This tool (Reference) changed my music life as my room sucks and it made music much more listenable (and avoid over correction in mixes). But a bit disappointed by the "upgrade", SoundID crashes way more than Reference, but the new features were too good !
I agree, went back to reference 4 after trying the SoundID for a few weeks and having lots of stability issues. I'm on a PC, Wondering if you were experiences issues on a PC or MAC, Cheers
Was on the fence about this. I didn’t know it had the listening environments feature I may get this now 😊. I have a reference mic and use some free software to figure out the best placement for my soundpanels but this looks like it’ll be good to have too.
So i just got it, better said, upgraded from Reference 4, and i'm really in love with it, but now im curious. If i have a profile that makes my headphones flat, and i playback the sections where you show us your corrections for your speakers, will i be able to hear what you are hearing? 🤔 will i be able to hear what your speakers sound like without corrections? now that would be very interesting.
Hi , iv got sonarworks ,I have a question , I have a SSL6 mixing desk which will be in my mixing chain , when I’m setting up my speakers to sonarworks to calibrate should I plug my mic in to the mixing desk then from the desks to the soundcard. Or should I plug the mic straight into the sound card or interface , thanks
Thanks for the review. Is my understanding correct that the "Translation Check" is to see if any particular instrument is standing out too often across the spectrum of checks? I guess the idea is to keep mixing until it sounds best across all those sources, which obviously, is the hard part.
Yup. It's to make you go back and adjust it. Goal is to make it sound it's best on all playback systems. Compensation will always be the enemy unfortunately
You haven't said anything about connectivity. I understand that the mic is connected to a PC to measure the speakers. But what device is doing actual correction automatically based on the measurements?
How do you find this version compares to Dirac (obviously Soundid has some other benefits like headphones etc, but looking at purely the results from speaker calibration)
Sonarworks levels the playing field and will transform the life of any and every home studio engineer in the most untreated and baren rooms for professional translatabe mixes.
I want to see you come in after with something like SMAART and take measurement in the listening position with this plugin engaged to see the simulated estimate compared to an actual measurement
Is the 44.1kHz limit on the standalone because you're on Mac, or is that true for all versions of the software? My current interface does not play nice with 44.1 (it's stupid, I know, I want to replace it but I'm stuck with it for a couple of features I need), so that's a bit of a make-or-break for me.
44.1k is only required for the measurement stage for technical reasons (the mic locating signals are built for 44.1k, although this limitation will be improved on in the near future). Either way, after the measurement stage, you can use whichever sample rate setting you need
That's good to know, thanks for hunting my comment down, Karlis! I guess I'll have to see how that goes with my interface's misbehaviour, but I hope that will be fine?
If you use the translation check, you first have to insert the correction curve of your own system, otherwise the translation gets lost or distorted. Am I right here?
The funniest part is listening to the KH80s profile through my system seems to fix a lot of what I don't like about your mixes lol (I won't lie, I'm not a huge fan of your mixes).
