IK's ARC is very cool.

OK, WOW. W-O-W

Got the ARC and set up with 32 samples for my primary listening position. What a HUGE difference I'm hearing. d-a-m-n I've been dabbling with a jam session mix from a few weeks ago. Sloppy playing aside, this is sounding pretty darn good. :)

I really don't think I had phase issues, but this plugin seems like it corrected a phase issue. The guitar moved from deep in the center to a little bit forward and a hair to the left; the cymbals have come alive. The snare has more snap. The drums in general seem to take up more space in a good way.

As a guitar player, I've heard the term "like taking a blanket off the speakers" used many, many times for describing many.many things - mostly when descripting installing new pickups, and yeah that's what it seems like with a good pickup upgrade.

It's very much like that for your whole mix.

Very cool, and well worth the money so far.

I look forward to burning a few CDs and testing them in the car and in other locations.

I have had the exact same experience! Really like my IK ARC.

Yeah, another satisfied customer here too.
Not as good as doing an actual full room treatment but for those of us that just don't have the space and/or dedicated room for recording, this thing does wonders.

Mike

+1 ARC is great.

Kudos to Danny Danzi for convincing me to buy it.

I paid nearly double than what you can get it for today and I'm not even regretful. It's worth that much.

bandwagon

me

on it!

With a properly treated room, ARC can't be beat.
Been using it for a couple of years now.

@ ShoreSoundStudios..........--QUOTE--"It'd be nice to have a fully treated room and run ARC too. I think I just drooled on my keyboard a little."-------------- I LOL'd at that, really. haha.

bitflipper


I'll stick with my Audio Magic Speaker Clarifier.

anything that sports both clairvoyant liquid air AND nano-liquid premium fuses must be worth it.  Sign me up!

Glad you all are enjoying it! I was fortunate enough to get the room correction built in to my JBL 4328's. +++1 for having a treated room as well!

But Bapu, it's soooooooo fuuuuuuuuuun! :)

M@ B


The main draw back that I can see is that when you play back a mix that has been exported, either on a CD or from SoundCloud or YouTube, etc, it is essentially like listening to your mix with ARC disengaged and tends to be confusing. The alternative, as far as i can tell, is don't listen to any of your exported mixes in your studio. Kind of a drag... ----------------------- I read somewhere, a while ago, of a device and configuration that allows for ARC to be patched into a system so that all of the audio passes thru it 24/7, but it was a bit convoluted from what i recall.

Audacity Winamp can be setup to use ARC. If your system is setup to play WAVs and mp3s with Audacity Winamp (via ARC) you're golden.


Here's the downside, IMO. You don't want to listen an ARC playback thru headphones so you'd need to take steps to "open with" vs double clicking on an mp3 or WAV when using headphones.


When in SONAR and using headphones I simply have to remember to turn off ARC.

the pricing has actually put me off... *NO* UK price listed.. and you think 60% off..  some of us aren't in the euro zone!!! and can't use jam points either.. I'll see if a real shop will price match it..

smallstonefan


I wish iTunes would support VSTs; would be nice to listen to my music libraries through ARC... (everything is Apple lossless)

personally I can't stand iTunes because of the bloatware they have on your sytems and especially memory resident programs (not just one!).
 
but there's a way to use ARC with winamp.
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=1909712
 

Winamp sounds interesting. I think it is the thing I read about a while ago and didn't quite understand the implementation of it. Can some explain how they use it? That would be very helpful. Thanks.

What do you mean everything apple is lossless?
MP3's and MP4's and AAC's or whatever Apple's proprietary format is, aren't lossless audio, they're all compression formats I thought? A wave file is lossless.