Every creator knows the moment when confidence slips. You’re working on something that feels right, but once you switch from headphones to speakers or speakers to a car stereo, everything changes. The vocal balance. The depth. The kick that felt solid now floats somewhere else.

It’s perspective. On headphones, the world shrinks inside your skull. On speakers, sound lives in space, crossing from left to right, filling the room, anchoring you in a soundstage that feels human and three-dimensional.

That space is what you trust. And when it’s gone, you start mixing from memory, not reality.

Virtual Monitoring PRO Brings Back That Reality

What if your room, the one you know and have learned by instinct, could follow you anywhere?
Virtual Monitoring PRO captures how sound moves in your space, from your own speakers to your own ears, and rebuilds that exact acoustic fingerprint in your headphones.

So when you move, the truth of what you hear moves with you. You’re not adjusting to your environment anymore. The environment adjusts to you.

Why It Matters

Virtual Monitoring PRO lets you create a precise copy of any stereo setup you have access to. It combines advanced DSP with a physical measurement process that captures how your speakers and room interact with your unique hearing.

With it, you can:

  • Capture the sound of your own studio and bring it with you anywhere.
  • Recreate your client’s or mentor’s monitoring space to hear exactly what they will.
  • Copy familiar environments like your car or living room for consistent reference listening.
  • Use your personalized profiles anywhere while traveling, working remotely, or mixing after hours.

It’s the freedom to take your sound anywhere, without losing the space and balance you trust.

How Virtual Monitoring PRO Works

Virtual Monitoring PRO captures how your speakers and room interact with your unique hearing. The result is your ultra-realistic spatial soundfield on your headphones.

Here is how the process works.

Step 1: Prepare your space

Choose the room or stereo environment you want to capture. This can be your own studio, a client’s space, or even a familiar consumer setup like your living room or car.
You will need:
• The SoundID USB binaural in-ear microphone
• A computer running macOS 11 or Windows 11
• An audio interface where speakers and headphones can be assigned to separate outputs
• Over-ear headphones for listening after the measurement

This allows you to capture your room as you normally hear it, either calibrated or uncalibrated, depending on what you prefer. A calibrated environment is not a requirement, but your personal preference.

Step 2: Set up the measurement chain

Open the Virtual Monitoring PRO measurement wizard and follow the on-screen setup steps.
Connect the in-ear binaural microphone to your computer using USB, place the microphones in your ears, and verify that the microphone signal is coming through correctly.
The software will guide you through the device routing to ensure your speakers and headphones are connected properly for measurement.

Screen recording of measurement process, including microphone setup, left-ear tap check, device routing, and the transition through each guided measurement step.

Step 3: Capture your room

Start the measurement and let the software play a series of test tones and sweeps through your speakers.
The in-ear microphones record how sound from the speakers reaches your ears, capturing your personal head-related response, the room reflections, and the stereo behavior of your setup.
This process takes about fifteen minutes. It must be done in person, inside the room or environment you want to reproduce.

Step 4: Build and refine your virtual room

Once the capture is complete, Virtual Monitoring PRO analyzes how your room and speakers interact with your hearing and creates a personalized acoustic model of that environment.
Put on your over-ear headphones and listen to the virtual version of your room.

You can make small adjustments to help ensure the virtual space matches how your real studio sounds to you.

Screen recording showing the fine-tuning stage where the user switches between speakers and headphones, listens to reference tracks, and adjusts bass and treble to match the room sound.

This step does not apply calibration to your headphones and does not create a flat headphone profile. Any over-ear headphones can be used, because the virtual space you hear is the recreation of your room.

Step 5: Apply your room anywhere

Save your profile and load it in SoundID Reference, either inside your DAW as a plugin or across your entire system through the systemwide module.

Screen recording showing the final step of saving a Virtual Monitoring PRO profile, with options to choose a profile image representing different rooms or listening environments.

Your headphones will now reproduce the spatial behavior, tonal balance, and stereo image of the room you measured.
You can work the same way you trust in your studio, even when you are traveling, working remotely, or mixing late at night.

Virtual Monitoring PRO builds your environment from your own measurements and works with any over-ear headphones, giving you a faithful reconstruction of your personal monitoring space.

Screen recording of SoundID Reference where the user selects the target mode from the preset list, loads a profile, and sees the virtual room appear inside the interface.

What Pros Are Saying

Grammy winning engineer Richard Furch sharing his experience with Virtual Monitoring PRO and describing how it lets him take his studio sound anywhere.
Mixing engineer Aaron Mattes describing how Virtual Monitoring PRO made him forget he was wearing headphones and how it improved his workflow anywhere he works.
Composer and producer Jason Soudah explaining how Virtual Monitoring PRO made headphone playback feel indistinguishable from his studio monitors.

Technical Depth for the Curious

SpecPurpose
0 ms latencyYour monitoring perspective feels natural, not processed.
44.1–192 kHz supportWorks seamlessly in any professional session.
Stereo environment Supported environment for now is stereo
Works with any over-ear headphonesKeep your tools, gain new perception.
Plugin + SystemwideSame environment in DAW or OS level audio.

Take Your Trusted Studio Sound With You

Modern production rarely happens in one place. Sessions move between rooms, laptops, countries, and time zones. Deadlines ignore acoustics, and inspiration rarely waits for the perfect monitoring setup. That is where trust in your monitoring chain becomes the single most valuable asset you have.

Virtual Monitoring PRO solves one of the most persistent problems in contemporary workflows. It gives you a stable listening reference you can rely on regardless of where you work. Instead of adapting your decisions to unfamiliar rooms or closed-in headphone imaging, you hear your mix through the spatial cues, tonal balance, and stereo perspective you know.

It is not trying to emulate a generic studio. It is recreating your monitoring environment, shaped by your room and your ears. That consistency removes guesswork and lets you make confident decisions at any stage of the process, whether you are tracking in a rented space, editing on the road, or finishing a mix long after hours.

Wherever the work takes you, Virtual Monitoring PRO gives you a sound you can trust.

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