Can SmaartLive compensate for irregularities in the frequency response of inexpensive microphones?
The short answer is “no.” We recommend that you use a very flat, well-behaved, omnidirectional microphone when performing measurements with Smaart Pro. There are several on the market for under $600 (USD). The long answer is that while it would be a fairly easy to do simple magnitude compensation for single-channel RTA mode measurements, attempts to compensate for microphone response in more complex operations (such as real-time Transfer Function and impulse/delay measurements) would almost certainly introduce more errors than were “corrected.” The reason for this is that the “dips and peaks” in the frequency response of lesser quality microphones vary widely with angle (pitch and yaw) and are the result of frequency dependent delays (i.e., phase response problems). To correct for this would require complete complex spherical response data for each microphone on a unit-by-unit basis. And even if the necessary data were available, the sheer number of calculations you would need to perfo
