I just picked up Smaart v.7 from work. Let me just start off by saying, "man, what a powerful tool." The ways you can use it are almost limitless, really depending on your own knowledge. My Solo Buss Idea

I was sitting at lunch today eating a sandwich and thinking about what sort of things I could use Smaart to tell me. Then the idea hit me- "What if I could have a frequency response trace for every single channel on the console?" Then you would ask, "Why?" I could see problem frequencies on each channel. I would know why Sarah's voice sounds so honky. Or why the kick drum kinda rings out and lacks definition. I'd have a plot of every channel.

And that might be great but if you have a 32 channel desk then that a lot of information for you to put on the screen at one time. Not to mention you'd be taxing the processor on that poor computer. There's a lot of math behind this information. So I decided there's a really easy way to set this up on a DigiCo console utilizing direct outs. So here's the basic steps. I'm just going to assume you kinda understand setting up Smaart, as well as a Digico console, mainly for time's sake.

Set up a Digico UB MADI or DigiGrid MGB on your computer running Smaart.
Set up a channel or a few channels on the console for measurement mics and route the direct outs for those channels via MADI to the UB Madi or MGB
Set up direct outs on your solo bus to run out via MADI to the UB MADI or MGB as well.
Set up Smaart to use the UB MADI or MGB as it's input device, route the signals, and label things in Smaart appropriately.

And boom you're done! You now have an RTA on every channel on your console. Quite handy for ringing out monitors, or finding anomalies very quickly. Who knows, maybe you'll figure out how to keep your mix phase and time coherent all the way through the console What you do with this information and how you process it is up to you!

~Andy