Well, I too owe my purchase to Danny's advice.... Obi should put him on a spiff program or at least hook him up with free stuff.  I know there's a hell of a lot more than two of us in this same boat on this forum alone.

M@ B


Do you disable arc when you check your mix in the cans?

Oh yeah.....

M@ B


Do you disable arc when you check your mix in the cans?

Yeah. I disable it for two reasons and two reasons only.
 
1. When getting proper mix levels on my master bus before exporting.
 
2. When listening through cans.
 
Bapu: instead of using the trim on ARC, you can get closer if you just adjust the bus fader you have ARC in. It allows you to get a little more precise in my opinion. Something weird with that trim knob too. I've abandoned the meters and the trim knob and just look at the bus meters it's on. Even though I have those calibrated now, I STILL run a pass through the master bus without ARC to make sure my master bus output numbers are where they should be. :)
 
Chuck: I bet you I've sold more units of ARC than IK salesman. The thanks I get...tech support closes my cases without an answer. I'll never say anything good about IK's support though I do love the plug. Two times they just closed my case and expected ME to do the work for them and asked me to install something other than Sonar. Never remedied my issue or anything. As a matter of fact, one of their regional bosses asked me to work for the company. I told the guy I'd help out and he never bothered to get back to me. The only guy they have on their staff worth something in my opinion, is Obi. He's always been a man of his word. Don't change and become like the others Obi...they are lucky to have jobs man...they lost me as a customer and trust me, I sold quite a few units for you guys. But because ARC is so good, I deal with my issues. I can't say I'll buy any other IK software though...support needs a re-write...sorry.
 
-Danny

@Chuck C, Are you sure something else isn't going on? I've got the hs80ms and i'm using Arc with them and it's made their response more neutral, taken that upper mid harshenss away altogether. 

I made a few mistakes initially but with the latest set i did i'm really hearing the benefits of Arc. I'm listening to all my music through Winamp with the vst bridge for reference so i can compare the effects, or there's JRiver Media Player which work with asio. It's a marked improvement, especially on the low end and percussive stuff. I can listen for hours without any fatigue. 

I didn't know what effect it would have and i did a lot of research before i bought it, of which Dannys' posts on Arc were really useful. I've been looking for something i route audio through Arc with so would love to know what software that is. I have tried JackAudio but i'm having problems getting it working. 

Awesome! Sounds like Arc is showing it's worth. I have read about it being better to start fresh with Arc than to try using it on existing projects but if remixing the track with Arc is working then i guess it's a non-issue. If you like the 80s you'd love them with Arc, the low end extension it adds is great!

I'd really like to know what that software is, would be great to have it strapped across the soundcards outputs for other things. 

@Everyone

Just validating ARC as an absolute 'must have'!  I'm exceedingly glad Danzi set the studio paradigms strait for 2012!!! 

Extreme thanks Danziland!!! 

Its interesting that Danziland Productions Mastering House employs ARC and has ME'd 3 of my mixes to utmost perfection!!!  I doubt Danzi's studio looks anything like the $500k+ studios of UA, Abbey Road, Bob Katz, etc.  But, I'm certain he can master a mix as well or better than these 'traditional' giants!

... it should help make spending $50k-100k on a pro-studio (with high ceilings, multi-bass traps, etc., etc.) a complete waste of time and money!

(Unfortunately, IK-M has some of the worst support on the planet and Obi himself continually evades IK support issues ... while pushing sales on the Sonar Forums -- hahahah!)  I will NEVER buy another IK product due to IK-M poor tech support in the 64-bit world.)

Not sure what happened with the quotes there. 

@Philip, yeah the proof is in the pudding and Arc is good eating. If anyone can help me, does it make a big difference to cover a wider area than the listening position in a large room? I know it should in theory but i've kept my measurements focused around the listening position and the correction seems to translate pretty well throughout my room. There does seem to be a little bit of phasiness and i can't hear any difference with the delay engaged so i'm thinking of doing another set using all 32 measurements. Cheers.

Yes to your last question.

I think after a while, you get accustomed to how your monitor chain 'lies' to you, and can start compensating for your room as ARC does.     

@Phillip glad you got ARC working in your studio. I just wanted t o clear up that I run from support issues. That is very untrue, I always try to get our customers taken care of. I'm not support, I don't know all the technical stuff our great support staff does so I refer people to them, but I always try to help and answer anybodys questions when I can.

See? There you go. 

I have Amplitube 3 and ARC (both 64 bit) and have not had one problem with ARC.

cellarboy


I just ordered ARC and have a question for the ARC users - Where were you standing/sitting while performing the measurements? Thanks!

Just move far enough away that your body is not likely to be a perceptible acoustic factor.  Where a good place is will depend on your room layout.  ARC gives you plenty of time to get out of the way ... even into the next room in most situations ... before it fires off the test signal.

tyacko


@Phillip,

I know where you are coming from.  I was unable to get ARC 64-bit working on my machine for the better part of 2011.  I had an ticket in the IK support site all of that time.  The best they came up with was to un-install and install again with the latest version (1.3.1 if I remember correctly).  When I installed that I got the same crashing problem as the earlier version.  They asked for a crash dump (which i provided) and never heard anything since.  I even kept updating the issue they kept closed asking for status as my issues wasn't resolved.

In December, I saw a similar issue for a user on another site and they said they asked for help from IK.  I told them my situation (which was similar to theirs).  IK got back to them with the solution of installing the free Amplitube VST because it included the DLL that was causing the issue in the 64-bit ARC install.  I tried that out of desperation and it solved the problem for me.  Not that IK support supplied that to me.  Another kind user did.

So, I have no plans on purchasing any other stuff from IK and I have no plans on recommending their stuff to anyone either.

Tom

Wow. I'll have to try this as I'm having the same problem here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2528779



Thanks Tom

We have been working on a fix, but temporarily SampleTank FREE/AmpliTube FREE is a quick and simple fix til we finish the next ARC update.