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Get Started with Phase Invaders

Contents

  • Graphs + Zoom
  • Coherence
  • Delay and Polarity
  • Score
  • Upload your Smaart® traces
  • Playing Phase Invaders!
    • Merlijn van Veen
    • Mauricio Ramirez
    • Aleš Štefančič

If you have ever tried completing a main+sub alignment, but you:

  • Ran out of time
  • Couldn’t make sense of the data
  • Couldn’t verify your results

Then you’re in the right place!

In early 2019 I interviewed 35 live sound engineers like you about what they were struggling most with in their audio analyzers. As you can imagine I got a lot of different answers, but two trends emerged.

  1. Everyone wanted some way to practice outside of the high pressure production environment of a live show.
  2. Everyone wanted help reading the phase graph with their main+sub alignment.

Using all of these requests I built an outline for an online course called the Phase Alignment Science Academy, which also included a practice game called Phase Invaders.

I pitched this to the sound engineers I had interviewed. One or two of them signed up for the course, but ALL of them signed up for the game. I decided to put the course on hold and move forward with the game.

The first version of Phase Invaders was built in Excel. I put a lot of hours into figuring how to accomplish its functions with macros and VBA code.

The excel version proved the concept and I hired a developer to create the first prototype that would run in a browser. There was a lot of back and forth to translate my Excel workbook into Javascript, but it finally worked and the first public release came out in November.

Below you will find a series of short videos to help you get started playing Phase Invaders. Please let me know if you run into any problems and what ideas you have for improvements.

Play phase invaders

Graphs + Zoom

Coherence

Delay and Polarity

Score

Upload your Smaart® traces

Playing Phase Invaders!

Merlijn van Veen

Mauricio Ramirez

Aleš Štefančič

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