Volume Level & files

[John Mulcahy]

You can use the print screen button on the keyboard to capture an image of the whole screen, or Alt+print screen to capture the currently active window. The image goes in the clipboard, if you open the Paint application you can paste the image there and save it as a JPEG image that can be attached. This goes through the details: https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/screenshot.xml

In the meantime, a couple of questions:

What did you do to 'turn off the sounds mixer'? Best undo that.

What are you using as your microphone? If it is a miniDSP UMIK, it doesn't appear to be plugged in, note that the cable needs to be pushed pretty firmly into the back of the mic to connect properly.

 

[mkane]

Wow

 

[mkane]

sound mixer back on. It's actually a volume thing I believe

 

[mkane]

Mic plugged into the headphone jack in front of PC

 

[mkane]

This seems to do something with me talking into the mic.

 

[mkane]

Now I finally can make a measurement. Awesome. I have a clipping issue and it says to reduce input volume or processer volume? I'm all smiles thanks to you folks

 

[mkane]

Can't seem to replicate what I did last evening

 

[mkane]

Finally

 

[mkane]

And could someone decipher that graph, please? Thanks

 

[John Mulcahy]

Not quite time to celebrate yet, the measurement looks like noise.

What kind of mic are you using?

Are you getting signals from REW to your system now? If you open the REW signal generator and play a 1 kHz sine wave do you hear the tone through your speakers? The output you have selected claims to be a digital connection, but you indicated earlier you were using an RCA cable to link to your system, sounded like that was an analog link.

You have something called 7028574.txt.cal loaded as a soundcard cal file, which also looks to contain noise. You should clear that file.

 

[mkane]

Just saw your post john. I'll start over. I just made this measurement. If I can find it

 

[mkane]

Using a UMIK mic. Don't hear anything thru the speakers when playing the sine wave. I'' delete that file

 

[mkane]

de bug file

 

[mkane]

lets see

 

[mkane]

another.

Any better?

 

[mkane]

corrected measurements

 

[mkane]

How are these? Fingers crossed.

 

[John Mulcahy]

Looks a lot more plausible! Try setting 45 dB as the bottom SPL value and 105 dB as the top.

How are your soundcard preferences set up now?
You can save a measurement as an mdat file and attach that for a more detailed check.

 

[mkane]

No soundcard AFAIK. This measurement was taken 3 feet from the right speaker. MDAT file won't load

 

[mkane]

It's over 12,000 KB

 

[mkane]

rainman sorry

 

[mkane]

Let me try this. No go and it's shrunk down to 3700KB

 

[mkane]

better

 

[John Mulcahy]

That isn't a valid measurement I'm afraid.

It is REW's soundcard preference settings I was after - there is always some kind of soundcard involved, whether internal or external. Your file shows you are using the ASIO4All driver and that the input is the built-in mic input of your PC. I suggest you use the Java drivers, there is no reason to use ASIO with your setup. There is no sign of the UMIK-1, which is a USB device. Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, this is a UMIK-1:

To make meaningful progress the input and output selections and connections have to be correct. You need to be able to generate sound on the system using the signal generator and see the UMIK-1 in the input list.

 

[mkane]

Got that thanks. Thats the mic I using