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How to use a custom weighting curve in Smaart® and why I don’t recommend it

By Nathan Lively

At first, using a custom weighting curve in Smaart seems like a brilliant time saver, but it turns a guide into a rule and could make your optimization procedure too rigid. A custom weighting curve is like a filter for your data, similar to a microphone correction curve. Its intention was to add A and C weighting to Magnitude and RTA graphs, but Smaart makes it really easy to turn your target trace into a weighting curve as well. Then, instead of matching your measurements to a target trace, … [Read more...]

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