The BARE, Bass And Room Evaluator, was specifically designed to evaluate the room at the range the PARC is designed to compensate. When used together one can typically achieve a near flat response in the bass region which will allow the entire frequency range to sound much clearer.

Most rooms have particular modes, that cause excitation at particular frequencies. These modes can cause bass increases at particular frequency ranges of more than 10 dB. For more information on room modes, go to the Listening Room. These low frequencies can also be very difficult to reduce, as most passive room treatments are ineffective below 200 Hz. The BARE software is specifically designed to measure the frequency response between 20 and 500 Hz. BARE measures steady state frequency response, time energy curves, and waterfall plots in this region. In addition to these measurements BARE plots the psycho-acoustic response curve. We have found this to be far superior setting up and evaluating the bass response in a room to the typical steady state responses.

BARE also operates with low cost soundcards (such as those in most laptop computers) and with a standard SPL meter, such as the Radio Shack analog SPL meter. In fact, the BARE, is already pre-calibrated for the Radio Shack SPL meter. In addition to this it couples with the PARC, evaluating the best settings for the PARC for a given response, and then transferring the data to the PARC to store it in memory location