Smaart Operator Fundamentals Class Curriculum

Smaart Operator Fundamentals:

Standard Session Length: 2 Days, 8 hrs. ea. (16 hrs.  total)

Course Description: 

This course covers the fundamentals of setting up a Smaart measurement rig and using Smaart to make basic RTA, Spectrograph, Transfer Function and Impulse Response measurements. Special attention is paid throughout the course to the subject of how to make valid and useful measurements, as opposed to simply making cool squiggly lines appear on the screen.

Topics Covered:

Fundamental Measurement Concepts

• Single channel vs. dual-channel measurements

• Time domain vs. frequency domain analysis

• What the heck is an FFT?

Smaart software overview

• Software install / update / upgrade

• Measurement Configuration

• Measurement control / interface navigation

Anatomy of a measurement rig

• Hardware requirements

• Standard configurations

• Basic troubleshooting

RTA and Spectrograph Measurements

• Averaging and Banding

• Feedback identification (and other cool things to do with Spectrograph)

• Calibration for SPL

Transfer Function Measurements

• Magnitude, Phase & Coherence traces: how they are generated & how to read them

• Data Thesholding Functions & Improving measurement quality

• Data Storage and Trace Averaging

Impulse response measurements

• Setting the delay for Transfer Function measurements: Live IR and Delay Tracking

• Measuring delay times for speaker system time alignment

• Tips for improving measurement quality

• The Impact of FFT Time Constant (window length) on Measurements