Don't Make These Sonarworks Reference Mistakes! Do This Instead! 

That's great! It definitely improved my workflow as well!

Haven't checked out Arc Studio yet, any key differences between Sonarworks/Reference ID?

Cheers! Glad it helped!

Such a great feature of Cubase, and I certainly hope other DAWs implement it as well!

I did the same thing in Bitwig by unplugging the output of the master channel and creating an audio channel that monitors the master and outputs directly to my speakers.

The control room feature is definitely a plus 1 for Cubase and Prosonus Studio over Pro Tools in that category - would love that option! I can set up a monitoring bus in Pro Tools but it's not as elegant ;)

@@malcomowenflood Pros and Cons of the audio life. Win some Lose some. Hope you have an awesome weekend Malcom!!

A good distinction.

Yes we all its not correcting the room itself, its not like it will add acoustic panels to your room, and bass traps, it corrects the room is just a way of words, words are many time cant explain things perfectly. in fact I have watched a video anyone really explain it well, we use our brain to figure out what they are saying. This is people should explain this, your room affect how your speaker presents the sound you hear from them. what you think you are hearing is mostly a lie, because the acounstics of rooms will add or room certain frequency in the audio spectrum, and give a very False presentation of whatever you are listenning, and all these without you even realizing. You might hear certain bass notes sound louder and shaking your room, you like it, you might hear certain frequency is much reduced. Meaning not true or not flat enough. So Room correction software will reveal the frequency response of what your room and speakers are doing and show you in graph. then correct it. if 10 more of 120 hz it will reduce it minus 10 decibels, it correct all in false and give you the truth. So that not you will hear from speakers the true sound with the right of volume for each or all the frequncies. So its basically just eq to compensate for where you speaker is adding or cutting certain frequency and literally add EQ. Some use Sonarworks free trial just to see the response curve of their system and see the correction required. t shows them all bands, the q factor how much cut or boost. and you can even use your choice of EQ at the end of your master buss effect space, and Eq using what Sonar work says. So you equing what your speakers soundlike. I think in future some clever company can make speakers with all these built it. its not impossible to add equalization to a speaker, and a kind effect and fix your room by eqing to compensate for the room. You see that it takes a dedicated person like me to take time and explain things well. i just watch videos and I see some people cant put words what they want to say.

Yes we all its not correcting the room itself, its not like it will add acoustic panels to your room, and bass traps, it corrects the room is just a way of words, words are many time cant explain things perfectly. in fact I have watched a video anyone really explain it well, we use our brain to figure out what they are saying. This is people should explain this, your room affect how your speaker presents the sound you hear from them. what you think you are hearing is mostly a lie, because the acounstics of rooms will add or room certain frequency in the audio spectrum, and give a very False presentation of whatever you are listenning, and all these without you even realizing. You might hear certain bass notes sound louder and shaking your room, you like it, you might hear certain frequency is much reduced. Meaning not true or not flat enough. So Room correction software will reveal the frequency response of what your room and speakers are doing and show you in graph. then correct it. if 10 more of 120 hz it will reduce it minus 10 decibels, it correct all in false and give you the truth. So that not you will hear from speakers the true sound with the right of volume for each or all the frequncies. So its basically just eq to compensate for where you speaker is adding or cutting certain frequency and literally add EQ. Some use Sonarworks free trial just to see the response curve of their system and see the correction required. t shows them all bands, the q factor how much cut or boost. and you can even use your choice of EQ at the end of your master buss effect space, and Eq using what Sonar work says. So you equing what your speakers soundlike. I think in future some clever company can make speakers with all these built it. its not impossible to add equalization to a speaker, and a kind effect and fix your room by eqing to compensate for the room. You see that it takes a dedicated person like me to take time and explain things well. i just watch videos and I see some people cant put words what they want to say.

@@BurningBushPedagogy Do note that a room does not have a frequency response. Every point in a room has a different frequency response because of modes and standing waves. If you room is not perfectly set up, a bass note which is loud at one spot may be inaudible a foot away.

If you'd like to look into some studio monitors with calibration DSP built into them, have a look at the Neumann KH80 DSP. Haven't got to try them for myself yet, but a colleague recently moved to that system and is loving their built in correction tools. I can't speak to if it's better or worse than using Sonarworks, or doing it manually, but it seems like an interesting solution!

Great feature! Some of the new generation Neumanns now offer this as well and I’d love to move to that eventually!

The point of this video is to help people who already use Sonarworks to get an improved workflow - it's not trying to sell it to you or anyone else. That said, if you're curious about it, they do offer a free trial which I'd highly recommend. I used the trial to make the decision for myself and found that my mixes did in fact translate more accurately, and most importantly it increased the speed at which I was able to mix a song on average by a few hours.

I don’t have much experience with REW currently, but I definitely may do a deep dive into properly measuring your room with Sonarworks Reference and SoundID!

I absolutely agree! Sonarworks rules!

​@@malcomowenflood the best kept secret is that sonarworks don't fix your RT 60 :)