

The 16.0.2 also has only one Stereo GEQ on the Main Outs, unlike the 16.4.2/24.4.2 which have eight GEQs, one on each Aux (reassignable on the 24) and the Main L/R as well. The 16.0.2 has only 16 firewire input streams and 16 output streams for the regular channels 1-16, unlike the 16.4.2 (32 in x 18 out) and the 24.4.2 (32 in x 26 out) which have extra auxiliary firewire streams in addition to the regular channel streams. This way you can see the results of your adjustment and easily correct for any room or speaker anomalies.īecause of the way Smaart is integrated into Universal Control/VSL and because the Room Analysis Wizard audio routing requires extra firewire streams that the 16.0.2 doesn’t have, the Smaart Room Analysis Wizard essentially can’t be implemented on the 16.0.2. As you make EQ adjustments to what’s coming out of the Mains, you’ll see the measured curve change on the screen in real time. When you make an EQ adjustment in the wizard, this is what you’re adjusting, the Fat Channel EQ of the Main bus, NOT the GEQ. Through the Smaart Transfer Function, the frequency curve as measured by the analysis mic is displayed on the screen and overlayed by the controls for the Fat Channel parametric EQ of the Main bus. Your analysis mic, listening to the pink noise coming through your speaker system, is connected to the talkback input, and the talkback input is routed through the Smaart analysis tool (using an auxiliary firewire stream) giving you a frequency response curve.

When you run the Room Analysis Wizard (on the Main Outs for example) using a 16.4.2 or 24.4.2, what it’s actually doing is sending pink noise through channel 1 which is assigned to and going out of the Main outs and thus through your speaker system.
