Calibrated for Elears with my Clear pads on as you described. A little weird to calibrate through a mobile app, as I usually only use desktop for audio, but giving it a shot. This may be a very short trial.Thank you They had a discount for SoundID good through today, so though I’m not fond of more subscription models, I grabbed that and just got set up.

So, assuming I have Sonarworks on when I'm actually doing next steps in mixing, I may be able to hear and detect some of the changes that I may need to put in place to bring back the sparkle. When I turn Sonarworks on, my song downgrades considerably in mix quality, and the Genesis song still sounds right. In other words, when not using Sonarworks, my song next to the Genesis song in Magic AB sounded decently in the same ballpark for mixing clarity. The Genesis song still sounds pretty great. My song sounds muddy (still listening through Magic AB). Obviously the Genesis one sounds pro and better, but they both sound pretty good side by side.

Then I turn on Magic AB and compare my song to the Genesis song. Without anything in my Reference bus on (either Magic AB or Sonarworks) my song as it's mixed presently sounds pretty sweet. When I did an AB compare between one of my songs and a well mixed song (the one I chose was Throwing It All Away from Genesis). The kicker for me was when I turned on Magic AB (which precedes Sonarworks in my Reference bus). There's a Wet/Dry control as well, so if you don't want the whole truth, you can scale it back. It was almost disconcerting, but instinctively correct (like the difference between when I've mixed something down and taken it out to a different speaker scenario and the sound wasn't the same as what I heard in the studio).

Turning on Sonarworks, and picking a couple options I was shooting for, I could tell an immediate difference. But prior to a mixdown output, I can listen to what's passing through this Reference bus (as an output from the Master bus) before it gets to my audio interface. When doing a mixdown output I turn off the Reference FX. I put it on my Reference bus, which is a bus I have after my Master bus. The interface looks nice and has several options, but these are intuitive and it's very easy to figure out how to make it work. The download was smooth, install slick and easy. So, first off, the 20 percent discount will be nice.

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