Ever wished you could completely trust what you are hearing in your room?
Your room has a big impact on how you hear your music. Many factors such as the size, shape, materials and furniture all work to distort the frequency and stereo balance of your monitors, degrading your sound.
IK Multimedias Standalone digital acoustic correction system the ARC Studio is an extremely Low Latency all in one solution.
ARC Studio is here to provide a feature packed, affordable solution to flatten the sound of your speakers in your room. ARC Studio combines a standalone correction processor, new ARC 4 measurement software and a room analysis microphone. IK Multimedia’s ARC (Advanced Room Correction) is a system designed to improve the acoustics of your listening environment for accurate audio monitoring purposes. Giving you results from your speakers you can trust so your mixes translate from one listening environment to another.
Improves mixing accuracy and You Can Track With Room Correction On
ARC Studio comes not only with it’s own measurement microphone and the specialised ARC 4 software, it also has it’s own hardware which stores the room correction curves and because it is placed between your Interface and speakers meaning you will have no need to turn the correction on and off when bouncing. ARC Studio system has an almost Zero latency so recording with it on is a breeze.
Easy Speaker Calibration
The ARC 4 software generates test tones that are played through the speakers, the microphone is placed in the listening position using 21 different positions creating a 3D snapshot. The microphone then captures the sound and analyses how the room affects the audio signal. Based on this analysis, the software calculates corrections that can be applied to the audio output to compensate for the room’s acoustic characteristics. The results are stunning and with the software, hardware and microphone all included for a street price of $299.99 it’s incredible value for money.
Get the ARC System here: https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKg7nj
Simple Three Step Installation Process
- Calibrate using ARC Analysis application
Download the ARC Analysis software onto your computer, plug the ARC Mic into your interface and calibrate your room
- Transfer calibration file to ARC Studio
Transfer the calibration file to the ARC Hardware
- Connect ARC Studio to your interface and monitors
We Tested Out The ARC Studio
Nick Sowden from La Barca Sound and I took the new, IK Multimedia ARC Studio through it’s paces and shot out three sets of monitors, Quested S8R Mk II’s, Kali IN-5’s and KEF Q15’s. We did three sets of 21 point microphone placements around the listening position. We then fairly easily tweaked the EQ to our personal preferences, customising the monitors to our taste.
Another feature ARC Studio has is it gives you Emulations of other monitors and playback systems so you can hear what your mixes will sound like on other systems.
Check out the video and let us know what you think of the new ARC from IK Multimedia!
