Best Way to Tune Your Enclosure and Set Gains Based on your Music Library

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

This is a basic tutorial on how to find out your range of

frequencies you need to hit to help you tune your enclosure and also how to properly use a proper test tone to gain match based on your music choice rather than just guessing or using a random 0 db test tone you normally find online and losing out on some good output.

The video will also show you how to know if your music files are clean or filled with clipping and distortion.







Use in conjunction with response graphs of winisd to get the bass response you want out of your system with your enclosure design. As you know, not all subs will have a flat response in a ported box, there are tradeoffs you have to make especially if you have space constraints.

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[big scott]

do a vid. using winisd .. im trying to learn that.

also thanks for that vid, good info. as im still learning that also. thanks......

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

eventually lol.

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

I tried following your instructions and you lost me after download audacity lol i tried using a corrido and itS just all high toned music wanna do it for me? Haha

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

I tried following your instructions and you lost me after download audacity lol i tried using a corrido and itS just all high toned music wanna do it for me? Haha

open up the folder where the music is at and drag the music file over. If you are on a mac, the options are ALL the way on top of your screen, on the mac bar. I got confused as fk when I tried using audacity on a mac too lol.

 

[C1500martin 10+ year member]

yea i did that and where i put analyze i didnt get where the low notes wherre and the tone dbs and stuff all of it was in the thousands and like -50db i had NO i dea what i was looking at lol

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

yea i did that and where i put analyze i didnt get where the low notes wherre and the tone dbs and stuff all of it was in the thousands and like -50db i had NO i dea what i was looking at lol

there's the 20hz, 40hz 100hz on the bottom of the graph is where your bass should be. You basically need to look for peaks so corridos, you see a lot of stuff at the 60-100hz range, just hover your mouse over that area and it will show you underneath, theres two db ratings, one is cursor which is where your mouse is pointing to, the other is peak frequency which is the frequency where the bass is hitting the hardest in that group of frequencies.

 

[trumpet 5,000+ posts]

Audacity might not be set to the right type of graph. In the Frequency Analysis window the Axis drop-down menu needs to be set to Log frequency. Just make sure the settings look exactly the same as you see in the video.

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

Audacity might not be set to the right type of graph. In the Frequency Analysis window the Axis drop-down menu needs to be set to Log frequency. Just make sure the settings look exactly the same as you see in the video.

thanks for the catch, added the annotation on the video, forgot the its set to linear when you first download it.

 

[LongThrow]

Very useful info!! Will put my box buildin skills to work soon.

 

[The Camry]

i listen to alot of EDM. Music ive gotten from good sources at 320kps. and it still has a huge amount of clipping. Yet when i look at the spectrum graph, it only goes to -6db...Whats up with that?

 

[Jeffdachef 5,000+ posts]

i listen to alot of EDM. Music ive gotten from good sources at 320kps. and it still has a huge amount of clipping. Yet when i look at the spectrum graph, it only goes to -6db...Whats up with that?

set your size to 4096, mouse over the highest peak and see what db level you are at.

You might want to try the amplify option to remove some of the clipping. Sometimes even with 320kbps still have clipping. The song could be produced with inherent clipping in the tracks.