Does Sonarworks (actually) Work? | Start to Finish Home Studio Room Correction

Sonarworks SoundID is software that measures the acoustic properties of your room and corrects the problems… or at least that is what it CLAIMS to do.

In this video, I put Sonarworks to the test and measure how good the room correction ACTUALLY is, and walk you through every step of the process, so you can decide if room correction is worth pursuing. Spoiler alert… IT IS!

Using software to fine tune the acoustics of our room will help your mixes translate better on many different playback systems outside of your home studio.

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00:00 – Sonarworks Home Studio Calibration [Start to Finish]
00:43 – FREE STUFF!
01:05 – What is Sonarworks SoundID?
01:56 – My Recommendation for Using Sonarworks
02:42 – Sonarworks Headphone Correction
03:21 – How to Set Up Sonarworks
04:10 – Setting Microphone Input
06:33 – Assigning Outputs and Speakers
07:20 – Preparing for Measurements with Sonarworks
08:02 – How to Measure Room Acoustics with Sonarworks
10:22 – Sonarworks Measured In Room Response
10:49 – How to Apply Sonarworks Calibration to Speakers
11:26 – Loading EQ Corrected Profile into Sonarworks SoundID
12:25 – SoundID EQ Correction Targets
13:03 – Sonarworks Latency Considerations
13:49 – Correction Filter Types – Mixed and Linear Phase
14:23 – Possible Pre-Ringing with Linear Phase Filters
16:14 – Setting Up Custom Targets In Sonarworks
18:35 – Checking Your New Profile (and my suggestions)
19:42 – SoundID Translation Check – My Recommendations
21:49 – How Well Does Sonarworks (actually) Work?
22:22 – Analyzing In Room Response
22:51 – 100 dB!
23:27 – How to Read Frequency Response Plots
24:33 – Weird Peaks in High Frequency
25:01 – Measuring Sonarworks “Flat” Target
25:56 – Overlaying Uncorrected and Sonarworks Corrected Responses
27:01 – Problems Sonarworks Didn’t Fix
27:38 – In Room Response of Custom Target Curve
28:06 – Final Thoughts and Summary
29:12 – Lots of FREE Downloads In Description!