I've been doing the research, both here and elsewhere.  It looks like ARC addresses some acoustic issues, however, it also looks like proper bass traps will actually do a better job IN MY CASE.  I have a room that I use for my home studio and the wife could care less how it looks or what I put on the walls...short of naked women.
 
I found a great simple to follow DIY bass trap PDF on the web.  I'm not bad at this type of simple construction.  So, I'm strongly leaning toward making my own traps.  I figure I can make 6 48x24 4" thick traps for about $200 - $250.
 
If I need more acoustic adjustments after the bass traps are installed I can always consider adding ARC to the "mix."
 
What do you guys think?

amiller


I've been doing the research, both here and elsewhere.  It looks like ARC addresses some acoustic issues, however, it also looks like proper bass traps will actually do a better job IN MY CASE.  I have a room that I use for my home studio and the wife could care less how it looks or what I put on the walls...short of naked women.
 
I found a great simple to follow DIY bass trap PDF on the web.  I'm not bad at this type of simple construction.  So, I'm strongly leaning toward making my own traps.  I figure I can make 6 48x24 4" thick traps for about $200 - $250.
 
If I need more acoustic adjustments after the bass traps are installed I can always consider adding ARC to the "mix."
 
What do you guys think?

Seems like the way most of us went.


I spent about $400 on DIY. 7 48x24 4", 2 (side panels) 42x24 2" and 3 48x24 4" portable "vocal booth" panels.


Then I got ARC.


I could have probably spent another $400 and I'm not sure I would have tamed everything anyway.

bapu

amiller


I've been doing the research, both here and elsewhere.  It looks like ARC addresses some acoustic issues, however, it also looks like proper bass traps will actually do a better job IN MY CASE.  I have a room that I use for my home studio and the wife could care less how it looks or what I put on the walls...short of naked women.

I found a great simple to follow DIY bass trap PDF on the web.  I'm not bad at this type of simple construction.  So, I'm strongly leaning toward making my own traps.  I figure I can make 6 48x24 4" thick traps for about $200 - $250.

If I need more acoustic adjustments after the bass traps are installed I can always consider adding ARC to the "mix."

What do you guys think?

Seems like the way most of us went.


I spent about $400 on DIY. 7 48x24 4", 2 (side panels) 42x24 2" and 3 48x24 4" portable "vocal booth" panels.


Then I got ARC.


I could have probably spent another $400 and I'm not sure I would have tamed everything anyway.

So, did ARC finish the job of taming the room for you?  How far did the DIY panels get you?

amiller


I've been doing the research, both here and elsewhere.  It looks like ARC addresses some acoustic issues, however, it also looks like proper bass traps will actually do a better job IN MY CASE.  I have a room that I use for my home studio and the wife could care less how it looks or what I put on the walls...short of naked women.
 
I found a great simple to follow DIY bass trap PDF on the web.  I'm not bad at this type of simple construction.  So, I'm strongly leaning toward making my own traps.  I figure I can make 6 48x24 4" thick traps for about $200 - $250.
 
If I need more acoustic adjustments after the bass traps are installed I can always consider adding ARC to the "mix."
 
What do you guys think?

If you can afford the room treatment plus ARC, you'll end up even more accurate. If you have a perfectly corrected room, your monitors still need to be corrected. Every serious studio around has a Rane eq that is locked from their monitors being analyzed. ARC is a good analyzer and can flatten your monitors once your room is corrected. I've had great results in both treated and untreated rooms. Good luck.
 
-Danny

amiller


So, did ARC finish the job of taming the room for you?  How far did the DIY panels get you?

Not exactly. Here is the visual from ARC




The red line represents the EQ curve that ARC saw and the white/yellowish line represents ARCs correction.

Not "perfect" but as you can see, a lot flatter than it was.

bapu

amiller


So, did ARC finish the job of taming the room for you?  How far did the DIY panels get you?

Not exactly. Here is the visual from ARC




The red line represents the EQ curve that ARC saw and the white/yellowish line represents ARCs correction.

Not "perfect" but as you can see, a lot flatter than it was.

Thanks for posting that.
 In the spirit of wanting to understand my tools I asked twice (and for what ever reason ignored IK') over at gearslutz what and or how many processes ARC might use.
Ok fine.
Looks here like at least a few parimetrics independent for right and left.
Curious that the dip in the hump between 30 and 70ish actually got to be greater relative that span.

mixsit In the spirit of wanting to understand my tools I asked twice (and for what ever reason ignored IK') over at gearslutz what and or how many processes ARC might use.

 
Processes meaning cpu usage? I'm getting about 0.5% per instance or less. My cpu with 1 instance toggles between 0% and 1% staying more at 0% than 1%. With two instances (which is what I usually use) it stays at 1% and may throttle down to 0% for a second, but is more on the 1% side. I hope that answers your question. :)
 
-Danny

Danny Danzi

mixsit
In the spirit of wanting to understand my tools I asked twice (and for what ever reason ignored IK') over at gearslutz what and or how many processes ARC might use.

 
Processes meaning cpu usage? I'm getting about 0.5% per instance or less. My cpu with 1 instance toggles between 0% and 1% staying more at 0% than 1%. With two instances (which is what I usually use) it stays at 1% and may throttle down to 0% for a second, but is more on the 1% side. I hope that answers your question. :)
 
-Danny

Not CPU. What audio processes.
Besides eq they mention phase, and/or hints of things in the time domain IIRC.

mixsit

Danny Danzi

mixsit
In the spirit of wanting to understand my tools I asked twice (and for what ever reason ignored IK') over at gearslutz what and or how many processes ARC might use.

 
Processes meaning cpu usage? I'm getting about 0.5% per instance or less. My cpu with 1 instance toggles between 0% and 1% staying more at 0% than 1%. With two instances (which is what I usually use) it stays at 1% and may throttle down to 0% for a second, but is more on the 1% side. I hope that answers your question. :)
 
-Danny

Not CPU. What audio processes.
Besides eq they mention phase, and/or hints of things in the time domain IIRC.

Can't help ya with that as I don't know all the stuff it's doing under the hood. I can say this though....it's helped me in every room and monitor I've used it on and as a worst case scenario, it's a good monitor "flattener" and comparable to someone coming to your house with an analyzer and setting an eq for you that you never touch. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
 
-Danny