I am sitting in a room! Testing Room resonances.

Here is an interesting YouTube movie you should watch and preferably all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jU9mJbJsQ8

It is easy to do yourself to test what the room resonances are you might have in your recording spaces. Simply make a high quality recording up close of yourself speaking for example. Play this recording into your monitors and use a microphone some distance away to record the resultant sound of that close recording being played back in the room. (omni is going to speed this up bigtime)

Then playback the recording of the recording in the room back in the room. Do this many times. As you can see from the movie towards the end the speech becomes unintelligible but you can certainly hear what the room resonances are though. Be interesting to have a look on a spectrum analyser at what the various frequencies are that stand out along the way.

I would say this might change along the way. Then you could create an EQ setting that effectively notches these very dominant frequencies out and use it to control or neutralise the sound of your room to a certain extent anyway.

It is cool that video. I love the way things start to sound even a third of the way along or towards the end as well.

I'm a big fan of the Renaissance. 

....................or....................


you could just use ARC? 



and save all that time.