For experienced engineers who work on the road or in different studios, this is an invaluable tool. For inexperienced users, you will start off on the right foot mixing to as neutral sounding speakers, or headphones, as possible. To be honest, I’m not certain if that was a placebo effect or not though :-)ĭespite my initial apprehension, I can honestly say that I do believe almost everyone can benefit from using the Sonarworks speaker and headphone calibration system. I didn’t notice a huge difference between that and the custom profile matched to my specific pair although the custom profile did “feel nicer”. I then tried the “average” Beyer Dynamic 770 Pro calibration profile that ships with the Reference 4 system.
Not only did the imaging become clearer and more focused, but the frequencies seemed to even out slightly as well. I really like that the difference was subtle.
What I did notice though was how the stereo imagining opened up with the Reference 4 calibration profile active. There shouldn’t be a huge difference, given that there are no room variables involved.
Happily, there was not a huge difference in the results which I think is a good thing. When listening back, I A/B’d the mix through the headphones with the calibration on and off. Unlike the speakers, I was very pleasantly surprised to hear that there was no immediate dramatic shift from the uncalibrated sound.
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