“I had in the 1970s audio as my trade. When I retired 7 years ago, I started to produce music at my home studio. Now what we were dreaming of back then it's now real with a small budjet. I work mostly with headphones to not disturb the rest of my family, so it's essential that I can rely on what I hear with my headphones. I heard of Sonarworks SoundID Reference from a home studio Facebook group and deciced to give it a try. Ordering, paying and even taking it to use went smoothly. I use it with my three PC's. To my surprise it was available also to my Android phone and tablet - and for free. I was amazed how the whole listening chanced and it effected to my mixing and mastering results dramatically. Specially I enjoyd the possibility to check how my productions would sound in different listening environment like smart phones, laptops, cars, TV sets. I recall a hint from an old sound studio engineer that he checked every song also from a C-casette recorder of his car despite his state-of-air studio monitors. I had a couple of issues, but I had surprisely quick (and friendly) answers from the Support Centre which solved my cases. They also took seriously my finding and promised to forward my development suggestion: "Your findings are correct. Currently, there is no such feature within the SoundID Reference software to adjust the volume of left and right chanels individually. I have forwarded your email as a feature request to our Product team for review. I can't promise a timeline, but it will be looked into if enough similar requests have been received." So I am very pleased in all.”
“When you're working on headphone (because it's late or because your children are having fun around you), you're sometimes in the need or mixing or mastering with guesswork room. With Sonarworks, I'm able to do both mix and mastering confident that my sound will sound nearly as good as with my monitor (nearly because it is not the same experience) and Sonarworks drastically reduce errors and trials. I'm loving it, it is now a part of my daily workflow, and I've sould have do so before!”
“My experience has been inspiring. I’ve been able to avoid so many old mixing mistakes and just overall have a much more accurate sound from the headphones I’m using. I also love the ability to reference car and phone speakers as a mixing tool.”
“My Beyerdynamic 770 Pro 250 Ohms has never sounded that good and having the software as a VST plugin so I can track my mixes is phenomenal. Youtube videos has never sounded so good as well.”
