SONARWORKS REFERENCE 3 HEADPHONE REVIEW UPDATE
SONARWORKS REFERENCE 3 HEADPHONE REVIEW SOFTWARE

Luckily, the filter used is pretty transparent and you can choose from linear phase, mixed phase, or minimum phase, which has a lower latency so would be better for tracking. The GUI is clean and crisp, with a main window that allows you to show or hide a range of curves such as Before, After, Target Response, Correction, and Phase. The idea is that you load an instance of the plug-in on your master buss, and mix through it while youвЂ™re listening through your headphones, then bypass it when you bounce down.

ItвЂ™s quite fascinating to load up the different curves and compare the responses of different brands and models.

SONARWORKS REFERENCE 3 HEADPHONE REVIEW SOFTWARE

The company also offers a list of 24 sets by different makers bundled with the software and a specific calibration file. Sonarworks says these average calibration curves should be accurate to within +/- 3dB, but also offers a service for an additional в‚¬99 where you send your headphones off and it does specific measurements for both the left and right channels, which will increase this to +/- 0.9dB. These digital profile curves, created using a patent-pending acoustic-measurement system called PAPFR (aka Perceived Acoustic Power Frequency Response), can be chosen from a drop-down list and then used with a transparent filter to give you a totally flat frequency response.

SONARWORKS REFERENCE 3 HEADPHONE REVIEW UPDATE

Sonarworks has measured 32 sets of the most popular studio headphones, including those by AKG, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, KRK, Sennheiser, Shure, Sony and more, plus a recent update adding more exotic cans from Audeze and other manufacturers. Reference 3 is also available in room-calibration flavour, but here weвЂ™re going to be looking at the headphone-calibration plug-in, in VST, AU, AAX and RTAS formats. Often even the most expensive sets have bumps and dips at certain frequencies вЂ“ enter Reference 3 by Sonarworks. There are endless debates on whether mixing using headphones is a viable practice, and one of the main issues is that no set has a completely flat frequency response across the spectrum.

Sonarworks reference 3 headphone review