- Dramatically improves your mixing accuracy
- Works with any monitor system in any room
- Installs in minutes in any studio or space
- Sonically invisible, audiophile performance
- Emulates top monitors and playback systems
- Customize your monitors’ performance to taste
Improves mixing accuracy
Your room has a big impact on how you hear your music. The size, shape, materials and furniture all work to distort the frequency and stereo balance of your monitors, degrading your sound.
ARC 4’s all-new algorithm analyzes and corrects these issues in minutes. Your music snaps into focus, with more controlled low-end, tighter transients and pinpoint stereo imaging. It’s like an instant upgrade to your monitors.
And when you trust what you hear, you’ll mix faster and more confidently than ever.
An all-new listening experience
ARC 4 stores the correction profile and loads it into the ARC Studio processor, sitting invisibly between your interface and monitors to apply to all incoming signals. The standalone processor corrects studio monitors in any studio, including hardware- and console-based setups.
Audiophile performance
ARC Studio features a 120 dB(A) analog input to analog output dynamic range, 0.5 Hz to 40 kHz frequency response and ultra-stable clocking for vanishing low jitter, offering total sonic transparency and a level of accuracy you only find in mastering-grade audio converters.
The AD and DA conversion in the ARC Studio is the result of long research, experimentation, measurements and listening tests that led to the selection of the AKM Velvet Sound™ converters. They are simply the best sounding ones among all the high-end solutions we tested. Learn More.
ARC Studio connects to your studio and monitors via balanced XLRs with power-safe relay-based hard bypass – so when bypassed you’re protected from sudden power-related pops. Between the premium audio quality and ARC Studio’s all-new correction algorithm, you’ll enjoy the most natural, transparent monitoring ever.
Affordably priced
ARC Studio hardware is not only designed and made in Italy to the highest precision and quality standards, but its clever engineering makes it available at a fraction of the cost of other hardware solutions.
Now everyone can dramatically improve the sound in their mixing environments: from a single pair of monitors to multiple monitoring systems, up to large facilities with multiple mixing and recording rooms.
Improves any studio
For pro studios, whether in-the-box or console-based, ARC Studio allows for a sonically transparent correction and custom-tuning for any monitoring setup from nearfields to mains, preserving the inherent system’s sonic quality.
For DAW-based studios, ARC Studio frees you from the hassle of inserting plug-ins on the master bus of your work and preserves zero-latency monitoring setups, plus it allows you to listen to your preferred streaming service with acoustically corrected monitoring without messing around with system drivers.
You can create a profile for every configuration, listening position or even monitor pair. Whether you’re in a makeshift studio or a world-class one, fine-tuning your monitoring to your taste has never been easier and has never sounded so good.
The ARC of success
With updateable firmware, ARC Studio offers a future-proof solution that you can rely on for years to come, as your studio grows and evolves.
For Every Studio
- Compact digital room correction processor
- High End audio conversion
- Full-range correction for any kind of audio production
- Zero latency for real-time monitoring in any setup
- Improves even untreated or makeshift spaces
- Ideal for all studios, from in-the-box to console-based
Faster Workflow
- Includes ARC measurement mic and software
- Generate correction profiles in just minutes
- Switch sweet spots for clients, collaborators
- Test mixes thru virtual monitor profiles
- Emulate common “real-world” playback systems
Performance and Features
- Premium AD and DA conversion, total sonic transparency
- 120 dB dynamic range, ultra-low THD and jitter
- Natural or linear phase correction
- Set upper/lower frequency correction limits
- Up to 9 target curves to fine tune the in-room response
Specs
ARC Studio Specifications
Audio
- AD and DA converters: AKM Velvet Sound™
- Audio conversion and internal processing sampling rate: 96 kHz
- Audio conversion resolution: 24-bit
- Internal processing resolution: 32-bit float
- Frequency Response: 2 Hz - 45.0 kHz (- 2.0 dB)
- Dynamic Range: 120 dB (A-weighted)
- THD (20-20 kHz): 0.00035%
- THD+N (1 kHz@-1dBFS): -107 dB
- Channel Crosstalk (1 kHz): -122.5 dB
- Max Phase Deviation: +7° 20Hz, +16° 22kHz
- Input Impedance (balanced): 20 kOhm
- Output Impedance (balanced): 50 Ohm
- Maximum output level: +17 dBu
Latency
- Natural Phase mode: 1.4 ms
- Linear Phase mode: 42 ms
Dimensions
- Size: 14.4cm / 5.6" x 12cm / 4.72" x 4.5cm / 1.77"
- Weight: 465g / 1,03lb
Package includes
- ARC Studio room-correction processor
- ARC Measurement Microphone (depending on the version)
- ARC Measurement Microphone Clamp (depending on the version)
- USB C-Type to USB A-Type cable (1.5 m / 4.92')
- Power Supply Unit
- Registration card
Mac® (64-bits)
- Minimal: Apple M1 or Intel® Core i5 Processor, 4 GB of RAM, macOS® 10.15 or newer (macOS 11 or newer required for Apple Silicon Processors).
- Supported Plug-in formats: Audio Units, VST 2, VST 3, AAX.
- Works with any audio interface with a phantom powered XLR microphone input and a pair of outputs for monitoring.
- 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz sampling rate is required for the measurement process.
- One free USB port required.
Windows® (64-bits)
- Minimal: Intel® Core i5 Processor or equivalent, 4 GB of RAM, Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer.
- Supported Plug-in formats: VST 2, VST 3, AAX.
- Works with any audio interface with ASIO drivers, a phantom powered XLR microphone input and a pair of outputs for monitoring.
- 44.1kHz or 48kHz sampling rate is required for the measurement process.
- One free USB port required.
Requires an OpenGL 2 compatible graphics adapter.
