Waves Offers TRACT Loudspeaker Correction Plugin

Audio processing solutions specialists Waves Audio announced Waves TRACT Loudspeaker Correction, a new powerful corrective EQ and system time alignment tool for live PA systems or studio environments. The software works together with Rational Acoustics’ Smaart Audio Analysis software, and allows users to quickly take and merge snapshots of the system’s transfer measurements, and instantly calculate a corrective FIR EQ curve.
 
With Rational Acoustics’ Smaart v8 or Smaart Di v2 audio analysis software running, the TRACT plugin allows users to view frequency and phase response in real time. Users can select from four reference frequency response curves, or save their own reference presets, allowing to bring the same familiar mixing canvas to any venue. Waves also confirms that users will be able to augment TRACT’s calculated FIR with up to eight bands of low-phase IIR filter shapes, including bell, low/high shelves, flat-top, Butterworth and Linkwitz-Riley, tilt and all-pass.

The plugin is very low-latency with low phase distortion, and also includes a linear-phase FIR component, clearly intended to be used not only in studio but also in a live setting with Waves MultiRack, the Waves eMotion LV1 mixing console, or directly inserted in a DAW.

"With Waves TRACT Loudspeaker Correction and Rational Acoustics’ Smaart, you can easily, quickly and reliably get any sound system to perform at its very best, venue to venue, night after night," Waves states in the announcement.
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