of times and experiment with the device, as the saying goes there are many way to skin a cat(!), I use analog inputs and output of the DEQ2296 and it works wonderfully, I also the autoEQ feature, but only for selected frequencies.A few points to note,
A microphone is absolutely essential, preferably get the ECM8000 (as it has a flat frequency response, which absolutely essential for measuring.
The ECM8000 requires phantom power mode to activated, the microphone has to be place at least 1 metre off the ground, otherwise floor reflection will skew the results.
The easiest place to start is the Graphic Equalizer (GEQ), however the AutoEQ is not intuitive. You set a desired in GEQ, Start the RTA (Real Time Analizer) and select autoEQ.
The copies part of the GEQ curve, press start AutoEQ, which then does weird and wonderful things to the curves otherwise know as correction :-) and your curve dissappears.
Now you have to go to the Real-Time Analyzer (RTA) in mic/oupt input mode to see how close the resulting curve matches the one that you built with GEQ! Intuitive? err No.
That said, it is wonderful tool, that does exactly what it says on the tin. I counsel you to forget the various myths surrounding the digital and analog inputs, the analog inputs give you more flexibility, and jitter becomes a non-issue.
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"I counsel you to forget the various myths surrounding the digital and analog inputs, the analog inputs give you more flexibility, and jitter becomes a non-issue.
"Bad advice. This device is only truly transparent in digital in/out mode with adequate jitter control at least coming out. The analog out is really not very good sounding compared to a good DAC or the moded version of the Behringer.
OK, I found an answer to my own question! This link points to a description of how to program a DEQ2496 for RTA equalization.
I tried those directions, but ultimately found (in my room and my system)that adjusting manually worked better than auto-eq. Auto-eq produced some weirdly exaggerated corrections at some frequencies and a sound that was a bit shut in when actually playing music.
Take your time and just start looking at all of the pages on every screen when pressing every button one at a time. You will see that most of the settings are kind af automatic and nothing that you need to change very often. Once you get it to make sound on the output, play around with the adjustments to see what they sound like. Keep what ever makes the sound better and undo anything that makes it sound worse.
I don't have anything extra, but I have found that rereading the manual several times, focusing on the particular section/function you are interested in, answers most of my questions. Like reading James Joyce...difficult but worth it. Good luck!
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