ARC System Wins a WIHO Award!
“ARC does a beautiful job of making your monitors sound their best”
MusicPlayers.com is the premiere online magazine for serious musicians who constantly strive to improve their abilities and musicianship. Scott Kahn, Editor in Chief, and multiple MusicPlayer editors experienced what ARC System can really do for their studio first hand. They " were impressed by the significant difference it made" and gladly awarded ARC System a WIHO (Wished I Had One) Award. "It's not every day that a new product comes along that makes a significant difference for audio engineers — both pros as well as the home studio crowd, but IK Multimedia's ARC Advanced Room Correction System is something of a revelation in a box. ARC can make a significant improvement in your audio monitoring environment whether you work in a project studio, home studio, or take your recording gear on location.""More than just a fancy, intelligent EQ, ARC's other advantage is that it compensates for phase issues that can occur within an acoustic space; something that corrective EQ curves applied your master output can't compensate for.""ARC's straightforward and easy-to-use user interface makes the seemingly complex process of monitor calibration a snap (especially for musicians who lack audio engineering expertise).""ARC is not just a tool for the project studio, though. While commercial facilities have the staff, tools, and experience to tune their rooms for themselves, engineers who do a lot of location-based recording for artists will love having ARC in tow. Whether you regularly travel with your favorite studio monitors or rely upon whatever gear is present in the makeshift studios you find yourself in (we're imagining bands that love to record in old European castles), ARC will make calibrating your monitors within less-than-perfect acoustic spaces a breeze.""CPU impact was minimal. We didn't seem to experience any loss of processing power as a result of this plug-in on our master output.""ARC does what it's supposed to do, easily and well. It brought improved clarity to the monitoring environment in our project studio, and multiple MusicPlayers.com editors were impressed by the significant difference it made in our listening environment.""It seems as though not only did ARC provide improved clarity throughout the frequency range of our mixes, but it really made our less-expensive studio monitors sound significantly improved. So perhaps before you feel the need to replace a cheap set of monitors with a better pair, it might pay to invest first in ARC, because even great monitors in a poorly tuned room won't sound nearly as good as they should, and then you'll still want something like ARC to make those monitors sound their best.""ARC does a beautiful job of making your monitors sound their best. We'll be purchasing at least a few ARC systems for some of our test studios.""The documentation was generally excellent. With its guidance, we had the software installed, testing underway, and our first set of monitors calibrated in just thirty minutes time.""For the on-location pro engineer and the professional project studio, this is a good price for the package, and after calibrating your monitors, who knows what creative uses you may find for the included microphone — recording acoustic instruments comes to mind for us. Many pro studios will find this tool particularly handy to have around, especially if they're routinely working with multiple sets of monitors in multiple project rooms.""...if you're trying to record quality music at home, this is a tool that you should consider a required component in your home studio... And if you were to hire an outside pro to come in and tune your room, you can expect that the cost of their service (plus acoustic treatments) would surely cost more than the infinitely reusable ARC system."
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2008-09-03
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