As we all have heard before time is money, and no one understands that better than the custom integrator or installer. For many jobs, much time and effort goes into the design and deployment of a new sound system. Since many electronic products are programmable these days, time spent on setting up a unit, or group of units to finish a system, is always a concern. Realistically hours can be spent which can burn up your profit ratio on a job. Even if the setup goes perfectly, time just tweaking a new system is costly. Ultimately, you’re trying to hit that sweat spot of profitable job and happy client for future business.
So in comes the question of how can we save time when installing TOA speakers in conjunction with the D-901 mixer. Well we’ve just made it a little easier by taking advantage of some of the flexibility of the D-901’s multi-iteration capable software. We now have several files which contain the EQ curves for many of our popular speakers which can be used like a template. These files can be found at the following link. Having these two files independently opened along with your project file allow you to copy paste the filters from the template EQ files to your project file for the output filters needed.
The first thing you will need to do is download the template zip file from our website to your
Windows compatible computer. You will then need to unzip the file to obtain the two .d9t files which can be saved to your 'My Documents' folder or any folder you decide to place them in.
The second step you should do is to open your project file and have it ready on your computer. The screenshot below is a general example to go to a file location and open a file.
TIP: If the type or types of TOA speakers that need to be used all reside on one of these template files, then only the template file of interest needs to be open.
Below you will find the screenshots of these steps. Note that once you open the template files with the software, the speaker names will appear as preset memory names.
Open file example.
You will be able to verify the EQ curve in the graphical display at the bottom portion of the software each time you paste an EQ curve into your project.
Lastly when you go to close the template files it will ask you if you want to save the changes as the software has detected a functional change. Say NO to Save file for your Template files and YES to your project file as you don’t want to lose your work.
That’s it, simple and easy, especially if you have several models of speakers you are working with.
Happy programming!
