| Calibrated?? It is strange.. It needs a SPECIFIC specially calibrated Mic, but it doesn’t matter what Mic PreAmp you use, what cables you use, and any other part of the audio chain.. Well it just doesn’t seem right to me.
There are people out there that unlike me don’t have the money to buy the ARC system, or the money to have an acoustically good room for their PASSION. For those people piracy is a blessing, and the company doesn’t loose any money out of them simply because otherwise they could never acquire it. Some of them have found it and cared to buy a cheap measurement mic or rent a good one to fix their sound, and so they did. But in the process they discovered that the software, when combined with a different mic than the one included, tended to unnecessarily lower the higher freqs, and therefore damaging their overall sound quality.
So I checked the specs in the ARC’s manual and saw that the capsule of the Mic they include reaches only as far as 16kHz, ant that when it is combined with the software it reaches 20kHz….(!) So I assumed that when you use a mic that reaches 20kHz, the software assumes that the levels it reads are way up (since they suppositively derive from a mic that has a lowered sensitivity on them), and therefore it lowers them.
So I wanted to see what happens when you use a VERY GOOD audio chain, and tell them about my conclusions. And it seems that this is the problem and not the absence of a “specially calibrated” Mic.
That’s why. |