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Smaart Overview

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"Smaart" is a great software that we use at Life.Church to visually analyze audio volume and data in our auditoriums. If you do not already have Smaart at your location, it will be coming soon!

This article will provide some light training on how Smaart is used throughout Life.Church.

At Life.Church campuses, we use Smaart for spectrum analyzation, but it has the capability to do much more.

Smaart Overview

1. The areas highlighted in green are called Data Windows. They show the spectrum analyzation of each selected source. Lower frequencies are on the left, while higher ones are on the right. The higher the bar is, the louder that frequency is.

2. The Broadband Meters show the dB level of the selected source. dB is a measurement scale to tell us how loud the room is. Each mic is professionally calibrated to show an accurate measurement. You'll see metering options such as "dBA Slow," "dBC Slow," or "LEQ 10." We focus mostly on the dBA measurement at Life.Church. For more information on metering, feel free to visit our article: Weighting and Target Levels.

 

3. This area is dedicated to selecting which sources are in the spectrum analyzer. To view a source, click the play button next to its name. If viewing more than one source, click on the name of the one you want to prioritize over the others. For more information on the sources, please visit our article: Sources and Measurements.

4. This little arrow provides the ability to change the analyzation tool that displays in the window. For example, you could choose to view an RTA view on top and a spectrograph on the bottom if preferred. A good place to start might be to set both data windows to RTA, and view the mic input at the top with the console input at the bottom.

5. This arrow provides the ability to select the measurement source for each data window. This allows you to view the Mic or the QL5 or CL5 input in any window you would like.

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