A revolutionary room correction system in a plug-in for your DAW-based system.

Evening out room acoustics in recording environments is a breeze with the groundbreaking ARC System. In the world of music recording, the combination of monitoring audio speakers and the room's acoustics can be the biggest barrier to accuracy. Instead of hearing the music you are producing, you actually get a distorted sound created by the partial absorption of output reflected in the walls, ceilings, furniture, and surrounding objects in the recording studio. With many Digital Audio Workstation home recording situations, this has been especially troubling until the arrival of the ARC Advanced Room Correction.

IK Multimedia and sound equalization solution leader, Audyessy, have teamed up to give you the first room correction system in a plug-in form for DAW studios, the ARC System. What is it? Using Audessey's MultEQ technology, the included calibrated measurement microphone, measurement software, and multi-platform correction plug-in measures acoustical information throughout the listening area of your studio. The ARC system sniffs out the sweet spots and dead area then combines this collected information to correct both time and frequency response problems, so you'll get a clearer, more reliable representation of your musical mix. With the ARC System, the improvement in your studio sound will be fairly instant and can be adjusted when new bodies, instruments, and other objects change the acoustic properties of your recording space. Finally, you'll be able to tune your studio and trust that what you hear is what you're recording. This means faster recording schedules, more honest mixes, and better results all the way around.

IK Multimedia ARC Advanced Room Correction System Features:

ARC System includes
Easy to use, step-by-step, room measurement software for Mac/PC
VST, RTAS, AU correction plug-in for Mac/PC most popular DAWs
Professional 1/4" precision measurement condenser microphone
ARC System Measurement Software
Automatic multi-point room measurement system, wizard based, based on Audyssey MultEQ technology
Measurement precision when used with ARC System microphone: +/- 1.5 dB
Requires 48 kHz operation (only for measurements)
Requires ASIO Audio Hardware on Windows Vista or XP, CoreAudio on Mac OS X
Saves Measurements sets to be opened on the ARC System Correction Plug-In
ARC System Correction Plug-In
Multi-platform high quality frequency and time correction processor based on Audyssey MultEQ technology
Correction precision when used with ARC System microphone: +/- 1.5 dB
Correction processor resolution: 32-bits floating point
Correction processor supported sampling rates: 32 kHz to 96 kHz
Four target curves
Graphic Frequency response display

IK Multimedia ARC Advanced Room Correction System Specifications:

System Requirements
Power PC-based Macs
Minimum: 866 MHz G4 processor, 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Recommended: Dual 1.25 GHz G4 or G5 processor, 1 GB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Supported Plug-in formats: AU, VST, RTAS

Intel-based Macintosh:
Minimal: 1.5 GHz Intel Core Solo processor, 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
Recommended: 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 1 GB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.4 or later
Supported Plug-in formats: AU, VST, RTAS

Windows
Minimal: Pentium 1GHz/Athlon XP 1.33 GHz, 512 MB of RAM, Windows XP/Vista or later
Recommended: Pentium 2.4 GHz/Athlon XP 2.4 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, Windows XP/Vista or later
Supported Plug-in formats: VST, RTAS

Measurement Microphone
Type: 1/4" precision measurement condenser microphone
Polar pattern: omnidirectional, free field
Capsule frequency response: 20-16,000 Hz
Calibrated frequency response when used with ARC: 16-20,000 Hz, +/- 1.5 dB
Output: transformerless, electronically balanced, 200 ohms output impedance
Sensitivity: 50 mV/Pa
Noise Equivalent Level: 22 dB
Max SPL: 130 dB for 3% THD