ARC of the Covenant

[Stan_Halen]

I didn’t have to add anything to WinAmp but the wrapper, Stan. ASIO comes up stock for me. Is your interface not ASIO or something? Even if you had to use some sort of ASIO adapter, you’d only be using it for WinAmp so you could monitor through ARC.

Yes, my interface is ASIO, I was just assuming that since they had a ASIO adapter on that page that you’d need it. I do really want to use ARC for other listening etc so I’ll give the Winamp thing a try. I see that they actually are transitioning to a whole new Winamp next year, I hadn’t given Winamp a thought in many years now. Even this version I got off their site is a Beta of 5.8, they said it got leaked to the internet early and posted to other sites, so they went ahead and made it available. I don’t see any legacy or non-Beta versions available.

I’m using 1.15 for Win 7. Works fantastic and I’d recommend starting there. That’s the only way you can reference without opening an instance of Reaper or some other DAW.

I’m on Win 7 so I’ll try that one.

If it is sounding drastically different than your monitors with ARC off, you may want to do another correction using the methods I shared with you. You should notice an improvement for the better instantly. I didn’t have to learn my monitors. ARC took all the bad stuff out and left me with a pallet that was easy to work with. If I need bass, I add it and the mix actually needs it. The hardest thing is the bass thing.

I’m actually pretty happy with what it did to my low end. The graph says I had lots of buildup from 100-300 Hz, and it brought that way down. And my sub freqs were kind of weak so it added some to them. I don’t know if it’s low mids missing that is freaking out my ears, but it may be that 300 Hz-ish stuff that I had got used to. Like I said it was just such a shock, sounded better in some ways but much brighter and thinner than I was used to. Yes, I may do some sculpting - fine tweaks - to feel better with the sound that is coming out, after I settle in with it a bit.

My KRK’s were good with and without sub

I hope that works for me, I have KRK V6 (series 2) without a sub. Which KRK’s do you have? I also use other speakers with a sub (mainly for the sub info), which I can route to my interface if needed, or may try with Winamp too. It will be interesting to hear what they sound like using ARC! I guess I’ll have to do another sound measurement on those?

[Stan_Halen]

I didn’t have to add anything to WinAmp but the wrapper

OK, I tried it out and wrestled a little bit, but got it working nicely. I had to dig around in the Preference window to figure out the plugins, both DSP (VST) and Output, but once it worked it is really cool! Since Winamp is 32-bit I used the 32-bit version of ARC with it. I can use it on either my studio monitors or my 2:1 system by switching the output. It’s kind of like this Holy Grail of difference in hearing things with ARC. And with this Winamp setup I can get used to listening to records I know from way back. That should help too.

[Danny_Danzi]

So glad it worked for you. I have the same krk 6’s as you and an old set of first generation 8’s that I bought 10-15 years ago.

[JayGee]

Wow, that looks really complicated

That’s why I like it.