Thread: VST Users: How's your tuning?

Here's my current setup:

Console for conencting all plugins
2x 31 band EQ (don't remember which one)
Frequency Allocator (Full)
4x Voxengo Delay

I have only used a little bit of EQing so far. i jsut used it to remove some peaking on the passenger side, but I really need to do more. So I have no answer on your EQ setup at the momment.

I read in the manuals for Allocator/Arbitrator, that it is best to focus on the low pass filters when setting up Arbitrator. I asked almost your exact question over in the Thuneau forums about slopes and gaps with arbitrator but I haven't seen any answer yet.

Also keep in mind that when trying to figure out what slope to use for Arbitrator, you need to use the elctrical slope+acoustic slope of the speaker. Really I just recommend experimenting unless you can measure and know for sure what kinds of slopes you are dealing with in the car.

I thought of another setup that would minimize plugins if you weren't going to use Arbitrator and wanted to use Allocator lite.

Console
2x any EQ
Allocator lite x2, one for left one for right.

By using allocator lite for each side, you can have independant phase inversion, time delay, level adjustment, and 4 band parametric EQ for each channel + whatever EQ you string it together with in Console.
Just some of my thoughts.

What kind of glith are you seeing with sweeps in arbitrator? There will always be some nulls and peaks in a cars frequency response. It's called comb effect or comb filtering.

I'm looking at experimenting with Convolver and Room Correction. Have you considered this at all?

Originally Posted by durwood

I read in the manuals for Allocator/Arbitrator, that it is best to focus on the low pass filters when setting up Arbitrator. I asked almost your exact question over in the Thuneau forums about slopes and gaps with arbitrator but I haven't seen any answer yet.

Thats interesting. The glitch i was talking about are some "tic tic" during the sweep. Ill try to figure out when exactly i get this.

Originally Posted by durwood

Here's my current setup:
Also keep in mind that when trying to figure out what slope to use for Arbitrator, you need to use the elctrical slope+acoustic slope of the speaker. Really I just recommend experimenting unless you can measure and know for sure what kinds of slopes you are dealing with in the car.

I dont really know how to figure out what is the electrical slope or the acoustic slope of my speakers. Ill search about it. If you have any usefull link about it, they are welcome.

Originally Posted by durwood

By using allocator lite for each side, you can have independant phase inversion, time delay, level adjustment, and 4 band parametric EQ for each channel + whatever EQ you string it together with in Console.
Just some of my thoughts.

Good idea. Ill try whit Allocator full to see if my CPU can handle it.

Originally Posted by durwood

I'm looking at experimenting with Convolver and Room Correction. Have you considered this at all?

Really interresting. But the hard part seem to record the car impulse response...
Have you ever tried it?



About Electri-Q, does anyones have some experience with it and the different modes?
Ive tried the Linear IIR (take a lot of cpu) and Linear or Maximum mode. I finaly took the Maximum phase setting... Dont know if it is the best either and if its good to use it even whit the midrange and tweeters...

Originally Posted by BenOBS

Thats interesting. The glitch i was talking about are some "tic tic" during the sweep. Ill try to figure out when exactly i get this.

The "tic tic" is probably a resource issue or latency problem. I have an ever so slight tic tic going on as well, but you really need to listen for it. I think there might have even been a few posts in the thuneau forums about it but I'd have to do some digging to find it. If you go with Allocator lite I think you won;t have that problem, but you don't get arbitrator.

I dont really know how to figure out what is the electrical slope or the acoustic slope of my speakers. Ill search about it. If you have any usefull link about it, they are welcome.

Acoustic slope is where the speaker rolls off naturally on its own. So if you are using a crossover point at the point at which teh speakers frequency plot drops off, then you have to include that slope too.

Ex: midrange rolls off at 200Hz @ 12db/octive and your corssover is set at 200Hz @ 12db, then arbitrator should be set at 200Hz @ 24db.

I have not had enough time to attempt measuring impulse repsonses and do room correction either. That is something I plan on experiementing with this winter. I ahve downloaded a few programs to do this, just haven't had the time.

Sorry I can't help with the EQ for now.