Here's an interesting concept: studio monitor modeling (Focusrite VRM)

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Josh

Are you Naren-ing, or did you just miss his point?

I missed his point.

I had just read 5 chapters of telecommunications law, then watched a two hour FCC meeting video. I'm a little burned out.

[jaxadam]

Originally Posted by Jeff

I missed his point.

I had just read 5 chapters of telecommunications law, then watched a two hour FCC meeting video. I'm a little burned out.

Excuses, excuses...

Have a martini, and let's argue about Mac vs. Windows in the "real" world.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by jaxadam

Excuses, excuses...

Have a martini, and let's argue about Mac vs. Windows in the "real" world.

I'm about to have some merlot, actually. It was a successful day; schoolwork, MacBook Pro for my wife ordered. Don't worry, I warned her already about using it for everything she currently uses Windows 7 for.

[Matt C]

YouTube - sideways Im not drinking Merlot

[eleven59]

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The reason you wouldn't want this as a plugin on your master is that you might forget to take it off before bouncing down your mix

[osiris]

Originally Posted by eleven59

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The reason you wouldn't want this as a plugin on your master is that you might forget to take it off before bouncing down your mix

Yeah, that would mean you get a room within a room if you play it on monitors/home stereo. That would be all like Inception and shit...

[Jeff]

I like what I saw in the video Kim posted, so we'll see how it goes.

[AcidWing]

Originally Posted by osiris

Yeah, that would mean you get a room within a room if you play it on monitors/home stereo. That would be all like Inception and shit...

except....Inception was awesome, so applying this concept to a mix could only make it...well...mega awesome

I see it as a win-win scenario

[AcidWing]

just found an extensive gear slutz thread on the matter. For the most part, it seems like a solid piece of equipment.

[Inazone]

Somehow, I missed this thread earlier.

I have a Saffire Pro 24 DSP with the included VRM, and it's really cool. Although I have a dedicated music room with an insulated closet for miking cabs, my actual recording PC is in the main room of my basement, which is not acoustically treated and is the TV/movie/gaming/hanging-out room as well. In other words, I often use headphones. The Saffire's built-in VRM is great in my opinion. While it is going to be most useful if your headphones have a flat response already, being able to play back your mixes in different virtual environments with the attributes of different speakers is really handy. I really wish I would've had it available when we were mixing and mastering our album, rather than burning CD-Rs to play back on boomboxes, car stereos and elsewhere. Unfortunately, I thought that it seemed a bit "ghetto" to bring my $400 interface to a studio full of high-end hardware, and didn't bother.

Anyway, at first I thought VRM looked like a gimmick when reading the Focusrite specs, but having experimented with it a bit, I'm convinced that it'd be worth $99.