As a side note, USB Mic I listed already as first option ;-)
Yes, first option... Regarding your further explanation, just let other readers decide themself how to interpret this.
Your additional information will be surely helpful :-)
"will" - dont know what if you meant my post 6 or sth further?
Regarding your link to the youtube video: As i understood this - he doesn't measure anything.
Its just like playing some sine waves/ variable frequencies from REW via speakers and listen "by your ears" if something in your room makes noise due to resonance etc...
Edit: Oh, i just noticed, later in his Video he uses a SPL Meter (what is some kind similar to a whatever mic). But - who has a SPL Meter at home? I personaly only got a few times in touch with these when the Police stopped me to check if the „db-eater“ of my motorcycle was accordingly installed ;-)
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Anyhow, i try to share just my personal experience. I should mention, that i do this all with REW. No guarantee, if i understood everything correctly! But thanks for correcting, if i msunderstood sth.
Afaik i understood the whole roomEQ (for supported RME units) / pEQ (for the ADI-2 x units) sense - please correct me if i am wrong - the final goal of a measurement is to get the individual "overall" measurement (included room/position/speakers/monitors and all the hw related stuff, etc). And finally a .tmreq/.txt or .adieqpr file will be dropped, which you can import into the unit.
Fact (afaik): To get a real frequency/SPL measurement (where you can adjust the pEQ filters in REW afterwards) you always need to send a signal (from your speakers) and record it (via whatever mic).
If you want to use a "normal/usual" Mic for this, you need:
1) First measurement: A soundcard where you can do a loopback via connecting a physical cable from out to in (not a digital loopback via TM FX) to get the freq response measure (soundcard calibration) of its DA/AD converters
2) Next measurement: A Microphone plugged in to the sondcards Input and (IMPORTANT): A mic with its individual calibration profile (= the mics frequency response cure). This profile can be a imported as calibration file (provided with "measurement mics") or if you use a "normal" mic you can also provide its response curve via a a csv/txt file abbreviated from its data sheet. Of course, this is usual not as precise as the "measurement mics". (But in my case enough as a starting point to get deeper in this)
F. ex: I tried with a old tbone. I just found this poor graph for it:
http://recordinghacks.com/pdf/tbone/dat … uk_web.pdf
(a shame - no dB values, no frequencies, provided - but this was what i had, and i put some things together...
... and used a free online tool to get the values as a csv from its diagram:
https://apps.automeris.io/wpd4/
imported the results in REW to get its response values...
You cant use a "normal/usual" Mic for this, if you are not able to connect it to the input to do a physical loopback or connect a Mic to the input of the soundcard
1) If i understood the REW docs right, the only way out is a USB Microphone for this (as i already described)
2) afaik - latencies, etc, due to this are compensated by REW for measurements. So regarding room measurements this should not really matter.
Edit 2:
But - if you also want to be able to adjust the delays in roomEQ accordingly - you will surely have to involve the latencies, and the distance from mic to speakers in the whole calculation.
-> this will be my next exploration. I ignored this until now.
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