I recently found out about RiTA and decided to try it out.
Its an FFT analyzer made by a Spanish engineer called Pepe Ferrer and its team at Global Audio Solutions Global Audio Solutions
The software costs 210 Euros, but I paid 336 Euros for the software and the 5 day online operator course.
So after a 15 hour live training via Zoom by the creator and playing a bit with the software to measure my monitors and car, here are my thoughts.
It's an FFT analyzer like the ones we use with some key differences.
Conclusions.
It's a great tool with its pros and cons, like all of them.
Like the rest of the tools we use to tune, it's not specifically designed for car audio. We are using pro/home audio tools for the car. The only tool made for the car is TuN/MAX and you pay the price to play, but it's the easiest one to use in real time in the car.
I'll be using RiTA a lot more in the future but still use Smaart as my main tool.
Here are some pics.
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J.
Its an FFT analyzer made by a Spanish engineer called Pepe Ferrer and its team at Global Audio Solutions Global Audio Solutions
The software costs 210 Euros, but I paid 336 Euros for the software and the 5 day online operator course.
So after a 15 hour live training via Zoom by the creator and playing a bit with the software to measure my monitors and car, here are my thoughts.
It's an FFT analyzer like the ones we use with some key differences.
- It was designed to measure with the least noise possible. So instead of using pink noise (which it can also use) it uses an ESS (Exponential Sine Sweep) to capture the Impulse Response (Instead of the TF like the others). The advantages of doing it this way where explained in the course, but to sum it up the IR can be manipulated and since all systems are linear an non time variant you can optimize the measurement with its DSP. It also makes it easier to see the sub IR, which can be hard on other analyzers.
- It has an 8 channel virtual DSP. This is one is a highlight for sure. After you take the IR, you can use the DSP to apply gain, polarity, delay, X-overs, EQ, all pass filters, it can average or sum several measurements and you can capture the result as both a new IR or a snapshot.
- The virtual DSP is also a great learning and teaching tool in which you can play with several signals to learn about phase, summation, etc.
- It has automations to auto align mains to subs, subs to subs. It tells you what to do to fix it. Add x amount of delay, add all pass, polarity, etc.
- It can auto EQ to target, magnitude, phase or both and generate FIR filters.
- Its still in development, so a lot more interesting stuff should be added.
Conclusions.
It's a great tool with its pros and cons, like all of them.
Like the rest of the tools we use to tune, it's not specifically designed for car audio. We are using pro/home audio tools for the car. The only tool made for the car is TuN/MAX and you pay the price to play, but it's the easiest one to use in real time in the car.
I'll be using RiTA a lot more in the future but still use Smaart as my main tool.
Here are some pics.
J.
