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You Need A Sound System Preflight Checklist

By Nathan Lively

Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play or Stitcher. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon. In this episode of Sound Design Live my guest is by applications engineer for touring systems at L-Acoustics, Vic Wagner. We discuss sound system tuning, immersive audio, modular workflows, benchmarking performance and designing loudspeaker presets. I ask: What are some of the biggest mistakes you see people making who are new to designing, deploying, and optimizing … [Read more...]

SubAligner vs. L-Acoustics Preset Guide (K2 + SB28, Kiva + SB15m)

By Nathan Lively

The L-Acoustics Preset Guide is not only a valuable resource for subwoofer alignment, but is also one of my inspirations for creating SubAligner. If L-Acoustics can create alignment presets for their speakers then I should be able to scale the same method to any other speaker pair. It also provides a quality check for results from SubAligner: Do they match? Why or why not? A majority of the Preset Guide deals with loading the appropriate preset into the amplified controller for a … [Read more...]

Guess How Many Measurements Positions You Need for Proper Output EQ (it’s more than 1!)

By Nathan Lively

Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play or Stitcher. Support Sound Design Live on Patreon. In this episode of Sound Design Live I talk with the Product Manager at L-Acoustics, Scott Sugden. We discuss the automation built into the new M1 measurement software, why you can't trust measurement data above 10kHz beyond 80m, and the specific number of measurement positions you need to represent an audience for proper output EQ choice. I ask: How did you get your … [Read more...]

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