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<blockquote data-quote="bruce reiter" data-source="post: 19562" data-attributes="member: 351"><p>Re: SMAART possibilities</p><p></p><p>hi jay,</p><p></p><p>mixing monitors from front of house can be a drag but it can be done with great success.</p><p>if you set up your monitor speakers to have a "flat" response, in phase, in time and also as loud as it will go with no feedback, distortion or other unpleasant effect</p><p>before you have a band in the room waiting to sound check or play their show you will have a point of relativity to begin to create your foh mix and your monitor mix.</p><p></p><p>basically get to know exactly how your speakers sound and figure out with the gear you have how to optimize it.</p><p>this will give you a relative point to reference from so as you do your line check you are not "ringing out" or tuning your speakers, this work should be done without the band around.</p><p></p><p>make sure you calibrate smaart so you can get a accurate db reading.</p><p>take some measurements with smaart with the mic in the listening area for each mix to see what it says about your wedges and with your system processor/eq balance the sound and then match all mixes to be the same. (of coarse this is obvious but i see many people working from a random palate instead of really organizing their mix and finding a point of relativity to work from)</p><p></p><p>this may help set you up better so you will not experience and major anomalies in your mix and will give you time to try and understand the artist abstract requests. </p><p></p><p>then i think using smaart in the way you described would be a great tool to help find a squeeeeeek here and there. i like to have my cue bus got to the smaart reference channel, assuming your console has cues on the sends this may be a good way to route it.</p><p></p><p>opinions?</p><p></p><p>best,</p><p></p><p>bruce</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bruce reiter, post: 19562, member: 351"] Re: SMAART possibilities hi jay, mixing monitors from front of house can be a drag but it can be done with great success. if you set up your monitor speakers to have a "flat" response, in phase, in time and also as loud as it will go with no feedback, distortion or other unpleasant effect before you have a band in the room waiting to sound check or play their show you will have a point of relativity to begin to create your foh mix and your monitor mix. basically get to know exactly how your speakers sound and figure out with the gear you have how to optimize it. this will give you a relative point to reference from so as you do your line check you are not "ringing out" or tuning your speakers, this work should be done without the band around. make sure you calibrate smaart so you can get a accurate db reading. take some measurements with smaart with the mic in the listening area for each mix to see what it says about your wedges and with your system processor/eq balance the sound and then match all mixes to be the same. (of coarse this is obvious but i see many people working from a random palate instead of really organizing their mix and finding a point of relativity to work from) this may help set you up better so you will not experience and major anomalies in your mix and will give you time to try and understand the artist abstract requests. then i think using smaart in the way you described would be a great tool to help find a squeeeeeek here and there. i like to have my cue bus got to the smaart reference channel, assuming your console has cues on the sends this may be a good way to route it. opinions? best, bruce [/QUOTE]
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