ARC price drop

get it Herb...you will satisfied

Having just gotten ARC, I can say without hesitation that $199 is an absolute no brainer.  Many have waxed philosophically about ARC, and others hate the very concept.  I will simply add that as a person without the ability to do much acoustic treatment, ARC is an amazing program that has become absolutely indispensable.  

It is shockingly helpful.

timidi


Where?

don't see it here:
http://www.audiomidi.com/nobrainers.aspx

Audiomidi's website is still lacking......if you go into their "No Brainer" section, everything is SOLD OUT!! I don't see the point in not having anything in this section but only the sold out items?
 
Anyway Tim, I found this by searching for Arc at their site: http://www.audiomidi.com/Products/ikm_arc/ (the list price and sales price are the same $199).
 
 

Actually, it isn't an exclusive AudioMidi sale - IK themselves announced the price drop last weekend. 

Odd. :s 
Anyway, it is $199 on IK's own site.

Guitarhacker


SO I'm guessing that maybe, they are getting ready to release a new....updated...version and need to dump inventory to make way for the new stuff....

Or.... maybe it's just really slow right now in the January after Christmas sales season and they need to generate some cashflow  with a sale. 

Either way...I'm in. 

Could be although you could always find it on the internet for around $200.00. 
Hope they finally get a 'bypass when bouncing' feature figured out.

I love me some ARC. Granted, there is no substitute for room treatment, But if you can hang some room treatment and use ARC both well ,nirvana. Herb, the more measurements you make when you set up the better,even try sitting in your control position when making the measurements. Most of the haters are the guys who sell foam panels to hang on your wall.

musicman100


But if you can hang some room treatment and use ARC both well ,nirvana. 

Exactly what I did. For under $800 I have a pretty good monitoring situation.

Once they drop a price, they often have a hard time going back to where it was..... normally a new version will take that price place. 

Guitarhacker


SO I'm guessing that maybe, they are getting ready to release a new....updated...version and need to dump inventory to make way for the new stuff....

Or.... maybe it's just really slow right now in the January after Christmas sales season and they need to generate some cashflow  with a sale. 

Either way...I'm in. 

Herb
I just got ARC last week. Orderd it directly from IK........paid for ground shipping and got it less than two days later....
 
CON'S
MY ONLY nit was when I opened up my CD it looked like it was a used disk...had a few smudges and a couple of very small nicks.....but I decided to stick it in my Machine and do the install.....
 
now 64 bit did not work for me so I ended up rolling back to the original version which all is now well in ARC Land.....
 
PRO's
This past Thanksgiving I rearranged my studio (a spare bedroom which is 10' x 12' with a closet inside the room and a little nook I used for a vocal corner.....ok squaking corner!)
Now that being said I also got an SPL meter for Christmas 
 
so I first balanced all my speakers with this meter. I was very meticules about it.....
 
.I used my old gigging music stand to set the SPL Meter on and aimed it straight ahead then used a tape measure to rasie the SPL Meter to where my ear level would normaly be while sitting in my chair facing forward ....... (used Pink noise, not white noise for the test)
 
then I used a mic/boom stand and used the level and tape again to properly level and place the ARC mic diaphram.....(Mic diaphram at ear level not the boom arm) 
 
I then I took my ARC Room measurements for my monitors....(I was able to get 32 readings for my room)
 
I then inserted ARC on a master track of a project and studied my results.............
 
I was not happy with my room's bass reflections at all with my Right Hand monitor results....
 
So after thinking this whole thing thru all day on Sunday and doing a little internet research ... I.......well........I decided to tear the studio apart and start all over again to reconfigure and improve my Results.....which I did. It took me 6 hours to do...........
 
once done I started with my SPL measurements and balancing all over again
 
Next came the ARC Measurements again
 
After viewing the results I improved what I had from the origianl tests and ARC made a much better adjustment but I still knew I could do better..........
 
So I hung up some blankets, adjusted some switches on the back of my monitors and redid the ARC measurements...........
 
I did this in total 4 more times....... (approx. 4 more hours of work)
 
The RESULT
It was worth the work.............It was worth the work.............while my room is not perfectly flat it is however a lot better....I will be investing in some bass traps which I think with improve it some more...
 
but the correction that ARC has done now is really really good and I feel it was worth the price of admission...the room right now is as good as it's going to get.....
 
I was listening to some reference material (acoustic and electric) and all I can say is ........WOW.......What an improvement...........did I mention that it was worth all the work?????
 
 
Let me know how it turns out for you sir.......
this was just my 2 cents
 
Clifford
 

Rain


Odd. :s 
Anyway, it is $199 on IK's own site.

I see $299 on the IK site.


http://www.ikmultimedia.com/shop/?start=0&newflag=Y

Never believe the hype (from anyone not just IK). Simples.

 
arc 2 Just released today. Can't wait to hear the reports. It looks VERY good on paper. I have had Arc 1 installed in my studio for a year plus. My studio is very well treated acoustically so the correction that arc gives is minimal. However I like better than good definition when I mix and I think arc takes me closer than I can get without it. ANYWAY I am waiting for the first buyers to give an assessment in the forum.
Thanks
(upgrade price 99 usd)

Thanks BAPU you are a true gatekeeper...nothings gets past you

Actually you CAN use up to 25 Jam Points on ARC for the crossgrade version .