Meyer Sound galileo 616 operating instructions About Meyer Sound, Compass

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About Meyer Sound

Since its founding, Meyer Sound has been devoted to meeting the needs of sound reinforcement professionals with the finest products available, the industry’s most extensive and knowledgeable customer support, and high-level technical education.

The 1970s saw sound equipment for live performance increase in power capability, but not in reliability or fidelity. In 1979, John and Helen Meyer established Meyer Sound to create and support high-quality products for sound reinforcement and recording, designed to meet the real challenges faced by audio practitioners. Today, the company’s history shows a track record of almost 30 years of innovation, quality, performance and support.

Meyer Sound has more than 250 employees at its Berkeley, California, headquarters and satellite offices, including one of the largest engineering staffs (in proportion to company size) in the audio industry. International sales and support are supplied by more than half a dozen offices around the globe. The company works closely with professionals in all areas of sound reinforcement, gathering information on customers’ needs and providing the tools, training, technical support and information to enable the best experience possible for sound system users and audiences alike. Meyer Sound products are manufactured entirely at its Berkeley factory, where high technology is combined with hand craftwork. By performing core processes in house, the company is able to exercise the control to insure its quality standards are met and that each unit is exactly the same as the last.

John and Helen Meyer have been personally involved with the performing arts for years, which has given them a feeling for the role of technology in the arts. Meyer Sound is often involved directly with the performing arts at both corporate and individual levels, locally in Berkeley and worldwide. This is one more way that the company stays in touch with the real reason for its existence.

COMPASS

With all the features and power offered by Galileo® 616, giving the user a comprehensive, intuitive way to control them is paramount. Meyer Sound’s Compass software fulfills this requirement. Running under either the Macintosh or Windows operating system, Compass provides a graphical user interface that is the result of years of experience optimizing complex systems.

Compass’ Galileo Map lets users see signal flow at a glance. The unique filter display shows and allows direct editing of the composite response created by the CP-10 and TruShaping® filters. Filter parameters can be edited graphically or by direct text or numeric entry. Seeing the

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