|
Title: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: Pascal on April 07, 2015, 11:49:48 AM What songs do you like to test the overall sound quality of your system, looking for a idea of a song to tune my amp. A song that would make clipping easy to spot.
Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: ikethegreat on April 07, 2015, 01:21:55 PM These are useful when tuning your amp and setting crossover frequencies.
http://www.ronelmm.com/tones/ (http://www.ronelmm.com/tones/) As for a song, pick one in the genre you typically listen to that has good highs and lows. Make sure the file quality is good though. I like a lot of rock and heavy metal. I picked Bile - In league and Bile - Clones. Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: Pascal on April 07, 2015, 02:00:10 PM Damn that's not my style for sure XD
I might try different ranges of tones and confirm with a song after Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: timot_one on April 07, 2015, 11:57:08 PM For what you're doing, you are better off using music that you know very well that has a good range.
I listen to a variety of genres, so I play songs from most of them and adjust. There's a proper way to tune an audio system, but it requires some expensive equipment that not many people have. Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: Pascal on April 08, 2015, 08:45:00 AM I know using a digital multimeter (will refer as ddm) for a sub amp works fine (voltage reading with ohms law) , because it is tested at 50-60hz like the ddm is meant to be used with normal electrical house current. but for speakers, that are tested at like what, 100-1000hz for a midrange, the ddm is no longer precise. And then a oscilloscope needs to be used, and look for a flat spot on the wave sin curve. Sadly I don't have one yet, wanted to have one for a while now, useful as an engineering tool.
Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: timot_one on April 08, 2015, 10:48:27 AM An oscilloscope is a great tool to have. What is even more useful for tuning an audio system is a real time spectrum analyzer. Of course, you would also need a parametric eq to fine tune everything to make sure everything is flat and even.
Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: Pascal on April 08, 2015, 10:58:40 AM When you need that type of equipment, you no longer have the average audio setup :D
I'll use my ears for now ;) It's for them we do this after all don't we. Title: Re: Songs to test and tune amp and EQ. Post by: Pascal on April 08, 2015, 11:29:16 AM To return to main subject, I tend to like to use 80's and 90's song to do this, they got a lot a clean bass, various sounds range (using synthesizers) and some nice vocals too. it makes it quite easy to spot when something is not right.
|