Question for ARC2 users

2016/12/06 16:28:49

hbarton

This is interesting an interesting slant on room control (and probably way out of my budget)
Controlling Air - Hanson Hsu - Delta H Design:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRe-Lx8yepU

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2016/12/06 16:34:02

batsbrew

KingsMix
Not to be facetious , but how does commercial material sound through it with the settings that ARC has chosen?
Would test it by playing some familiar commercial material through your system that you know the sound of.
Also it wont hurt to just go ahead an mix some material on it, as it is and see where the material lands sonic wise on playback outside your room.

by my experience, it makes the playback sound much better,
as the room has been somewhat corrected.

it's about the same difference listening to my own mixes, with and without arc,
as listening to my set of commercial songs in my 'reference' file that i a/b against......

2016/12/06 16:54:50

bapu

ChuckC
I tried Arc2 for about year some time back. Never worked for me and my mixes were worse.

I wonder...... did you fail to turn off ARC 2 before exporting? It's a common mistake by noobs, especially if you load it on the 2bus. Just in case you didn't know, ARC 2 is for monitoring not exporting.

2016/12/06 17:06:10

ston

ULTRABRA
Mine looks quite similar to yours, except the orange curve dip is well below the -12 line, and the white line on the left is dipping to the first white line on the graph (-3db?) and on the right side to the 2nd white graph line (-6db?).

Blimey, your room must be even worse than mine acoustically, and mine's pretty bad, being a very boxy smallish bedroom. Is there anything you can do to try to improve matters, e.g. speaker placement and mounting?

2016/12/07 00:26:27

sharke

Here's my curves just out of interest - I have my monitors on a shelf 6 inches above my desk, and it's quite near a corner. They sound like crap without ARC but absolutely amazing with it.

2016/12/07 00:30:22

bapu

I'm happy with my curves.

Arc 2 that is:

If I recall I did 20 measurements.

2016/12/07 00:46:34

KingsMix

batsbrew
KingsMix
Not to be facetious , but how does commercial material sound through it with the settings that ARC has chosen?
Would test it by playing some familiar commercial material through your system that you know the sound of.
Also it wont hurt to just go ahead an mix some material on it, as it is and see where the material lands sonic wise on playback outside your room.

by my experience, it makes the playback sound much better,
as the room has been somewhat corrected.

it's about the same difference listening to my own mixes, with and without arc,
as listening to my set of commercial songs in my 'reference' file that i a/b against......

Yeah BB,
I agree. That comment was actually for the OP.
ARC is actually one of my best investments.

2016/12/07 05:26:08

Rob[at]Sound-Rehab

sharke
Here's my curves just out of interest - I have my monitors on a shelf 6 inches above my desk, and it's quite near a corner. They sound like crap without ARC but absolutely amazing with it.

the curves already show you're in a corner ...

bapu

Arc 2 that is:

If I recall I did 20 measurements.

... and bapu is much closer to the center (of the universe) ... as always

2016/12/07 09:43:19

bapu

I am in a partially treated room.

The walls are white muslin and quite padded.

As they should be.

2016/12/07 12:05:44

Rob[at]Sound-Rehab

bapu
I am in a partially treated room.

so am I ...

mix desk chair + absorber

producer sofa behind mix desk ...

music is all about capturing the right spirit

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