Smaart 7 audio interface

[Helge A. Bentsen]

Have anybody here tried using a Allen & Heath Zed-series mixer as audio interface with Smaart 7?

http://www.allen-heath.com/zed/zed14

 

[Arthur Skudra]

Re: Smaart 7 audio interface

I haven't personally, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. Keep in mind that the USB connection is limited to stereo in and stereo out. Unless you have other plans with the mixing console, I would personally prefer a multichannel interface for less money to take advantage of the multichannel capabilities of Smaart 7.

 

[Rich Frembes]

Re: Smaart 7 audio interface

I have. It did not work very well. It has been a few months so I do not remember the specifics, but there is a problem routing noise into the console (to feed to device under test) and back into the console (for the reference signal). Somewhere along the line I determined I had to use an aux bus to return signal to Smaart via the USB. Depending on the routing the resultant measurement had a huge HF roll-off or there was massive comb filtering.

My seat-of-the-pants guess is that they are using different model ADC and or DAC for the aux sends, and they have differing latencies. The latency difference is on the order of 1 ms or less. It's fine for general music playback, but no good at all for measurement.