What are the optimal settings for smart so that you can
quickly get a handle on taking readings and not micromanage too much? This is one
of the biggest problems with having so much data is that we want to
micromanage, but we can help ourselves avoid that with a few simple settings
here. I'm gonna go through these quickly not getting into too much detail
but here's how I recommend you start with your brand new smart setup the
first thing we're going to want to do is change the y-axis settings of our
magnitude graph here so go to options transfer function and set your magnitude
range to minimum negative 18 maximum 18 set your grid interval to 6 the grid
interval of 3 just kind of is a little bit annoying to me and 6 is a very
important number for the kind of work we're gonna be doing and it's a division
that I want to be really clear you can set your coherence on or off just get
used to using the C key a lot to turn the coherence on and off you see like
okay I see it I know this is a problem great turn it off over here on the right
start with averaging at one second if you are outside or there's a lot of
noise you may have to turn it up to 3 or 4 there's no problem with turning this
up as much as you want you can even set it to infinity and just let it run as
soon as you get enough good data you stop it start with your phase response
your faith smoothing at 124th octave and your magnitude smoothing at 148 we exist
the urge to set this really high that makes it pretty but it's a lie I will
put a link to my interview with Mauricio Ramirez under this video and we go into
detail about why you don't want to use a lot of smoothing when you are doing this
kind of work the next thing I would get familiar with is your zoom presets and
your view presets now I don't know all the view presets but I know the ones
that are important to me so what happens to me a lot of times is that I'm in
spectrum view I hit T to go back to transfer function
view and then the phase graph is on top in the magnitude graph is on bottom but
I started out using Sat live for a long time so I'm used to the magnitude trace
being on top so I just remember to hit the number six and that gets me back to
magnitude trace on top phase on the bottom that's what I'm used to seeing
and you can take a look at those under view view presets and you can change
those to whatever you want options zoom I have these set up like this because I
want to quickly be able to zoom into certain areas and the most important for
me are probably this area between 30 to 200 and two thousand to ten thousand
those two areas I find myself zooming in and out of often so I can quickly look
at the subs and then come back to zoomed out and then maybe look at just the high
end if I'm doing aiming a speaker and then quickly zoom out so these are not
the default settings so this is what I recommend
zoom 132 200zoo - 202 mm zoom 3 2 K - 10 K zoom for 10 K - 20 K so here's what I
was talking about option 1 quickly zoom in look at the
subs and then I'll usually just click out here to zoom out ok otherwise I'd be
option 5 option 3 this is my 2 K - 10 K I know just because of my own hearing
loss of my own disability that there's a lot of things above 12 K that I just
can't hear so zooming in to Fork is an important area for me to be able to
check out if there's something crazy happening up here that I may not even be
able to hear but I can see it on the graph this clicking out here to reset
the default is super powerful because a lot of times you'll mess up this graph
like you move it around with the arrow keys if you need to see something you
zoom in here you move around you right click and zoom way into this thing
anywhere you are you can always click out here and get back to default okay
same thing in the phase graph down here you may use the arrow keys to move this
around so it's easier to read you may assume in like this anytime you
need to get back to normal just click there and then the final setting I
recommend is start with your signal generator at minus 12 DB more on why
that is in future videos okay so those are the default settings that I
recommend if you guys have any suggestions for me please comment below
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