Hugh,
I don't have a mic, but I have an SPL meter. Although  the meter is
cheap, I believe it has been calibrated.

I am able to plot the FR curve with test tones and a spreadsheet. I've
got data with and without equaliser (obviously, I'm looking for a flat
response with equaliser). By plotting the difference in db, I can see
the actual effect of the equaliser. I will post graphs a bit later...

At the moment I'm using the 9 band equaliser, and according to my
measurements its effect follows nice diagonals between the 9 points.
Good work :-)

Except, one fly in the ointment is the bass area. The effect of the
equaliser seems to be much less at lower frequencies. I have some
pretty big troughs and peaks in a narrow band of frequencies in the
bass, and the equaliser is not modifying the signal as dramatically as
the equaliser settings are asking it to. (The real effect of the
equaliser settings at higher frequencies seems to be much greater and
certainly nearer to the settings.)

So my questions are:
1. Is it possible to have a *setting* of more than +/- 12db for the
equaliser, or is there a technical reason why the effect of the
equaliser diminishes at low / narrow frequencies that makes this
pointless?

2a. Would a room correction filter display the same type of behaviour
as above?

2b. If not, do I need to do a frequency sweep with a mic, ADC
etc? Or, is it possible to artificially create a WAV file from my
existing measurements?

Many thanks, Darren


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