DeeringAmps
Danny,
The "corrected" project sounds much different, so YES, I am sure its working.
Just re-booted to verify.
I'll just have to learn to turn ARC off when I export.
I'm wondering if the clean install has anything to do with the save and settings issues?
Are you running the sub off its own analog out? IF so do you EQ that output, meaning put a low-pass on it?
Thanks
Hi Tom,
It must be working correctly then and I can probably move over to 1.3.1. I'll explain my situation. I had a box running XP and always updated ARC each time they updated it. On one of the updates, it would save in my Sonar project but wouldn't play the correction as I mentioned. I reverted to an older version and I was fixed.
Another new version came out and I read something about "if you use this new version, you should do a re-correction of your room since we have made some fixes to the correction procedure." So, I saved my old corrections, but downloaded and installed the latest ARC and redid my room corrections. When I was done the correction and went to save what had taken me an hour, it crashed on me. I tried it again, and it crashed on me again at the end. Later in that week, a bud of mine who had purchased ARC called me and said "dude, I can't make it save the correction file...it crashes on me every time!"
So we then found out that this was a problem and went back a version or two and we were all fixed up. Now, the pc I mentioned to you above died about a year ago. I had Jim Roseberry build me a box running Win 7 x64. The latest ARC version during that time last year, I didn't try to do a correction with because all my corrections were done already and backed up. So all I had to do was load them into the ARC folder upon install. When ARC was loaded and my correction was loaded, it worked fine. I saved the project with ARC in the bus, and shut down Sonar. Sonar 8.5 32 bit by the way. When the project was re-opened, I noticed it sounded funny....the sound of uncorrected monitors. I double click ARC that's already on the bus, it shows the right correction, is enabled, but it clicking the orange button doesn't change the sound at all. Reload the correction from the preset menu, it works, save the project, reopen, it's not working again. So I knew this was still not fixed and went back to 1.1.1 I believe and I've been there ever since. I'll have to try this new one and see if it works for me. I'm just afraid to mess with things. I've been fortunate that just reverting back has always helped fix my problem. I'm just afraid that one of these times, it's gonna screw me over and I just can't afford to take that chance with the amount of work I do.
As for the sub, I have it routed into a hardware controller that allows all the speakers that pass through the unit to have the sub play along with them. There's a dedicated sub button on the hardware controller that allows me to enable or disable it. I don't use any channels for it. My Adam monitors go into the sub, the sub into this monitor controller box, and then all other monitors go into the box and the sub will play along with any of them that are selected. ARC was used to correct them all with the sub being on and off.
Beagle
Danny - I have had the same experience as Tom. and when by-passing it is very obvious that it has been correcting my low end because it sounds like I no longer have a low end (relatively) when I enable ARC.
I had no problems with saving the test file (I made 25 measurements for my first test). I didn't try it in 8.5.3, but in X1 64bit it has been working fine since I installed it.
Glad it's working for you Reece. Yeah, if this thing wasn't working, you would hear the sound of your old monitors while ARC was enabled...and pressing the button on and off would not change anything. If you are hearing a difference upon opening a saved Sonar project where toggling the plug or the orange button on and off makes a huge difference in sound, you are working properly. You like it so far?
-Danny