Eq a room using an RTA mic on the X32console

[Brown Greg]

I followed Drew Brashler's method for setting the eq for a room using an RTA mic and the pink noise oscillator. Everything went okay until I soloed the RTA mic. It cut off the pink noise and fed back.
I watched another video, and it showed the same technique.
If I don't solo the RTA mic, pink noise will come through the speakers and I can set the eq. (horrible room, by the way)
I'm missing something.
Help?
GB

 

[Art Welter]

Everything went okay until I soloed the RTA mic. It cut off the pink noise and fed back.

If the mic channel fed back when soloed, the solo function has been sent to the mixer's output driving the speaker system that fed back.
A "studio monitor" bus may substitute solo/PFL for L/R output.

Mixers like the X32 or the Yamaha PM3000 have a "solo in place" (master solo mode/SIP) switch that when depressed, makes the main L/R outputs function like a studio monitor bus:


Read your X32 manual to understand what happens to each output when you solo a channel.