Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Front fills are only going to cover two rows and about five people wide. They are not part of your spatialization system. You’re not going to be zinging things around the front fields and have everybody go, "Wow, look at it across the front!"
That’s not going to happen in your under balcony speakers either, because if the under balcony speakers are designed correctly at all, they are designed for correlated signal for minimal overlap, because their job is to bring up Intelligibility. They have a very clear mission.
One of the places I really throw up a big red flag is people wanting to play matrix games with the delays, under balconies, and front-fills. Stop it, stop it, stop it. Those things are combat audio. You must make them simple and Intelligible. Let them do their job and don’t screw them up.
-Bob McCarthy
Original Interview: sounddesignlive.com/when-will-this-immersive-fad-be-over
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I love to geek out about the physics of sound. This channel focuses on the growing opportunity for live sound engineers to improve their confidence and consistency through the understanding of the principles of sound system design and optimization. My goal is to make this channel upfront and honest about my success and failure, so you can learn from both.
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Front fills are only going to cover two rows and about five people wide. They are not part of your spatialization system. You’re not going to be zinging things around the front fields and have everybody go, "Wow, look at it across the front!"
That’s not going to happen in your under balcony speakers either, because if the under balcony speakers are designed correctly at all, they are designed for correlated signal for minimal overlap, because their job is to bring up Intelligibility. They have a very clear mission.
One of the places I really throw up a big red flag is people wanting to play matrix games with the delays, under balconies, and front-fills. Stop it, stop it, stop it. Those things are combat audio. You must make them simple and Intelligible. Let them do their job and don’t screw them up.
-Bob McCarthy
Original Interview: sounddesignlive.com/when-will-this-immersive-fad-be-over
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💙 Start supporting Sound Design Live today for as little as $5/month on Patreon: patreon.com/sounddesignlive
___
📈 Get Started with Sound System Tuning - sounddesignlive.com/get-started-with-sound-system-tuning
___
👨🎓 SOUND SYSTEM TUNING ONLINE COURSE - proaudioworkshopseeingsound.com
___
📕 Books on sound system tuning - sounddesignlive.com/audio-engineer-training-programs
🎙 Podcast for live sound engineers - sounddesignlive.com/pro-audio-podcast
___
Smaart® and the Smaart logo are registered trademarks of Rational Acoustics LLC and are not affiliated with Nathan Lively or Sound Design Live.
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Be friendly
Facebook - facebook.com/sounddesignlive
Twitter - twitter.com/nathandofrango
LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/nathanlively
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I love to geek out about the physics of sound. This channel focuses on the growing opportunity for live sound engineers to improve their confidence and consistency through the understanding of the principles of sound system design and optimization. My goal is to make this channel upfront and honest about my success and failure, so you can learn from both.
I am always open to suggestions and feedback so please comment on this video or contact me through my site.
