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3 EQ Snapshots That Will Make Your Corporate Event Mics More Transparent Using Smaart®: SM58, 185, MX412

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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 to observe changes to our mix as it passes through speakers and the air, we can also observe changes to the source as it passes through microphones. To do this, … [Read more...]

How to Measure and Treat Resonances like Room Modes and Standing Waves with Smaart®

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Room modes can make your mix sound flabby and are most prevalent in small rooms. A few properly placed notch filters can help and in this article I am going to show you how to measure your room and place the filters using Smaart. Key Takeaways Precisely placed notch filters can tighten up your mix, but it's easy to overdo it. Listen and audition.Smaart will not average multiple IR measurements. You'll need to do that in another app. In general, the process is simple. The … [Read more...]

Smaart®: Tracking peak frequency without the mouse cursor

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You've probably run into this problem in Smaart: you are using the RTA graph to find peaks in the response, but as soon as you move your mouse out of the window, the cursor readout disappears! This makes sense, though, right? You want the cursor to show information about whatever graph is in focus. But what if you need the graph to keep tracking peaks while you work in a different window? Maybe you are updating the EQ in X32-edit or adjusting the signal generator output. As far as I … [Read more...]