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Old 06-11-2019, 08:58 PM   #1
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Default Software for testing Mic Pres

I'm gathering piles of mic pres in order to do some actual real world, quantified, not nonsense numbers to see just exactly how different these things are and especially to look at so many mythical or near mythical claims

I have been trying Rightmark Audio Analyzer, Plugin Doctor and Room EQ Wizard

Noise and frequency response measurements are easy enough in all of these programs, but distortion has been tricky

All three have THD analyzers, but what I really want to see is distortion vs level on these. It seems like all three just send a static level to check. Plugin Doctor seems to do it at 0dbfs as well which makes it tricky



Any suggestions on how I measure the distortion? The claim so often is that you can magically know at all times the level that is coming in and then you can "push" the mic preamp hard and reveal all this magic "character"

I really like the way this distortion chart goes, but I dont know which software it is
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