PES 180: Martins Popelis, Co-Founder of Sonarworks

<p>My guest is <strong><a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/martins-popelis-3594bb6/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Martins Popelis</a>,</strong> Co-Founder of <a href="https://www.sonarworks.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sonarworks</a>! Having achieved success with delivering reliable reference sound to over 30,000 music creators worldwide with Sonarworks Reference product, Martins is now a firm believer of delivering individually perfected sound to all music listeners, thus eliminating sound translation problem at its core.</p> <p>Note: I'm a proud user of Reference 4 and I also bought Sennheiser HD650 headphones from <a href= "https://www.sonarworks.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">Sonarworks</a> which included a customized calibration profile ;)</p> <p>Martins and I discussed:</p> <ul> <li>Sonarworks <a href="https://www.sonarworks.com/reference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reference 4</a> (How Reference 4 works, various ways it helps production, various use cases and equipment setups)</li> <li>Speakers, headphones and the room you're listening in effectively "EQ" the sound.</li> <li>Measurement microphones (37 measurement points)</li> <li>Re-measure after moving furniture, etc.? Yes.</li> <li>Headphone profiles - Sonarworks has calibrated hundreds of headphone makes and models to create profiles for each.</li> <li>Using <a href="https://www.sonarworks.com/reference" target= "_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reference 4</a> Systemwide vs. within your DAW</li> <li>Systemwide: Virtual instrument, ~20 ms latency</li> <li><a href="https://www.sound.id/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">Sound ID</a> - Research in consumer sound preferences. Machine learning asks user what sounds they like, then creates a profile for them.</li> <li>Audio perception</li> </ul> <p>Thanks for being a great guest, Martins!</p> <p>DID YOU KNOW........We exist for the purpose of helping you, so please comment below with any questions or remarks. We appreciate you li