Hi All,
DRC is a nice idea, and could help hitting the sweet spot in a treated
room, but it is not a replacement for proper room treatment. DRC has
limited use in a studio /homestudio setup because:
1. The sweet spot is very small and focused. Ok if you do not move
your head much, and not good when doing a demo with a customer.
2. compensating for frequency response needs filtration, and any
filtration creates phase shifts. Add this to the phase shifts in
the nodes in the room and you have a lot of phasey stuff going on
in your music. It just does not sound the same as a well treated
room.
Personally I would recommend the inclusion of an application like Fons's
Aliki, which is a room analyser. It will show you your speaker and room
response, and guide you in its treatment to get a better response from
the room. If you ask any sound engineer that is worth his / her salt
they will tell you that room treatment is always the first thing you do
when setting up a studio / mixing room.
Cheers,
Quentin
Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Bob, hi Mitsch,
>
>
>> I've seen this myself but never used it.
>> Would be really nice in 64studio
>>
>
>
>> If I understand it right, DRC is something, what MacOS can't offer for
>> their professional users at all and MS Windows can only offer through
>> DirectX / Direct Show, which - I guess - is not a professional interface
>> (and therefore can't be used with their recording software).
>>
>
> Hmmm, it would have to work with ASIO to be useful to Windows pro audio
> users, but I think most DRC is aimed at home cinema.
>
> There are some studio monitor speakers that have DRC built in, but they
> are expensive. I have mixed in other people's control rooms where it
> would have been very useful :-)
>
> It's quite common in studio control rooms to have too much
> high-frequency damping (e.g. acoustic foam tiles or carpet on the walls,
> mineral tiles on the ceiling or walls) but not enough bass trapping,
> which gives you a very un-natural mix environment.
>
> I actually replaced one pair of monitors because I thought their cabinet
> design was creating a resonant peak in the bass range (one double-bass
> note was coming back much louder than the others). I bought new monitors
> but the problem was still there, because it was actually the room
> causing the resonance!
>
> There is lots of good information on manual room correction in the
> archives of http://www.soundonsound.com/ which I would strongly
> recommend reading before spending time or money on DRC. Just the
> position of the monitors in the room and where you put your mixing chair
> can make a big difference.
>
> Having said that, the DRC tools give you the opportunity to evaluate the
> success of any changes to the physical layout and materials of your mix
> room.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
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