Quest For Clarity - SABINE Power-Q Operating Information Manual

The POWER-Q provides up to 12 feedback filters per channel, thus allowing you to excel in your
quest for loudness without compromising your second, equally important goal: QUEST FOR
CLARITY.
Clarity in the sound coming out of your speakers is a result of a myriad of
considerations: the quality of the components you're using, the skill you and others demonstrate
in setting up and operating the system, and the all-important acoustic properties of the room in
which you're operating your system.
Now, it's no secret that some architects skipped class the day of the 20 minute lecture on room
acoustics, which is why so many rock concerts take place in basketball arenas and live sound
people sport premature gray hair. Standing waves, flutter echoes, boominess...the list of prob-
lems is as big as a lead singer's ego. (Our congratulations to those architects who DO pay
attention to room acoustics.)
The good news is that in addition to all the graphic, parametric, and FBX control in your POWER-Q,
you are also the proud possessor of a full-blown Real-Time Analyzer. You can generate pink noise
to help determine the frequency response curve of the surrounding acoustic space and compensate
for its peaks and valleys with your EQ controls, while viewing a graphic display of the results in real
time.
If you'd rather use your time to set up mics, patch in the rest of your gear or take a break, the
POWER-Q Automatic Room EQ feature will analyze the room for you and optimize your system
EQ to the response curve you specify. At the next venue, you can do a quick room analysis (in
less than a minute), then you can recall the memory of all your other EQ settings and every other
parameter previously set on the POWER-Q. You'll be done before the guitarist finishes tuning
(unless he uses a Sabine tuner, in which case it might be a tie).
You can also use the POWER-Q for clearer sound by time aligning speaker stacks with our built-in
digital delay. You can delay sound in one set of speakers by as much as 83.2 milliseconds (with
20 microsecond resolution) to allow sound to reach listeners' ears at the same time. This im-
proves the phase consistency of the program, greatly enhances intelligibility, and synchronizes the
perceived sound origination point so the directional cues from your ears match the visual cues
from your eyes.
In conclusion, the POWER-Q is your friendly rack of goodies conveniently condensed to a 2U box.
It will automatically align your speakers, tune your system to any room, automatically detect and
eliminate feedback before and DURING performance, compress your mix bus, and remember
your setup for a given artist or application. Sorry, it doesn't make coffee, but with everything the
POWER-Q does for you, you'll have plenty of time to make it yourself.