Mackie Quad EQ+ Smaart RTA?

[Kip Conner]

I was just flipping through the pages of a manufacturer looking for a cheap 31 band eq and saw this Mackie Quad EQ. They use a lot of fancy words to describe their product including "Smaart RTA."

If this was indeed an add-on to the DSP, it sounded interesting. However, it looks like it's only an RTA that shows the Live Trace. To see the Ref trace you would have to flip to the original display screen for the output in question, yes? It surely can't show you the Transfer Function. Yeah, I called you Shirley.

What's this all about? Anyone have one?

[FILO4PRES]

I believe the unit comes shipped with an RTA420 which is a budget type measurement mic pin3 hot.

If I remember the Quad EQ has a built in RTA, but that is all.

[Jamie]

This product includes an RTA, and SIA-branded mic and a stub of Smaart code for doing the SPL Calculation. That code was used for SPL calulation in the ill-fated UMX console (I'm sure you still have nightmares Filo).

Overall, the piece of gear is pretty cool for what it is, but the "Smaart integration" is quite minimal. The filters for the RTA feature are time-domain based (as one would expect for an application like this) and are the work of LOUD's DSP boyz in Victoria. And the SIA RTA-420 microphone is a re-branded 3rd-party omni-directional type 2 measurement mic (like dBx includes with some of their products).

So, as far as the "Smaart integration" here goes, it's mostly ISO-9000 buzz-word compliant marketing speak.

Regards,
-j

[Ferrit37]

umx96 :mad: