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What is Virtual Reference Monitoring?
Developed by Focusrite, VRM (Virtual Reference Monitoring) is a loudspeaker & room simulator designed for headphone listening.
The problem
Accurate mixing has until now required expensive monitors and a carefully designed and treated control room. Currently, both professional music
producers facing budgetary limitations, plus project music makers without access to such facilities, frequently encounter mixing and “auditioning”
difficulties.
The solution
VRM allows you to choose from ten pairs of industry standard nearfield and main monitors in an acoustically treated space.
Engineers routinely assess their mixes by burning CDs and taking them into untreated rooms to reference on consumer stereos. VRM eliminates this
process by simulating two extra rooms; a large living room and a smaller bedroom. You can choose between a range of speakers including quality
hi-fi, computer, cheap stereo and television speakers. As with the control room simulation, you can observe the effects of typical room modes on your
mixes.
The method
VRM uses standard headphones to reproduce the direct sound, together with a digital signal processing system that is used to simulate specific
monitoring scenarios. The room models of VRM are mathematical simulations of real rooms, which provide greater flexibility in the possible
combinations of loudspeakers and listening positions. The loudspeaker simulations are created using convolutions of impulse responses measured
using the original loudspeakers. The accuracy of these simulations in different environments is taken care of by the impulse responses themselves
and the way they are calculated and manipulated.
VRM technical data
Room Model
Available Speaker Emulations
Professional Studio
Japanese White Classic
KRK RP6 G2
Auratone 5C
US Passive Nearfield
British Studio
Genelec 1031A
KRK VXT8
ADAM S2.5A
Rogers LS3/5a
Stirling LS3/5a
Living Room
British 90s Hi-Fi
British 80s Hi-Fi
Flat-screen Television
Genelec 1031A
Stirling LS3/5a
Bedroom Studio
KRK RP6 G2
British 90s Hi-Fi
British 80s Hi-Fi
Computer Desktop
Budget Micro System
Flat-screen Television
Genelec 1031A
KRK VXT8
Stirling LS3/5a
