Macau COD Tuning: Day 3 (work in progress)
Note: I have completed day 5 at the time of this writing – I am posting this work in progrees so that the posts will come out in the right order – I will fill this one in ASAP The #1 goal for today...
View ArticleMacau COD Tuning: Day 4 (Work in progress)
Note: I have completed day 5 at the time of this writing – I am posting this work in progrees so that the posts will come out in the right order – I will fill this one in ASAP Bus level adjustments...
View ArticleMacau COD Tuning: Day 5 (Cardioid sub day)
Looking for Mr. Cardioid During the daytime (remember that we start at 11pm) the crew set up 2 measurement mics for us high in the grid. The mics were placed as a front/back pair in the near field of...
View ArticleMacau COD Tuning: Day 6 – Constellation
Constellation Tuning Most of today was dedicated to Constellation tuning. Steve Ellison programmed up the menu of user-settable presets that will become the painter’s pallette for the system designers,...
View ArticleMacau COD Tuning: Day 7 (Underwater SIM) – Updated with screen dumps
Today was scattered around different tasks. We tested the repositioned Sound Beams, further refined the Constellation settings, picked off stragglers in need of verification – or RE-verification, and...
View ArticleNew York Trainings – Updated with Pics
I am in NYC this week for two rounds of classes: SIM3 training in Brooklyn and the Broadway Sound Master class on the NYU campus in the East Village. The SIM class is at City Tech in Brooklyn – which...
View ArticleSIM3 Optimization & Design Seminar at UC Irvine
We just completed a 4-day SIM3 training seminar in the south side of southern California. UC Irvine is located very near the ocean, which makes one wonder how folks could study when the surf’s up. It...
View ArticleIf you have ever tuned a sound system – watch this video – 3 min.
This is a highly informative – and realistic – short video on the how a system optimization engineer and FOH engineer relate in their job roles. We have Bennet Prescott to thank for this. I only wish...
View ArticleToning Your Sound System
No this is NOT a typo. I did not mean to write “Tuning your sound system” because that is entirely a different subject. So what is the difference between toning and tuning? Here is a simple example...
View ArticleInterview On Sound Design Live
Last week Nathan Lively published a great interview with me on his podcast, Sound Design Live. Enjoy! In this episode of Sound Design Live I speak with Bob McCarthy, author of Sound System Design &...
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