DEQ2496 Room Correction EQ Guide 

Excellent! The user guide for the Behringer DEQ2496 is difficult to understand, but this video makes it easy, and the practical advice is very helpful.

Great video. I just retired from my musician career and I now have one of these units sitting around. Was thinking of hooking it up to my home stereo. Great tips here about limiting the frequency range and adjusting the gain.

this is excellent. top marks for the negative offset info, to avoid programme dependent clipping where dB corrective boost has been applied. thank you sir. subscribed.

Ok, I bookmarked your video, I will listen to it many times, write it all down like an SOP and then I think I can do this for myself. I play live in Austin, Texas with a friend and we are an acoustic duo. We have about 4-5 different clubs we play at, we could analyze each club and name it in the memory... then recall it each time we go back there.... so cool

thank you for this really useful guide. I'd recommend to check different mic positions due to nodes and then compare the stored curves.

Just bought one and was perplexed how to use it. This was very helpful

Excellent work, this helped a lot!

Thank you for doing the video It really helped me 👍👍👍👍

Wow, what a clever correction system. GG!

Thanks for the reply we'll take it into consideration.

Thank you for taking the time to create this video, TensonUK. I am looking into RTA equipment for use in car audio installations. I would like to use the DEQ2496 with a quality mic to analyze and tune the car audio systems that I install or service. My question is this: would this be a good piece of equipment for that task? I am not expecting it to be as good as a $10k piece of gear. I am just (re-)starting my desire to do car audio installs, and I am looking for an affordable RTA with acceptable accuracy. I am not necessarily concerned about the EQ features of the device, although, I am sure I will get some use out of them. Also, I noticed that the DEQ2496 can do SPL as well. Is that feature fairly accurate? Again, it doesn't need to be fantastic, but a reasonably close reading would be a huge bonus to what appears to be a very nice piece of gear. We all know that many car audio enthusiasts care about SPL over sound quality, but I want to be able to tune a system properly because that is what *_I_* care about the most. The DEQ2496 looks to be a perfect solution, for me, at an entry-level price. Thanks for any help that anyone can provide. :D

Great Video

It's not that people don't, but there is an interaction between frequencies, especially the low end below 100hz. Some people will recommend using the auto eq in stages to try and limit this effect. The manual actually states to remove those below 100hz when running auto eq. The other misunderstood button is room correction. This cuts the high freq and boosts the low by about 1db.

Hello. do you know if it is possible to create a negative correction curve? selecting maximum +2 or 0 and correcting most frequencies for example -3 -4?

Hi, can i go in this machine with my digital optical output audio signal just to EQ my Bose PA System? Out from TV with optical cable and then in to the DEQ 496 and then out with optical audio signal into my Bose? Is this possible? Digital in-Digital out?

Assume you can do this for both channels? Always wondered if it's best to turn off pink noise from the channel that's not actively being corrected?

How clean is the AD/DA converters? I'm thinking of pushing the calibration of a friend's project studio but wondering if it would actually degrade the signal path from her liquid saffire 56 to the genelec 8040 that she has

This is great!

would this work for live PA , or would you change the default eq back to omit the frequenies below 250hz ?

I tried this the first time and it worked perfectly but now when I do it once I have edited the desired response I change to page 2 where you show it picks up your voice and it starts kicking out loads of pink noise for no reason. I then carry on to page 3 and hitting the auto EQ and it dose its thing but the EQ is compleatly wrong and between 1k and 20 it all at +12! Iv followed it through carfully but it keeps happening even turned the dam thing off and on again. Any reason for it doing this?

what am i doing wrong, cos it doesnt give me any pink noise when autoequing? it kinda sounds like it cuts out anykind of signal when starting autoeq

Hi Sir TensonUK I have a problem on my newly purchased deq2496 mic is not working. I follow what you have done in your illustration but failed. Any mic will work in this unit? Please help me, thank you very much

Emmanuel, The AD/DA is okay but not great. I've put a link in the video description where you can see the distortion of the analog output and how to improve it.

hello can it used for midrange like a dbx 3bx?

is it one or multi chanel eq??

Hola. Que opcion es mejor?, un FBQ2496, DEQ2496 o el DCX2496

After having this model for a few years it's power section is starting to fail me as they've been known for. Can anyone on here recommend a good alternative with similar features for my home stereo. Really liked this unit but it does have a longevity issue and I don't feel like sending it away for repair all the time. Thanks.

Equalizador Behringer. Deq 24 96 qual o valor

Can anyone help me with a firmware update please version 1

They probably blank out the settings at < 100HZ because errors in FFT algorithms used there usually get large at low frequency (frequency time tradeoff effects). I have seen the same on some pretty good analysers

How old is this 2496?

Hi i have a Question, I set eq in winamp (70 hZ +10dB) is this possible to set the same Eq in behringer ?I Guess Winamp have other "Q" that Behringer.

Just wondering that is it waste of money putting this in totally analog in my system?

The DEQ2496 is a brilliant unit (I own one) but why oh why did Behringer insist on making the UI so clunky and then supplying the unit with a virtually incomprehensible instruction manual? If they ever remade the unit with auto EQ (much like some of the other bass EQ units from HIFI manufacturers) then they would have the ultimate killer product. As I say, great unit but there's a reason why there are a multitude of how-to sites and youtube videos on how to get this thing to work!

can it be used as a USB ASIO soundcard?

My first impression is - Man ! Did You hear , how Your voice sounds on this video ? You are explaining how to set a system for a better sound and You could'nt manage simple voice recording ? It does'nt looks good ... I know It is to 5:20' when You swithing on auto eq , but it is a difference between condenser , measuring mic and what ? Unpowered one by phantom ? But it is a good tutorial explaining how to aplly auto eq ... but first impression presists .

Does this thing preserve sound stage width . As mini dsp ruins it