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<blockquote data-quote="harrybrilljr" data-source="post: 91768" data-attributes="member: 103"><p>Re: Aux feed subs?</p><p></p><p>Guy, when you use a matched system the subs and the mains are typically tweaked at the factory to play nice with each other. Straight delay is all that is needed to get them back to alignment. WHen mixing and matching, regardless of whether you use the matching DSP or not you will not have a matched set and will need to tweak to get things together.</p><p></p><p>Jason, you seem to think if you use music the system will have a different transfer function than if you used noise. It won't. That's why we can use music to measure with Smaart. If you drive the subs from an Aux you will have an inaccurate transfer function once you have built the mix. This is because some instruments that are in the reference will not be coming out of the subs. I want to make sure it's clear that using a sine wave will not work with Smaart. That's an ear thing. You can use swept sine with lots of averaging, but not just an individual tone. If you are manually sweeping your oscillator back and forth and listening to the interaction between the sub and main, that might work great. Your ear/brain is in charge (as it always should be). Finally, not that it matters, but pink noise represents music quite well as far as the system is concerned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harrybrilljr, post: 91768, member: 103"] Re: Aux feed subs? Guy, when you use a matched system the subs and the mains are typically tweaked at the factory to play nice with each other. Straight delay is all that is needed to get them back to alignment. WHen mixing and matching, regardless of whether you use the matching DSP or not you will not have a matched set and will need to tweak to get things together. Jason, you seem to think if you use music the system will have a different transfer function than if you used noise. It won't. That's why we can use music to measure with Smaart. If you drive the subs from an Aux you will have an inaccurate transfer function once you have built the mix. This is because some instruments that are in the reference will not be coming out of the subs. I want to make sure it's clear that using a sine wave will not work with Smaart. That's an ear thing. You can use swept sine with lots of averaging, but not just an individual tone. If you are manually sweeping your oscillator back and forth and listening to the interaction between the sub and main, that might work great. Your ear/brain is in charge (as it always should be). Finally, not that it matters, but pink noise represents music quite well as far as the system is concerned. [/QUOTE]
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