I'm thinking that considering noise concerns in my building and not having a properly treated room that this might be a good purchase. I've always had a hard time getting my stuff to sound good on a wide range of systems. I figure between this unit, my reference monitors, various headphones and speaker set ups I might have a better chance of achieving consistency. For those who have it how much success are you guys are having with it and how well does it interact with Sonar (ie: is it hard to set up, does it cause any weird problems, etc)? Cheers.

It is very useful.  I use it to check all of my mixes.  It works well with Sonar but I get a slight high pitched noise in the background.  That is probably from my USB port and would likely disappear if I got a dedicated USB card instead of using the ones on my mother board.  Also the headphone output on the unit is pretty weak so I run it into my headphone amplifier.   Also the driver panel mysteriously pops up when launching other audio apps.  Tech support says they haven't seen this before and don't know why it is happening.  Even with the small caveats I highly recommend it.

Hi, vv. Hope you've been well. Thanks for the details. So I guess since you have it using USB you are switching soundcard drivers to check your mixes? The one thing that kind of weirds me out is that it only supports up to 48k as an interface and I work at higher sample rates than that. I was thinking I might want to use it to put the finishing touches on mixes so I'd have to use the SPDIF to keep things above 48k but I've also heard SPDIF is an inferior connection (not sure if this is true). Am I missing something? Could you maybe give me a little insight as to how you are going about things? Cheers.

I love it. You Just switch Sonars output to the vm box in the preferences.
Plug your headphones into the vm box, open the plugin, and start switching through the speaker selections.
(I don't use the spdif)

vintagevibe


  It works well with Sonar but I get a slight high pitched noise in the background.  That is probably from my USB port and would likely disappear if I got a dedicated USB card instead of using the ones on my mother board. 

I also had that noise happening when using the VRM Box but I had the VRM Box plugged into a USB hub.  I was using the USB hub without it's power supply connected - when I plugged in the power supply for the USB hub, the noise went away. 

Hi, bandso. That's encouraging but again I'm guessing you are mixing at 48k or lower? I wonder if maybe they'll release a new version that handles higher sample rates. Knowing my luck I'll buy the current model and they release something more powerful. It does seem to be a pretty big success for the FR guys. I found out recently that they have full fledged interfaces with the VRM stuff built in. If I had known that I probably would have picked one of those up instead of my Scarlett.

Yea I only record at 44.1K/24bit.

Thanks for clarifying. I think even with that limitation I'll still gain a lot having the thing around. I may just have to get a little creative with how I use it. Cheers.

The only other thing that comes to mind is that now that I have ARC2 room correction I find myself using the headphone box less. I normally only check with it  when I'm doing a final tweaking of a mix mix and I want to get a rough idea for translation on other speakers. Before I "corrected" my room, my mixes came out much better if the bulk of mixing duties were done on the vrm box. (I guess my little mixing room was pretty bad)

Beepster

 So I guess since you have it using USB you are switching soundcard drivers to check your mixes?

No.  You don't have to use the VRM drivers.  I just send an out from my main interface (Echo Audiofire 8Pre) into the VRM so I don't even use the VRM as an audio interface - just an FX box.  You can do it either way though.