I use CARA (
http://www.cara.de/ENU/index.html) for acoustic analysis. Way more powerful than anything I've done with it, but it takes some time to set up and run.
Renderings are nowhere near as good and 3D Studio, but you get the general gist. It is extremely helpful for finding room modes, standing waves, first reflections, etc.
It also has a great speaker placement tool. I once spent a whole weekend doing sweeps and moving my subwoofer around to find the best location. I modeled my room (L shaped with level changes) in CARA and it told me the EXACT same location I found experimentally. The predicted frequency response was almost spot on too.
So powerful tool, not too expensive ($100 to $200 IIRC).
Great work so far and good luck!
Anthony
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 Thanks
This one was done with 3ds Max to take advantage of it's lighting analysis.
Would like to find another tool that can do the acoustical analysis, if one exists. |