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 is where John Huntington teaches. We have several … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 7 (Underwater SIM) – Updated with screen dumps
May 16, 2010 by 6 Comments
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 finally SIM'd the underwater speakers. Soundbeams … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 6 – Constellation
May 11, 2010 by 3 Comments
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, Francois Bergeron and Vikram Kirby. The … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 5 (Cardioid sub day)
May 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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 the coupled subwoofer array. The goal was to … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 4 (Work in progress)
May 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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 for equal level One of the major components of an … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 3 (work in progress)
May 8, 2010 by 1 Comment
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 was to get 1/4th of the room operational for so … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 2
May 7, 2010 by 4 Comments
Day 2: Day 2 was spent finishing the tuning process for the Main arrays (to the 1/2 point) Now that we have done all 4 arrays we will copy the the settings over to the other side and then verify the symmetry of the other speakers. We are setting … [Continue reading]
Macau COD Tuning: Day 1
May 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I am currently in Macau. If you don't know where Macau is, study up on the history of the Portuguese Empire. Macau, the #1 gambling destination in the world has now reverted back to ownership by the People's Republic of China and like all gambling … [Continue reading]
OOOPs: Mistake found on “Phase wavelenth intro post”
April 26, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I found a mistake in the MAPP plot in the intro gallery: one pic had the wrong autocad background and showed the lines crossing in phase where the acoustical was cancelling. I am sorry for any confusion this may have caused. THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE … [Continue reading]
Off to Mexico for AES and SIM3 Training – Updated
April 25, 2010 by 9 Comments
I have been busy putting together new material for SIM 3 training, and AES seminar and the upcoming Broadway Sound Master Class. You have seen some of the work in progress below, but I have had to push to get things ready for showtime. Sorry for the … [Continue reading]
