Audience Offsets - Martin Audio MLA User Manual

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Audience Offsets

You will notice that the green lines showing the audience area are hovering above the planes which is to represent the offset of
the position of the audience members' ears. By default this will be a uniform offset for all audience areas set to standing. Changes
are made using the Audience Offsets panel;-
If for example the entire audience is seated, you can simply click the seating button and you will see the green audience line drop
accordingly. The Standing offset is 1.6m and the Seating is 0.8. If you have a particularly unusual audience, very tall standing or
perhaps very low seats, you can use the Custom offset to define the offset height in metres.
You will often encounter venues where you have a non uniform offset, for example a room with a seated balcony but standing
downstairs in the stalls. In these instances you need to un-check the Uniform Offset button and define the offset for each plane
individually. When you uncheck the box the controls change and look like this;-
In a similar fashion to changing Plane properties, you click on the Offset type first, and then hover over the required audience
plane and click when the correct plane is highlighted with the same bold white dashed line. Note that all planes have to be
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