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Sound Design Live System Tuning Roadmap PRINT

This document provides a roadmap for tuning a sound system. It begins with assessing the goals and needs of the client and artist. It then discusses dividing the listening plane into manageable sections, aiming speakers to cover sections without overlap, and verifying proper aim and placement. It also covers setting levels, crossovers, and EQ for each speaker subsystem. Finally, it discusses measuring the full system during a show to identify any remaining issues. The overall goal is to minimize level variance across sections and ensure the correct sound is coming from each speaker.

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Sound Design Live System Tuning Roadmap PRINT

This document provides a roadmap for tuning a sound system. It begins with assessing the goals and needs of the client and artist. It then discusses dividing the listening plane into manageable sections, aiming speakers to cover sections without overlap, and verifying proper aim and placement. It also covers setting levels, crossovers, and EQ for each speaker subsystem. Finally, it discusses measuring the full system during a show to identify any remaining issues. The overall goal is to minimize level variance across sections and ensure the correct sound is coming from each speaker.

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Victor Rikky Lin
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Sound System Tuning Roadmap

START HERE
Do you have Inventory What are the Speakers:
Output
all important goals of my coverage angle,
Duh, I work N & channels?
power rating,
client and
with this production O Needs needs of the
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mounting
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venue all the
details? artist? hardware
time.
YES
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manageable
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shape to section
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for LF
control
is nailed
down.
speakers? 6 minimum level
variance (±3dB)

NO
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pan, or tilt < where the Aim through the between
any of the ( Aim people are, and center of each sections, walls,
Impossible
speakers?
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are not
section and stage.

NO
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functioning u Is sound coming
speaker
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out of the correct
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verify aim and
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buddy. be? o driver?
placement
YES
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dedicated EQ for < Level Combine
Graphic EQs each speaker ( & Solo Spkr A
then
Combined Set array A
with
don’t count! subsystem? 6 EQ for array A
Solo Spkr B A+B array B

NO
Double check

Do you have Align spatial Align spectral


If not, you < Set levels to crossovers
crossovers
might be signal ( Crossover
using an
place crossover using an inverted sine
able to
physically
processing? 6 Alignment in desired impulse wave, warble, or
two-channel
move them.
frequency range response
measurement FFT
measurement
NO
Are showtime
measurement Y
Observe the Solo bus to FFT

mic positions
E effects of Record SPL for measurement
to ID
S Show temperature,
humidity, and
noise standards
resonances and
feasible in useful
human bodies feedback
positions?

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