ARC System Overview - Correct your room for better mixing and mastering

[areuter727]

Hair notwithstanding, I can say that the ARC plugin works.

I work in an 8x8 control room when mixing at my home studio. No acoustic treatment. Definitely not ideal conditions.

ARC made my unmixed songs sound muddifer. THIS IS A GOOD THING. Mixing was a lot faster because in the car, in the home theatre...on headphones the mixes sounded good. It takes the room out to extent but most importantly it flattens the frequency response of overhyped speakers.

[areuter727]

...there is nothing more frustrating then spending hours getting a good mix, then listening to it somewhere else and it sounds like crap. Although expensive, monitoring audio is more important than any preamp, mic or whatever you have. I'm using Yamaha HS80m, for the record. Search "studio" on my channel to see a tour of the facilities ;-).

[areuter727]

Oh yeah, one last thing. It's $500 but you get an omni-directional reference microphone with the package. Yes, you can use it to record music/whatever. Do what I did and get one of their plugins and get the $350.00 crossgrade option.

[ikmultimedia]

@areuter727 even our current group buy (which is only $49.99 for FIVE Xpansion Tanks for SampleTank and you get the SampleTank 2 XT engine which is NOT limited in any way with it!) qualifies people for the crossgrade price.

[unclesaboin]

It's a nice concept but it doesn't eliminate the need to treat the room acoustically to control reflections and standing waves, etc. It's more like the extra step that you would use once you've done as much as you can acoustically. The guy is right, though, about the need to have a neutral room as much as possible. If you can take the room out of the mix, you can't take the mix out of the room.

[YEE941]

nice