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AUDIENT ORIA MINI: ACCURATE MONITORING FOR REAL-WORLD WORSHIP SPACES | Steve Sattler
KEY FEATURES
• Hardware-based room correction system that operates in real time outside your DAW.
• Helps to ensure consistent monitoring across all sessions, playback sources, and workflows and without CPU load or plugin management.
• Improves translation so that mixes created during pre-production translate accurately to PA systems, in the sanctuary, on livestreams, and across consumer listening devices.
• Compact, rugged design that integrates easily into crowded desks and control rooms,
• True“ set it and forget it” solution.
• Includes a professional grade calibration microphone and a full license to Sonarworks SoundID reference software.
The Audient ORIA Mini is a compact, real time acoustic room correction system designed to help provide accurate, dependable monitoring through your nearfield monitors in the kinds of acoustic spaces where worship production actually happens and helps you to make your mix decisions accurately across multiple playback system.
Most worship production work takes place in bedrooms, offices, rehearsal rooms, or church tech booths. These spaces often suffer from untreated or partially treated acoustics that distort what you hear coming out of your nearfield monitors. Reflections, standing waves, and uneven frequency response can exaggerate low end, hollow out the midrange, or introduce harsh high frequencies. As a result, it’ s easy to adjust mixes to compensate for room problems rather than correct actual issues in the audio itself. The Audient ORIA
Mini is designed to address these issues by providing a more reliable monitoring reference, reducing the room’ s influence so that your mix decisions are based on what is truly happening in your audio signal path.
This accuracy has a direct effect on mix quality and translation. When monitoring cannot be trusted to accurately translate downstream to livestream or playback systems, vocals often become over-processed, bass levels become inconsistent, and compression decisions are
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