Dale: The best way to learn about how to use the DSP in a specific application is to download the software and play around with it in a "virtual" unit mode. However, you must understand basic sound system physics to know, what to do with the crossovers, gain, time delay & filters.

Ellen: What about machine level programming?

Dale: You would need to go to a good college to learn assembler or machine language programming. I guess there is some people who have taught themselves how to do this but I don't know of any. At OSU there were many different courses on machine level programming. I opted to specialize in other areas of EE.

Marc: Have your checked out (BSS) Soundweb versus MediaMatrix. If so, can you contrast them, specifically?

Dale: Without being disparaging to any manufacturer, I will say that we much prefer the MediaMatrix, primarily because of the software.

Marc: What about horsepower?

Dale: The more the better. At the present MediaMatrix is hard to beat on horsepower. If you have a large system as you can add DSP cards as required. However, in the single box DSP’s, the most horsepower is found in the White PM Series boxes.

Bob: How many webs have you networked together? And have you used MediaMatrix CABS?

Dale: We don't use the Soundweb much, and most of our systems are large single-venue systems so we have not had the need to use the CABS. Even on the large stadium projects we have used fiber and the QSC control system.

Bob: Have you ever networked audio over Cat 5, like CobraNet?

Dale: Yes, with the QSC QSControl system.

CharlieH: What equipment do you use to tune a system & set-up the DSP?

Dale: We started out years ago using the TEF20 and were one of the beta sites for Smaart. So we have been pretty much a Smaart house for the last few years.

JH: What else do you use to set a system?

Dale: With Smaart you really don't need much of anything else, except an Ivie IE30 for balancing the system.

JH: Scope?