Thinking of purchasing it. I treated my room (spare bedroom) with foam and saw much improvement in my mixes, however they still need work. So the foam helped, but didn't do the job. I am thinking of buying the IK Multimedia ARC Room Correction System 2. Any reviews, feedback, was it worth the $300?  I saw one post from someone who received it and sounded like he was having issues, however he only had it one day. Any infor would be appreciated!

Lot's of talk about it has happened in the software? forum.
I personally use it and love it but I did treat my room first.
ARC was just icing on the cake.

Gustabo - was it worth the $300? and are you happy with your mixes now. I know you said you love it, so I am thinking yes? Do you have any mixes I could hear posted somewhere?

I paid $250 a year and a half ago for v1 and $75 for the upgrade to v2 when it came out.
My mixes translate well between car stereo, home stereo, studio, jam box, etc.
Regarding my mixes, I would have to check with my clients first but here are a few links.
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1254745
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1750146
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1547435

I think its fantastic. My room is untreated and before i had it, it would sound great in the studio but be bass heavy and lacking in mids/highs everywhere else. Since ARC 2 i am definitely finding a what you hear on your monitors is what you hear everywhere else more or less and my mixes have improved hugely and take less than half the time (and a quarter of the test CD's) than they used to. You just need to be REALLY methodical and precise when setting it up. ARC2 is also a big improvement over ARC1.
Worth every penny to me.

Bibs

gustabo


I personally use it and love it but I did treat my room first.
ARC was just icing on the cake.

+1.


It really helps my mixes, IMO.


Am I perfect with it? No. But that is usually do to human error.

Gustabo - Thanks! I am just a home recording hobbyist, don't worry about the mixes. I forget that some folks are good enough at this to make money and have clients! LOL!! I do it for fun, get aggrivated alot but still love to do it.  Thanks you, wizard and bapu, I just ordered ARC System 2, will be here friday! I am excited!!!! Will let you know how it works. 

Thanks all!!!! 

I absolutely love ARC. It's made mixing so much easier, especially below 300hz. The amount of clarity I can hear in my old Mackie HR824's (which are known to have a sorta flubby low-end) blows my mind.
A recommendation, get winamp if you don't already have it, and the vst host for it here
http://www.savioursofsoul.de/Christian/programs/winamp/
With that you can listen to music/masters/mixdowns, and still still get the room correction going on.

Arc has helped my mix translate to other systems so much that I rarely even need to check them in other systems. A lovely piece of software.

Mark

So is this good for an untreated room?  Or do I still need some room treatment?

I am using ARC1 with my ADAM-A7 monitors and it helps greatly in my untreated room. I also upgraded to ARC2 and have it installed - just haven't done the programming yet - It's good to hear ARC2 is even better. Now i think i'll get ARC2 done tonight!