Back in November I had the opportunity to work on a multi-channel home theater sound system built with custom speakers. The client had their own Smaart rig so they measured the drivers and I worked on the EQ and crossover alignment within Crosslite.

What follows are clips from the meeting transcript.

We need for both of these drivers to be captured with the exact same delay locator value. Copy the delay locator value from your HF measurement. Paste it into your TF delay, and this time measure your low frequency driver again, but don’t change the delay locator.

Disable phase smoothing and magnitude smoothing and coherence blanking. Now what you’re going to do is select both of those over in the data tab and export to ASCII.

I’ve marked our crossover region here and our sums looking pretty good because I’ve done a little bit of work already. Let’s see how we’re doing in the phase. Yeah, it’s looking pretty good. So we’re adding both together, the natural row off, plus this electronic filter that I’m implementing. And so the first thing was to just check, what if we just add steeper filters instead of adding delay?

The last thing would be to now apply some EQ to make this peak go down because we did an overlap crossover instead of a unity crossover. Now I can just move this filter around a little bit and try to get a nice result there.

Yeah, I’m going to say that that’s 12dB/oct. Our goal is 24. So we need to add another 12dB/oct. So this could be perfect. Okay, let’s find our crossover region. So I’ll look for anywhere where they are 10dB apart. Delta magnitude is ten. The way you can do that in Crosslite is with these cursors. And the way you do that in Smart is you would do a trace offset. So you would offset one of these by ten and then look at this value where they still interact, where they still cross, and then you would go the other way minus ten, and then just put some kind of a marker there.

Oh, shit. It matches already with only a polarity inversion. All right, that was easy. So now we just need a little bit more EQ. Heading back to the input EQ. Okay. Should be pretty good. We can just have a look and see if we like this results. That look pretty good to you?

Let’s deploy these settings into your DSP and verify the alignment.

No delay? Shit!