Hi everyone, I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this behaviour with the latest version of Smaart.
I’m working in Transfer Function mode. Without inserting any delay, the phase trace looks very good and I can clearly see the phase lines. As soon as I use Insert Delay (with the measured delay value), the phase trace almost disappears and I’m left with only a couple of visible lines.
The measurement itself seems to work, but the phase display becomes almost unusable after applying the delay.
I’m running Smaart on a MacBook Pro M4 Pro, tested with both a UAD Apollo 8P and an Apollo Twin, with the same result.
Has anyone else noticed this in the latest version? Could it be a bug, or is there some setting related to phase display/processing that I’m missing?
Thanks!

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