“I trialled several plugins vs the Virtual Monitoring Add-on and swiftly concluded that SoundID's offering gave the most neutral output. Most importantly, I listened to some of my favourite reference tracks and got fully engrossed in the music in a way I'd not done before with headphones. I now use it all of the time for mixing, mastering and simply listening.”
“I loved the Sonarworks virtual monitoring plugin, now I don’t have to use a separate crossover plugin in my DAW, and I can listen with crossover to YouTube!”
“I think this add on is great if you’re looking for a good way to check how your mix translates into different environments, but I think that with the Near Setting the difference to normal headphone monitoring isn’t necessarily that apparent or insightful.”
“The Virtual Monitoring Add-on is so good! The virtual monitoring environment, paired with headphone calibrations really sound like the real thing: car1 in the translation option of the software sounds like my wife’s compact, and car 3 sounds like my truck. Very useful! Those pesky low mids crowding the space making everything sound muddy can be easily pin-pointed with the aid of this translation check and things just sound clean.
Definitely would recommend this!”
“The virtual monitoring add-on is helpful in mixing. I have done one mix so far using it. I had tried some other software earlier and was a bit skeptical to begin with. I discovered that I got used to it relatively fast and more or less forgot about it and continued mixing. I noticed that the near field helped to set voice level.
The mid field sounds a bit like my monitors and the far fields was helpful for setting bass level. The result translated quite well to other listening environments so I am pretty satisfied with the add on.”
