Subject: RE: [linux-audio-user] measuring sound volume
From: Polashek, Matthew (Matthew.Polashek_AT_scottforesman.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 21:18:55 EET
The tried and true method for setting speaker delay is to use a microphone
and a sharpie at the FOH position and adjust the second cluster by ear.
Matthew Polashek
Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music
Scott Foresman/Pearson Education
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Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480
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Matthew.Polashek_AT_scottforesman.com
> ----------
> From: Mark Knecht
> Reply To: A list for linux audio users
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:10 PM
> To: A list for linux audio users
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] measuring sound volume
>
> Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >
> > Definitely
> >
> > So if a zone is 10 meters a minimum distance between systems would be
> > 100 meters?
> >
> > Could that be cut down to 50 to provide fusion at the edges of the
> zones?
> >
> >
>
> We used to set up some large outdoor concerts here in California. Don't
> forget that there are timing differences based on where people are
> standing WRT each set of speakers. If someone is just beyond the second
> set they will hear both the main set on stage as well as the set close
> to them.
>
> We used to set up all the speakers going in the same direction away from
> the stage and then digitally delay the later speakers by 1mS/foot that
> the two sets were separated. This worked really well and gave much
> better sound in the back of the area we were covering.
>
> I would think this would be very easy with Jack and some little digital
> delay app running under Linux.
>
> HTH,
> Mark
>
>
>
>
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