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Calibrating your Subwoofers with REW & miniDSP, and Creating & Applying a House/Room Curve



00:00 Intro
04:06 Step 1: Plug & Unplug Hardware
05:50 Step 2: Subwoofer Configuration
06:41 Step 3: Receiver/Processor & Mac Configuration
09:48 Step 4: MiniDSP Configuration
12:42 Step 5: REW Configuration
13:29 Step 6: Level-Matching Subwoofers (optional if you’ve already gain-matched)
15:28 Step 7: Subwoofer Measurements
20:47 Step 7: Creating a House/Room Curve
23:50 Step 8: Applying a House/Room Curve

This week, I bring you an end-to-end REW & MiniDSP tutorial for EQing multiple subwoofers, and creating and applying a house curve. I have completed this tutorial using a UMIK-1 microphone, a miniDSP 2x4HD, and a 2015 MacBook Pro running macOS Big Sur. Many of the settings I have selected for this demonstration are personal preferences and not hard rules, so your mileage may vary. Feel free to experiment, leave your feedback on your experience below, and let me know if you use a house curve for your theater!

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