KRK ERGO Room Correction System Shipping Soon
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KRK’s ERGO system was announced at NAMM 2008, and was expected to ship as early as April of ’08. Well, we’re closing in on NAMM 2009, and have finally received word that KRK will be shipping their room correction units as soon as this Tuesday.
The ERGO unit connects to your computer via Firewire to analyze room nodes, but operates as a stand alone box after analysis is complete (obviously given that you keep it in the same room with the same speakers). In its stand alone mode, ERGO operates as a speaker selector and volume knob, in addition to the room correction DSP it applies to the signal.
The ERGO system retails for $799, MAP is expected to be down around $599.
I’ve always been plagued by bad sound in my random makeshift bedroom studios. Being that I’m a renter, I never really wanted to invest in treating the room as properly as it should be with RealTraps and things of the like. After all, who’s to say how long I might be at any given house, or that the landlord would even let me “redecorate” with tacky fiberglass panels and bass traps in the corners? That situation has left me in an awkward place of only seriously using my bedroom studio for editing and scratch tracks, while leaving the real tracking and mixing to be done in more costly studios around town. I’m pretty anxious to see what a system like this might do in my room at home. Hideous and cumbersome acoustic treatment will always go a long way toward helping your room out, but some new tech can’t hurt either.
You can find out more about the ERGO system here. There are some good videos on that page, but they’re a bit long and in depth for me to want to just embed them here.
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This is pretty exciting. I’m interested to see how it will work with non-KRK monitors, and I’m also curious about the multitone analysis process (considering that it only uses two of those, high and low). Most analysis systems use a combination of white/pink noise and sweeping tones to feed their analyzers.
$800 certainly isn’t outrageous if it really helps correct a room, but I would certainly want to buy it from a dealer who allows returns. :-)
Kent
I watched a few of the videos What surprised me was when they were calibrating it and just kind of putting the calibration mic anywhere in the room instead of specific spots. They measure the usual mix position, but then for some of the other measuring points the guy was like, "Yeah, I’ll just point it in the corner here for another measurement." I would have thought that the system would specify placement points for optimum results.
I wonder too if anybody will try it out in a live situation to see if it helps.