Goals - Martin Audio MLA MINI Advanced User's Manual

MLA MINI
DISPLAY 2.2
The Environment window allows you to activate the air absorption system which will compensate
for the environmental conditions in the same way as the system did for the splay angles. The
temperature, humidity and pressure can be entered into this window.

GOALS

The Goals section is the critical point where we activate and set the values and balance of goals
for the EQ optimisation.
The three goals are Leakage, Target and Hard Avoid. The relative balance for each of these is
controlled by the horizontal faders with the numeric percentage value of each showing to the
right. The default starting position is each with equal importance so a level of 33% for all three
(yes that equals 99% not 100, get over it...).
Leakage is the spill onto non-audience areas the importance slider is coloured red to match the
red non–audience planes in the Coverage tab. It can be deactivated by un-checking the 'on' box.
The default value is 20 which means that the system will attempt to achieve a level at least
20dB below the audience level.
Target controls the audience level, as with the other goals it can be deactivated. The option is
primarily there for consistency, it would be highly unusual not to want to optimise the audience
area but not impossible, for example, if you had an area off site where it was crucial to keep
levels to an absolute minimum you would make the area hard avoid and give maximum priority to
the Hard Avoid goal by deactivating Leakage and Target. Target is shown with a green slider also
to match the green audience region in the Coverage tab. The goal figure is 0.7dB by default so
the optimisation will attempt to match the magnitude contour set in the Coverage Tab to within
0.5dB.
Hard Avoid also has an 'on' check box and a blue importance slider. The default Goal is 30dB
lower than the audience level for any plane selected as hard avoid.
The importance sliders allow you to set the relative importance of each of the three goals, two if
you have one of the goals switched off. If you have two switched off the fader for the remaining
function will automatically go to 100% and will no longer be adjustable. If you attempt to switch
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