2012/06/04 08:52:00
amiller
So, I saw ARC mentioned in a recent thread here and I'm not familiar with it.  I've got some studio acoustics issues and ARC looks like a product that may help.  What's your experience with the product?  Pros ... Cons?
 
SOS gave it a pretty good review:
 
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar08/articles/ikmultimediaarc.htm
2012/06/04 09:01:26
Guitarhacker
I got it a few months back. 

I have no complaints with it. It has a mic, which you place in the "sweet spot".... where you will be setting during the monitoring and mixing stages.  You move the mic around one position at a time in that area. 3 to 4 foot circle...follow the directions.....  It plays a test tone sound. The mic picks this up and tries to determine the acoustical abnormalities in the listening area and then saves that as a setting.  It is recommended that somewhere between 12 to 24 samples are taken of the sweet spot area to get a good representation of the room.

Upon tracking and mixing, you insert ARC into the master buss and turn it on using the preset. You can have a number of presets for different listening adventures.  Smaller , larger, different location sweet spots.... etc...

During playback, ARC will "correct" the sound that is sent to the speakers for you to hear..... essentially, in theory, flattening the sound to avoid the resonant peaks and nulls that have thrown your monitoring situation off in the past.  It's supposed to let you hear the true sound of the music taking the room as far out of the picture as possible. 

When you are finished..... you turn ARC off and export and listen, and the mix should be better balanced from a sonic point of view to play and sound good across many player platforms. 

hope this helps. 
2012/06/04 09:08:53
gustabo
I've been using it for a while now and wouldn't mix without it.
I had been struggling with getting "the" guitar sound but after arc'ing my room, I was able to dial it in quickly.
My mixes now translate well to other systems whether its a home stereo, jambox, car stereo or laptop speakers.
It's NOT a replacement for treating your room acoustically, which my room is, but a compliment to treatment.
For me, it fixes what treatment didn't.
2012/06/04 09:34:59
DeeringAmps
amiller,

Here's one of the threads where we discuss ARC...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2332292

HTH,

Tom
2012/06/04 10:24:17
trimph1
DeeringAmps


amiller,

Here's one of the threads where we discuss ARC...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2332292

HTH,

Tom
This. I ended up getting this just so that I can find out what the BEEEP!!! is going on with this room..

2012/06/04 11:09:38
DeeringAmps
Trimph,
ARC really isn't the "best" way to analyze your room.

Run some "pink" noise and look at that with Voxango's SPAN (real-time) or Har-Bal.
Ethan Winer has a test tone project you can run; 20-300hz in 1 hz steps.
You record that and you can see the waveform in Sonar bulge and contract.

WARNING: it'll make you crazy, if your room is like mine, the nulls and peaks vary drastically.

Then run the same tests with ARC on and you'll hear/see where things have improved.

Tom
2012/06/04 11:29:26
amiller
DeeringAmps


...Then run the same tests with ARC on and you'll hear/see where things have improved.

Tom
So, how do like ARC?

2012/06/04 11:45:04
DeeringAmps
I think it helps a lot.
Will it make your/my small room "perfect"?
Not a chance.

T
2012/06/04 13:51:13
amiller
DeeringAmps


I think it helps a lot.
Will it make your/my small room "perfect"?
Not a chance.

T


Well, I'm pretty sure my room is FAR from perfect.  It looks like ARC may be something I really need.
2012/06/04 13:55:50
trimph1
meh..my room is already insane to begin with, what's another semi-loon?
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