Ready to improve every choice you make in your mixes and masters? The powerful dearVR MONITOR plugin from Dear Reality allows you to hear your music in an ideal reference-quality listening room, using your own favorite headphones.
A new level of reference - Spatial Headphone Compensation
A new feature in dearVR MONITOR and additional key factor for the high level of reliability is the Spatial Headphone Compensation. Dear Reality’s unique technology ensures an optimized mix room virtualization by taking into account the individual sound characteristics of different headphone models.
For Spatial Headphone Compensation, Dear Reality handpicked 44 well-known studio headphones models and created individual profiles to match the headphones frequency response with the applied spatial rendering. Binaural 3D audio rendering relies on specific filters, which leads to the situation that common headphones frequency responses tend to counteract this effect in some ways. With Spatial Headphone Compensation, you will get a perfect out-of-head localization and binaural rendering with an accurate frequency response, depth perception and localization for your selected headphone model. Dear Reality will continuously add support for further studio headphone models in the future.
Adaptable Sound Characteristic
Every headphone profile in dearVR MONITOR comes with two filter sets, one with a linear phase (FIR) and one with minimum latency (IIR). Both filter types are known to have their ups and downs: FIR filters do not introduce phase-shifting but create more latency and pre-ringing. On the other hand, IIR filters have little latency but raise phase-shifting around the center frequency. Also added are two shelving filters for an additional individual customization of each headphone model profile. With all these features, nothing stands in the way for you to use your studio headphones as your own perfect, customized mix room!
Mixing on any pair of Headphones
dearVR MONITOR works with ANY pair of headphones. Even if you are not using a certain Spatial Headphone Compensation profile, the plugin carefully recreates the spatial acoustic response of a masterfully designed studio control room. You get a professional monitoring reference for your mixes to better translate to speakers. However, if you do not use spatial headphone compensation, you have to take into account the individual frequency response of your headphones.
With dearVR MONITOR you mix with greater ease and fun. It’s just as simple as using the plugin itself! Check out yourself and
- get an additional reference besides your loudspeaker and experience mixing on headphones without known drawbacks of headphones.
- benefit from a professional monitoring environment – even if your real mix room is not perfectly acoustically treated
- enjoy the opportunity to mix everywhere and anytime simply by using headphones
- start mixing your tracks in immersive multi-channel audio formats without investing into additional speakers
The following headphone model profiles for frequency compensation are included:
- Sennheiser:
HD 800S
HD 660S
HD 650
HD 600
HD 560S
HD 400 PRO
HD 280 PRO
HD 25-1 II - Neumann NDH 20
- AKG:
K240 MKII
K240 Studio
K271 MKII
K371
K612
K701
K702
K712 - Audeze:
LCD-2
LCD-X - Audio Technica:
ATH-AD700x
ATH-M40x
ATH-M50x
ATH-M60x
ATH-M70x
ATH-R70x - Austrian Audio Hi-X55
- Beyerdynamic:
DT 1770 PRO
DT 1990 PRO
DT 240 PRO
DT 770 250 Ohm
DT 880 PRO 250 Ohm
DT 990 250 Ohm - Dan Clark Ether C Flow
- Focal Listen Professional
- Fostex:
T20RP MK3
T50RP MK3
T60RP - HEDD Headphone
- HIFIMAN HE400i 2020
- KOSS Pro4S
- KRK KNS 8400
- Shure:
SRH1540
SRH840
SRH940 - Sony MDR-7506
With dearVR MONITOR, you can now mix anywhere, anytime, without the need for an expensive acoustically-optimized control room. It allows you to virtually transport yourself to the perfect listening space, whether you are working in stereo, in a surround sound format like 5.1 or 7.1, or even in complex Dolby Atmos formats like 5.1.4 and 9.1.6.
Whether you’re on the road, at home, in an unfamiliar studio, or a noisy environment, dearVR MONITOR gives you all the benefits of a real reference-quality listening room, so that you can quickly and reliably evaluate the quality of your mix choices—all from the comfort of your own favorite headphones.
dearVR MONITOR is also as flexible as it is easy-to-use. You can quickly adapt its virtual listening room to suit your personal needs. Just a few simple clicks allow you to change the room model so that you can be absolutely certain your bedroom mixes will sound great in everything from a small car to a movie theater! Choose between 11 different acoustic environments including clubs, living rooms, cars, stages, cinemas, and more.
Whether you’re looking to improve the quality of your headphone mixes, or monitor complex surround sound formats without an expensive multi-channel speaker system, dearVR MONITOR can help change the way you hear your music for good.
