Recent content by Drew Neilson

Thanks for your consideration.

I'd like to write a script that asks me the name of the location--for example, my TV area--and of the position being measured--for example, MLP or left side--and then makes REW take sweep measurements on specific audio outputs--in my case, each channel on my AVR except for the LFE channel...

I need to know where the Java runtime environment executable is so that I can properly run an app that is unrelated to REW. I think that I did not install Java separately and got Java from REW's installer. Since it is already installed, then when I want to download other software that requires...

I decided to ask because I watched some YouTube videos in which REW was mentioned, and they pronounced it as R-E-W, and I was tempted to tell them in a comment to pronounce it as 'roo', and I realized that I'd better first make sure that I am correct. It turns out that although @John Mulcahy...

Is REW supposed to be pronounced 'REW' (like my name without the 'd') or 'R-E-W' (letter-by-letter)? I know that the program's full name is Room EQ Wizard.

I suppose that I could use my UMIK-1 for REW's multi-input capture feature because it offers two input channels, but then I wouldn't be able to simultaneously take a timing reference measurement, which is a trade-off that would probably be bad. Side note: in case it isn't clear by now, I haven't...

I'm just curious about alternatives to the UMIK-X that cost less--or that myself and other people might already own--and that work for REW's multi-input capture feature.

It occurred to me after I started this thread that even though my Surface Pro sees my Realtek and Kinect microphone arrays, it is possible that the individual microphones in each array might not be exposed to Windows and that the array is summed into a mono channel and exposed to Windows as a...

What array microphones are supported by REW's multiple simultaneous input monitoring and measuring or, if not actively supported, work with REW for that? I'm especially thinking about array microphones that people often own, such as game console cameras (Kinect for Xbox 360, Kinect for Xbox One...

Yes, but that doesn't really answer my most recent question. My most recent question boils down to this: when I am about to measure a subwoofer, and I click on "check levels", and REW reports a signal of about -40.0 dBFS, is that 115-40 = 75, or is it 105-40 = 65? Since the LFE channel has a...

Is REW's -12.0 dBFS default sweep level 93.0 dB or 103.0 dB? Is the 12 dB subtracted from 105 dB, which is full-scale for normal speaker channels, or from 115 dB, which is full-scale for the LFE channel? To this point, I've assumed that it is subtracted from 115.0 dB, and that when I click on...

In that case, I'll leave REW's sweep level at -12.0 dBFS and when I need to measure a subwoofer, I'll continue to change my MiniDSP's input gain to -28.0 dB, and when I need to measure a speaker, I'll change my AVR's volume to -18.0 dB; -18.0 + -12.0 = -30.0. I've already created a MiniDSP...

Funny, your question about the RMS Level value in the REW Generator and the Sweep Level value when doing a Measurement is very similar to my question, and your original solution of leaving those levels at their default values and adjusting your AVR volume until the SPL reads 75 dB is pretty much...

It would be easier for me to set the sweep level to -30 dBFS or -40 dBFS based on whether I'm measuring a speaker or a subwoofer, and then set the volume of the MiniDSP or AVR (or whatever other device I might use in the future) to 0.0 dB (reference/unity), instead of setting the sweep level to...

I guess that you're talking about avoiding the noise floor of analog connections by having the sweep level high enough to avoid it, and also having it low enough to avoid the upper limit of analog connections, whatever that limit is. What about the fact that the connection between my PC and my...