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Thursday, February 03, 2011Rational Acoustics Announces Additional Upcoming Smaart Training Classes
PSW Staff 02/03/11 11:03 AM, 0 CommentsRational Acoustics has just announced additional Smaart Training classes for the first part of 2011. February 15-17, 2011 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. This class will be hosted and taught, in Spanish, by Spanish Distributor Woods Engineering, with Jim Woods as the instructor. February 21-23, 2011 in Bogota, Colombia. This class will be hosted and taught, in Spanish, by South America Distributor Sonotribe, with Salvador Castaneda as the instructor. March 1-3, 2011 in Valencia, Spain. Hosted at the D.A.S. Audio… View this post
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011Primacoustic Offering Free Studio Acoustic Seminars In Several North American Cities
PSW Staff 02/02/11 08:50 AM, 0 CommentsPrimacoustic will be conducting “Studio Acoustics Made Easy” educational seminars over the coming month in several cities in Canada and the U.S. Product specialist of Primacoustic Jay Porter notes that anyone can turn any room into an effective recording workspace, with the seminars intended to take the mystery out of acoustic design. Porter has has worked on rooms for artists including Tommy Lee, John Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls), David Bottrill (U2, Silverchair), and David Rideau (Janet Jackson, Sting). Highlights: •… View this post
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011Rational Acoustics Announces Smaart Tools For iPhone & iPad Now Available
PSW Staff 01/25/11 08:36 AM, 0 CommentsRational Acoustics has announced that the Smaart Tools single channel module is now available as an in-app purchase in Studio Six Digital’s latest version (2.7) of its AudioTools application for iPhone and iPad. Smaart Tools was developed by Studio Six Digital in collaboration with Rational Acoustics and is based on the proprietary algorithms, techniques, features and color mapping found in the Smaart v.7 acoustic test and measurement software. Smaart Tools will ultimately appear as two modules within the AudioTools app.… View this post
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Monday, January 24, 2011Leave The PC At Home And Get Better Audio Measurement Data
Pat Brown 01/24/11 05:05 PM, 0 CommentsIt is difficult to describe how something sounds. The terms are vague and subjective, and often have different meanings to different people. Sound is meant for listening, and the listening process is the most power diagnostic tool for the audio technician. Measurement systems yield lots of data, but it can be difficult to interpret. It makes perfect sense to combine the hearing process with the measurement process, allowing the benefits of each to be exploited. The processes of convolution and… View this post
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011John Aldrich Appointed Technical Support Specialist At Rational Acoustics
PSW Staff 01/04/11 07:30 AM, 0 CommentsRational Acoustics has announced the addition of John Aldrich in the role of technical support specialist, where he will provide daily customer support and technical issue resolution for Smaart software and peripheral hardware products via phone, e-mail and other electronic mediums. Aldrich will manage the overall Smaart knowledge base and review, create and refine the company’s technical support offerings as needed. Additionally, he will assist the development team with bug reporting and new release/new product testing and documentation. Prior to… View this post
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Monday, January 03, 2011Which Impedance? Nominal Minimum / Maximum Average
Pat Brown 01/03/11 02:02 PM,The impedance of a loudspeaker characterizes the opposition that it presents to current flowing from the amplifier. The impedance is both complex and frequency-dependent. Complex means that it is not a pure resistance, but a combination of resistance and reactance. As a result, the voltage and current waveforms from the amplifier are not in-phase. Frequency-dependence means that the opposition to current flow varies with the applied frequency – a natural occurrence in a reactive load. The curve in Figure 1… View this post
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010Wohler Debuts New Products At CABSAT 2011
PSW Staff 12/28/10 08:35 AM, 0 CommentsAt CABSAT 2011, Wohler will demonstrate several state-of-the-art products from its industry-leading range of solutions for audio, video, data monitoring, and captioning. Featured products at the show include the new, compact Pandora system for clear, configurable loudness monitoring; the Presto multiview source selector; three new versions of Wohler’s HDCC-200A range of captioning cards; and enhancements to the flagship AMP2-16V audio/video processing monitor. Pandora, new for CABSAT, is a compact and easy-to-read desktop or rack-mountable loudness monitor that can be employed… View this post
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010Far-Field Criteria For Loudspeaker Balloon Data
Pat Brown 11/16/10 01:20 PM, 0 CommentsThe most common reference distance for loudspeaker SPL specifications is 1 meter (3.28 feet). The choice is one of convenience – any distance will do. The 1m reference simplifies distance attenuation calculations by eliminating the division required in the first step: Loudspeakers must be measured at a distance beyond which the shape of the radiation balloon remains unchanged. The changes are caused by path length differences to different points on the surface of the device. These differences become increasingly… View this post
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Friday, November 12, 2010Studio Six Digital Exhibits SmaartTools For iOS At AES 2010
PSW Staff 11/12/10 01:01 PM, 0 CommentsStudio Six Digital showcased at AES 2010 several exciting announcements including the impending release of iAudioInterface2 and SmaartTools. iAudioInterface2 is a two-channel USB audio input / output interface designed specifically for iPad audio test and measurement. It will also function as a general-purpose two-channel audio interface on iPad, and will work with any computer that supports USB audio. When used with an iPad, AudioTools, and a test & measurement microphone, users will be able to run Smaart Tools, or any… View this post
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010NTi Releases PC Projector For XL2 Analyzer At AES
PSW Staff 11/10/10 12:44 PM, 0 CommentsAt the 129th AES Convention NTi Audio released the PC Projector software for the handheld XL2 Audio and Acoustic Analyzer. The XL2 Projector displays the instruments screen in real-time via the USB connection to the PC. The virtual keyboard enables the user to control the instrument with mouse clicks from the PC. The Projector software is free of charge and ready for download for all XL2 customers on the NTi website. “The versatility of the XL2 Audio and Acoustic Analyzer,… View this post
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