The first thing you need to do is hook it up and launch the software to begin with the measurement phase. Reference 3 comes bundled with an individually calibrated measurement microphone, which is essential to analyze your room. Keeping it simple it works this way: the software analyzes your room and then calculate its correction curve.

And that’s when Reference 3 comes into play. They will get you closer but there’s a point after which you can’t go. Our rooms have not been designed to sound good and a couple of panels won’t solve all the issues. “But, if I already have a great pair of monitors wisely placed and some acoustic treatments, my room is fine…” you may ask, right? Unfortunately not. Ok, what is this thing? In a nutshell, it’s a software meant to analyze and balance out the frequency response of your room, delivering you an accurate and reliable sound. Furthermore, adding a couple of Auralex Mopads underneath your monitors to decouple them from the desk could be a smart move.Įach thing, if taken alone, won’t make a night and day difference, but all together they sum up and will help you get a better sound out of your room to begin with, way before considering any other software solution. I also suggest you to add some acoustic treatments to your room my eBook The Recording Roadmap will get you started about that. Starting With The Right Footīefore we dive into the nitty-gritty of Reference 3, make sure you know some basics about room acoustics and all the issues we have to deal with in our home studios. This last one is something quite new in the industry and aims to correct the frequency response of some popular models of headphones, in order to make them sound more flat and accurate, delivering us a portable reference sound. Note: Sonarworks makes 2 different versions of Reference 3. There’s the “Speaker/Room Calibration” version, which is the one I’m going to talk you about today, and the “Headphone Calibration” version. The company Sonarworks has a software called Reference 3 which can help us with that. The end point is, how do you know if what you’re hearing is really true, especially if you’re a novice? When I started out, I didn’t realize how much my room was distorting what I was hearing. I kept fighting with my mixes for a long time as they didn’t translate well to other playback devices.

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