First time measuring speakers, could use help

[Guest]

I will be attempting to measure a new pair of speakers (first time) and am just looking for a little advice on how to proceed. I was planning on using speakerworkshop, its free and I'm broke so it seemed like a match made in heaven but I have read time and time again that it has a steep learning curve and is far from intuitive so I'm wondering what else is out there thats affordable and good enough to take some decent measurements. So far I have a Berhinger mic, mixer/preamp, xlr & 1/4 cables and a WinXP PC with stock sound card. Thanks in advance.

[augerpro]

Well considering the price you don't have much to lose in trying it out. Make sure the soundcard is able to this though.

[Sefferdog]

Try this link, makes it pretty simple.

http://soundhobby.com/measurementsystem.htm

[ThomasW]

Try Arta...a link to it and many other programs can be found here...

http://www.htguide.com/forum/showthread.php4?t=25707

[tyler]

Well considering the price you don't have much to lose in trying it out. Make sure the soundcard is able to this though.

I second that. I would also question the soundcard. Is there an actual card in the pc or is it integrated onboard audio.

BTW, I checked out the link to your web pages. Nice job!:T

[Dennis H]

Thanks Tyler but I think you must mean Hong's page with the Arta setup. Mine just has an old pic for a home page and a few hidden files to download.

http://www.crestviewcable.com/~catapult/

[tyler]

Thanks Tyler but I think you must mean Hong's page with the Arta setup. Mine just has an old pic for a home page and a few hidden files to download.

http://www.crestviewcable.com/~catapult/

Yes, that was a typo and I have corrected it.:B

[PatG]

I found the Soundhobby site presents a grossly oversimplified proceedure for setting up ARTA for measuring, there are at least a dozen little steps missing. In the end I keep getting a "feedback" sigal on my graph when I perform a single channel frequencey response measurement. So once I hit record all I see is a ragged signal across the spectrum even with all the input and output conections removed. I'm getting a signal from the mic preamp to the sound card because I get feedback if the gain is too high, its just that when I begin recording the mic output (input/left at the soundcard) is ignored in favor of this internal source. To add insult to injury I keep reading about how increadably easy this software is to use ops:, I must be retarded. Well, retarded or not I would still like to measure these speakers so any input would be greatly....greatly appreciated. BTW I am using the ubiquitous ECM 8000 mic and Xenyx 802 mixer.