BELTOWER BELTOWERStriking AssessmentBesides listening yourself, Beltower provides a number of ways of monitoring and assessing the striking as illustrated in Screen Shot 1.
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Screen Shot 1shows the variety of monitoring methods. |
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Precision MonitorThe Striking Precision Monitor (new with version 10.05) shows the striking of the ringer's bell. Accuracy is shown at the bottom as a percentage of a strike, early or late, for each of the latest hand and back strokes. The Ringer's Bell is displayed in its relative position, within the range +/- a whole blow (inter-strike interval), and can be enlarged and resized to enhance the visual impact. With perfect striking the bell will appear in the centre, but will shift to left or right (early/late) and the colour will change from green to red, and disappear altogether, as the striking deteriorates. | 
Screen Shot 2shows the 4 with near perfect striking. |
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Audio RecordingsYou can take the sound output from the head-phone socket, via an audio cable to the line-in socket, and make an audio recording using Windows Sound Recorder. This can be saved in WAV format and even, if required, compressed into .mp3 format using free software such as RazorLame. | ||
Making and Re-Playing RecordingsBeltower, on the other hand, can make data recordings, of the striking, of up to 50,000 rows, including free-strike mode, and the recording can be saved, loaded, and subsequently re-played and displayed in the striking report. Hand/back strokes will be recorded independently for each bell and can, optionally, be saved, played and displayed. Recordings include the calls Look To.., Go, Bob, Thats All etc. with editable method voices, and the bells can be re-played on a different combination of bells (eg. the front 6, the back 6 or whatever) and at any pitch, the same as Beltower's normal ringing. The row number and the method name are shown in the status bar and you can scroll to any row (now using the mouse wheel as well), and play-back from there. The title defaults to the date and time, but, using the Recording Details Editor, you can add information such as the place, occasion, composition, dedication, members of the band and their bells, the tenor key/pitch/weight, which of the bells (eg. front 6 of 8) or any other comments. | ||
Striking ReportThe Striking Report is a graphical representation of a striking recording, with fault assessment. Where the speed changes, you can format the report on a row-by-row basis, instead of collectively. There are two types of fault assessment (individual and whole band), and the analysis can also be saved to file, for detailed external review. Screen Shot 3shows the ringer striking irregularly, 'Rounds' where it would normally show the method name, the re-play cursor on the 4th row, and the individual's early/late striking assessment with the average at the top. |
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