Computer based RTAs

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:52 pm

I know we covered this a few months ago, but I wanted to see if any of the new people had any sugestions.

So far this is what I am thinking.

for th sound card and mic amp (I found it for $130)
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/M ... ain-1.html

for the Mic (parts express for $50)
http://www.behringer.com/ECM8000/index.cfm?lang=ENG

For the program I am planing on demoing 2 maybe 3 and upgrading / picking my fav from there.
http://www.trueaudio.com/rta_abt1.htm

http://www.wavecapture.com/LspLAB3Std.htm

http://www.winmls.com/

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:12 pm

The sound card with preamp is a good choice.

I would suggest another mic. Behringer is poorly made, however they are decent cheap mics. I own a few Behringer items, and their quality isn't that great.
I would look into Earthworks, Rode, AKG, Studio Projects, Beyer, Oktava, etc...

I need to play with those two other programs. I've used the trial of TrueAudio RTA, I liked that a lot.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:16 pm

Oh, another thing is calibration. You will want the response curve of a microphone. I don't believe there are many mics with a flat curve at all frequencies (20-20k Hz).

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:19 pm

William from NOLA wrote:Oh, another thing is calibration. You will want the response curve of a microphone. I don't believe there are many mics with a flat curve at all frequencies (20-20k Hz).

Yeah I am pretty sure all the programs I listed have a mic / soundcard calibration.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:21 pm

I know the TrueAudio RTA one does. But I think it is for specific microphones... I don't remember now. I can play with it tomorrow night and give you some more info.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:48 pm

I just opened it up. It lets you do a mic cal and save it to file. That way you can load it when ever you need to.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:07 pm

Out of the mics you listed earthworks has a couple of measurment mics (the cheapest is about $600 bucks.)

I did find a few others that will work. What do you think about these?

http://www.samsontech.com/products/prod ... &brandID=2

http://www.zzounds.com/item--AUDTR40

The second is more than I want to spend, but if I can find it cheaper I might

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 1:18 pm

Well this is what I did.

http://www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product=3731104

http://www.zzounds.com/item--DBXRTAM

http://www.zzounds.com/item--MUP7311

and some wires

I will let you all know how it works come next week or so.

William from NOLA · Post by **William from NOLA** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 11:12 pm

looks good. DBX makes some good stuff. I have a freakin awesome compressor from them.

I don't know if you have a Guitar Center around you, but 9 times out of 10, you can haggle them down.

JeremyC · Post by **JeremyC** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:07 am

William from NOLA wrote:I don't know if you have a Guitar Center around you, but 9 times out of 10, you can haggle them down.

Yeah I kinda do, but its on base and their prices are way to high. Pluss they don't have much of a selection. They do have some car audio stuff, 95% of it is rockwood / pyle / and so on. They did have a JL 10W3 V1. I asked about a price and they told me all the lower the could go was 180. It was hard not to laugh in the guys face. Especially when the 10W3V2 is only around 160