[markanini]

Pretty nice plugin, but do you after you have mixed a song with it keep the plugin activated when listening on speakers or bouncing out a mix or do you turn it off? 

Turn if off before bounce/mixdown.

 

[Syliano]

Turn if off before bounce/mixdown.

Thanks, I thought so myself but I wasn't sure haha 

 

[RudeWolf]

Turn if off before bounce/mixdown.

 
Yup! The plug-in doesn't make your mixes better, your decisions improve them!

 

[Syliano]

   
Yup! The plug-in doesn't make your mixes better, your decisions improve them!

What is the best level to set the output meter at while mixing? It's default setting is -15db which lowers the volume of the output signal a lot, but why exactly when the input signal isn't coming in hot (over 0 db)? 
I see you can't go higher than -6db when avoid clipping is on?

 

[riverlethe]

It lowers volume to prevent clipping with EQ boosts, which you should always be careful of with EQ.

 

[Syliano]

It lowers volume to prevent clipping with EQ boosts, which you should always be careful of with EQ.

Yeah but whats the benefit when nothing is clipping except a lower volume?

 

[riverlethe]

If the plugin is boosting less than 15dB, you should be able to move the slider up some.

 

[edwardsean]

This is fantastic software.
 
I've been trying to physically mod my HD800 following the Anax, Tyll route. However, as Stefanarts notes, this may not be the best strategy. I've found it too blunt a method, which dampens frequencies I want as well as those I don't. So, as with Bob Katz, I'm a believer in the surgical precision of EQs to fix the spectral issues of headphones. However, even with a bunch of professional grade EQs, I could not manually dial in the level of sophistication in the curves that Sonarworks achieves. 
 
Don't know why no one else has brought this approach to market before. Just brilliant!

 

[RudeWolf]

Hey guys!
 
Thanks for the great feedback!
 
Ask if you need anything answered!

 

[peepr]

subbing to try this out tonight...I've got HE-400S, can I use a FR graph to help calibrate this myself?
 
Or can I use my USB mic? or will a non-profiled headphone really only work if you send it in to get analyzed?

 

[dmbr]

Could someone please explain what exactly the "wet/dry" knob does?

Also, should this VST go at the beginning or end of my DSP chain?

 

[RudeWolf]

Could someone please explain what exactly the "wet/dry" knob does?

Also, should this VST go at the beginning or end of my DSP chain?

 
It changes the magnitude in which the correction is applied. And our plug-in should always be the last in any chain - think of it as a speaker crossover.

 

[Gammon2004]

I'm finding this to be a really great tool used together with Audio Hijack so that it is applied to everything coming out of the computer.  Does anyone know how to post a review of the Software on this site?  I can't seem to find a page for it that might allow me to post the review.  It doesn't technically fit in any of the categories available for Head Gear, I suppose, though it generally belongs in Computer Audio.

 

[dmbr]

Since this VST is supposed to be used at the end of the DSP chain, is there any sense in using it with Darin Fong's OOYH? It's a surround sound virtualization for headphones which uses a virtual device to implement itself, not a VST, so the effects must be last in the chain.

Put more simply, will applying a DSP like OOYH (which does affect EQ) on top of Sonarworks undo the refinements?

 

[edwardsean]

Since this VST is supposed to be used at the end of the DSP chain, is there any sense in using it with Darin Fong's OOYH? It's a surround sound virtualization for headphones which uses a virtual device to implement itself, not a VST, so the effects must be last in the chain.

Put more simply, will applying a DSP like OOYH (which does affect EQ) on top of Sonarworks undo the refinements?

I've already posted this on the OOYH thread, but Sonarworks and OOYH is a thing of beauty. You can setup OOYH at the end of the chain through AudioHijack, but in this arrangement OOYH should go at the end. It gets pretty complex, but generally gain-based DSP (compression, EQ) should precede time-based (delay and reverb) effects. OOYH can be thought of as the latter.