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<blockquote data-quote="Rob Timmerman" data-source="post: 217272" data-attributes="member: 172"><p>I really like the idea of Smaart, but I've found that at the level I'm working (mostly one-offs on small rigs), the extra time and effort required to bring even a small Smaart rig (laptop, microphone, interface, cables, figure an extra half hour for even a basic setup/measure/adjust) simply isn't justified. </p><p></p><p>In the time domain, you can get quite close on time and phase alignment with a measuring tape, a click track (mostly for tops), a tone generator, a polarity flip (sadly missing from the outputs on the SQ series), and your ears, although it may take longer than a Smaart measurement to get exact. The basic technique is to rough-in the delay based on distance, then polarity-flip one of the passbands and, using a tone at the frequency of interest, sweep the delay until you maximize the null.</p><p></p><p>For frequency domain stuff, there are more options - I've been very happy with a combination of the AudioTools LARSA tool on an i-device combined with a Bluetooth to XLR adapter (I use the one from Switchcraft, but there are others). The Bluetooth range is enough to let me walk the room and get multiple measurement points very quickly. The downside is that you can't get time-domain information due to the variable-latency link.</p><p></p><p>And while an external system processor is nice to have, I have generally found that for processing self-powered boxes in a portable (not installed) environment, what's built into today's digital consoles is plenty (although on the SQ, you might end up running short on matrices if you have a complicated setup).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rob Timmerman, post: 217272, member: 172"] I really like the idea of Smaart, but I've found that at the level I'm working (mostly one-offs on small rigs), the extra time and effort required to bring even a small Smaart rig (laptop, microphone, interface, cables, figure an extra half hour for even a basic setup/measure/adjust) simply isn't justified. In the time domain, you can get quite close on time and phase alignment with a measuring tape, a click track (mostly for tops), a tone generator, a polarity flip (sadly missing from the outputs on the SQ series), and your ears, although it may take longer than a Smaart measurement to get exact. The basic technique is to rough-in the delay based on distance, then polarity-flip one of the passbands and, using a tone at the frequency of interest, sweep the delay until you maximize the null. For frequency domain stuff, there are more options - I've been very happy with a combination of the AudioTools LARSA tool on an i-device combined with a Bluetooth to XLR adapter (I use the one from Switchcraft, but there are others). The Bluetooth range is enough to let me walk the room and get multiple measurement points very quickly. The downside is that you can't get time-domain information due to the variable-latency link. And while an external system processor is nice to have, I have generally found that for processing self-powered boxes in a portable (not installed) environment, what's built into today's digital consoles is plenty (although on the SQ, you might end up running short on matrices if you have a complicated setup). [/QUOTE]
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