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Who it is for

Dana DJ

DJ. Small clubs, bars, the odd rooftop.

Dana plays the night and owns the sound. Two speaker stacks hang beside the stage, pointed at the floor; the booth is hers; nobody else is coming to tune it. So she does.

Illustration: Dana DJ at her decks on the stage, a packed dance floor in front of her, speakers hanging beside the stage.
The night. The level readout stays in view.

A day with Dana

Illustration: Dana DJ at her booth on the stage of the empty club, coffee in hand, her laptop turned towards her.
The empty club in the afternoon.

Afternoon

The club is empty. Dana sets a measurement mic on a stand in the middle of the floor and opens AcoustiTrack on the laptop beside her decks. She arms the output and sends pink noise through the stacks.

Illustration: Dana DJ at her booth before the doors open, AcoustiTrack on the laptop, a microphone on a stand on the empty floor.
Measuring from the booth before the doors open.

Reading the room

The spectrum shows her where the floor booms and where it thins out. She plays one stack at a time: the transfer function shows each against the signal she sent, and she finds the delay from each to the mic, as an equivalent distance in metres — and whether they arrive together.

Illustration: Dana DJ on the empty dance floor pointing up at a hanging speaker while a rigger on a lift adjusts it.
One stack re-aimed, then measured again.

Tilting the speaker

One stack is aimed too high. She tilts it, measures again, and compares the new capture with the old one on the same chart.

The night

The floor fills. Dana keeps the level readout in view — dB(A), with the club’s limit and how much room is left under it. The history logs the night for the owner.

Guided

Dana turns the Guide on. It takes her through the interface and the routing, the test signal and the output, then asks for at least three places on the floor — front, middle and back. From what the places share and what changes between them, it reads where the sound rises and dips compared with the bands beside it: a change at every place is the system's, so EQ will help; one that moves with the microphone is the room's, where moving a speaker or the listening place is the answer. When the places don't settle it, it says so and asks for more.

Dana’s product: AcoustiTrack

The same instrument Fred uses, on her laptop at the booth.