SpectraFoo incorporates standards-based level metering, high-speed, high-resolution spectral analysis, the unique Phase Torch, correlation metering, triggerable waveform display, power balancing, and a variety of power, envelope, and spectral histories and phase analyses.
Sullivan, who has worked with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Lopez, and 98 Degrees, and is currently on tour with Jessica Simpson, relies on SpectraFoo to provide the metering and analysis tools that he generally cannot find on the road. "Typically a touring vendor might send out an LED analyzer with not many features or functions - such as memory slots. Say you want to measure the room in twenty different spots and save twenty different presets of what the room looks like. With 'Foo being software-based, you can memorize as many snapshots as you want. The third-octave style analyzer, with which a concert sound system is typically tuned, can be recreated with SpectraFoo, except you can have presets for how it looks. I also send my [console] solo cue buss to it and use the phase scopes. Touring boards don't have those kinds of features on them."
Additionally, Metric Halo's Mobile I/O 2882+DSP FireWire audio interface offers a variety of input and output formats and provides essential signal routing. In addition the MIO allows Sullivan to archive performances. With the Mobile I/O about the same dimensions as a typical laptop, the compact set-up can go anywhere with Sullivan ensuring he has all the tools he needs.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
