IK ARC System 3 for $99.99

[cclarry]

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/arc3/

[bluzdog]

[Nick Blanc]

Already using it. I have my studio in my very suboptimal living room. I'm not putting up ugly (or less ugly but still nothing to look at) soundproofing.

[jude77]

1 hour ago, Nick Blanc said:

Already using it. I have my studio in my very suboptimal living room. I'm not putting up ugly (or less ugly but still nothing to look at) soundproofing.

Your curve doesn't really look that bad compared to the one ARC showed for my room.  It sort of reminded me of the Swiss Alps on a sunny day.

[TVbene]

Thanks for the info, couldn’t resist! Now let‘s see if this calibration file for the MEMS mic that someone created on gearspace works. I was about to buy a measurement mic anyway,  quite cheeky that IK Multimedia don’t offer such a file on their own. I also want to use it outside of ARC…

Edited February 3, 2024 by TVbene

[cclarry]

3 minutes ago, TVbene said:

Thanks for the info, couldn’t resist! Now let‘s see if this calibration file for the MEMS mic that someone created on gearspace works. I was about to buy a measurement mic anyway,  quite cheeky that IK Multimedia don’t offer calibration one on their own. I also want to use it outside of ARC…

IK does sell the MEMS Mic separately for $79.99

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/arcmic/?pkey=mems-measurement-microphone-for-arc-system

 

[TVbene]

2 minutes ago, cclarry said:

IK does sell the MEMS Mic separately for $79.99

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/arcmic/?pkey=mems-measurement-microphone-for-arc-system

 

Yes but it seems it’s supposed to only be used with ARC.

https://cgi.ikmultimedia.com/ikforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=29942

[mibby]

I used this after finishing off my basement studio last year and it worked great.  My beef with this software is that it doesn't have a "system wide" capability - you can only use it in your DAW as a plugin.   So I really just used it for measuring the best potions and settings for my monitors and sub with no intention of using the correction, and it worked great. I listen to Tidal and YouTube for referencing so I don't use it.

It's a big dedicated space and I have the luxury of being able to move my listening position around as well as the monitors.   After I get all the gear and crap back into the space and add some acoustic treatment, I'll re-measure then.  But for now, I'm happy and it's world's better than where I started!  (I wish I had the software when I was mixing for years in my unfinished basement so I could have taken before/after measurements.)

I started here, where I wanted my listening position to be:

 

After after weeks of moving things around and tweaking settings on my subwoofer and monitors, got here.

Edited February 3, 2024 by mibby