soundcard calibration check.

[terry j]

OK , OK, OK, I'm not too proud to admit I'm an idiot, twit and indeed a 'bear of little brain.'

I always struggled with the procedure in checking the soundcard cal file. Got it a few months ago, but due to certain problems, and increased facility with the program since then, decided to go back to square one and set it all up from the start, this time knowing what I was doing. This of course led me back to checking the soundcard calibration.

Everything is fine and dandy in the CALIBRATING THE SOUNDCARD section of the help files up to step 8.

Step 9 says " To check that the calibration has been successful, select the left channel and press AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENT."

Yep, you guessed it, the village idiot kept selecting the button labelled left just above the button labelled right ( under to the big red button in the SET INPUT panel ).

Don't do this, it will only lead to frustration and upset.

Instead, make the whole process a happier event by selecting ANY of the tabs next to the soundcard tab. Hopefully that is clear, would be better if I could provide a diagram, but it should be clear by now that i'm dumb.

In my defence, I spose I got the wrong idea because leading up to thgat in the setup it is emphasised that REW uses the right channel of the soundcard, so when I came across left assumed it meant the left channel, was pulling out rca's, swapping inputs and outputs, crying then sobbing...

I abase myself to the world so that others may benefit ha ha ha and that any future fellow travellers having trouble with this - as few as they may be - can find this ''sticky explanation'' and get on to the important task of setting up their soundsystem

lots of love

terry