The most common microphones I use on corporate events are Shure wireless SM58, WL185 Lavalier, and wired MX418. I created three EQ snapshots using a mic compare measurement in Smaart for a more transparent starting point. What is a mic compare measurement? In the same way that we use the transfer function measurement in Smaart […]
Invasion of the Phase Invaders: An Audio Engineer’s Guide to Battle Tactics and Big Scores
If you lay awake at night thinking about improving your crossover alignments and winning big at Phase Invaders, then this guide is for you. What follows are three proven battle tactics from beginner to advanced. #1 – Beginner Press all the buttons until you win. a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard […]
Smaart® Beta: Will the new filter control in the delay finder help with your main+sub alignment?
The overhauled delay finder in Smaart v8 beta looks like it’s set up to make your main+sub alignments a synch. But will it really save you time? (Yes, but you can’t throw out the phase graph, yet.) Key Takeaways The updated delay finder includes an optional bandpass filter for tracking arrival time by frequency. It […]
If Poor Speaker Choice and Placement Were a Crime, We’d All Go to Jail
Interview with Pat Brown from SynAudCon about the biggest mistakes in sound system design and optimization.
3-Step Configuration Hack to Get up and Running Fast with Smaart® v8 Beta
I know you want to use the new beta version of Smaart, but you haven’t found time, yet. This 3-step hack will have you up and running in about 5 minutes. Steps In Smaart v8, Config > Manage Configurations > Current Config > Save As. In Finder, ⇧⌘G then ~/Documents/Smaart v8/Config and copy the config […]