[Dream] Calibrating monitors?

[phile]

uhhhh ahhhh .... quite touchy and quite confusing .... especially from what
I am reading from prior posts. :)))))

First off -- generally you calibrate levels, not frequency response -- you
can tune your room (with hardware eq)
but this is really not advisable. Calibrate to a standart level -- although
there isn't really a fixed one -- you have
rp-200, k-sys, the european -18dbFS blah blah .... (personally fan of k-sys
and I am calibrated to that at home)

Second, yes, the problem very well could be from the room. Room acoustics
play a huge part in your mix and post-.
And yes, with an RTA mic you are compensating the monitors... The fact that
nearfields are close to you doesnot
mean you're not getting any reflections :-P, just that they can be closer to
you and that they won't be able to
push the spls for mastering :-P and don't have the frequency range of
loudspeakers ... really a poor-man's
solution for semi-good monitoring.

>Judging by the feedback I got on the latest track I posted here, I
>think that maybe my monitors produce too much bass, so I'm wondering
>if there is some easy way to calibrate monitors.

I am sorry I missed that feedback, but were they saying you don't have
anough bass in your track?!!? You know it
could be bass buildup in the room, causing you to underjudge your bass... ;)
Also what kind of monitors do you use
and what is the setup -- meaning distance from your ears to the center of
the driver and also distance to the wall
behind them and are they front-ported or rear- ?!?!

There are a lot of factors you have to take under consideration to trouble
shoot a problem like yours....

OO yea... and a good rta is in the thousands ... :-| And yes -- there are
audiophile measurement cds .... :) (again
mostly used for room treatment) -- Bowers &Wilkins has some ... and also ...
oo there are a few around jsut do a
search on google, but again they are quite useless if you don't know what
you're doing ;) ... Along those lines
check out the videos at real traps (http://realtraps.com/videos.htm) they
will help understand some common issues
with rooms...

With all this said I would advise you to learn your setup rather than trying
to modify to parameters you don't know :( ..
Listen on a lot and different systems you rmixes, make notes, go back to the
mix and compensate, repeat the
process till you get to the point where you're happy with the results...

P.S. No, active monitors don't color the sound that much or in other words
-- yes, passive crossovers are better BUT,
they are in the thousands to be worth it and that is excluding the amp,
which in this case plays the biggest part probably
 :-O and for production scenario this is not really .... valid ....  uhh
then why is that my actives sound much better than
my friends passives :P -- same model adn everything :-P ... it all depends
on the amp .... and the crossover :-P

....my 2c....
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