New Virtual Monitoring PRO – Revolutionary Room Cloning Tech Presentation
Take the legendary sound of Hyde Street Studios home with you. Join the presentation and demo session, and meet the Sonarworks team behind the tech, including co-founder Martins Popelis, in person.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026 · 6:00–10:00pm
Hyde Street Studios, Studio A, San Francisco
Two nights before MONO Music Conference 2026
This is an invitation-only event. You will need an access code to unveil tickets.
The evening
Experience the latest innovation from Sonarworks, one their clients have been asking for. Sonarworks and MONO are taking over Studio A at Hyde Street Studios for one night with a small group of Bay Area engineers, producers and creators. Co-founder Martins Popelis opens with a short welcome and the story behind Virtual Monitoring PRO, then private demo sessions run all evening, with time to try it properly. Between demos, watch others try it or network in the next room over light bites, drinks and music.
History meets today's tools
Since it opened, Hyde Street has hosted sessions from the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, CSNY and Santana through Dead Kennedys, Tupac, Kanye West and OneRepublic. The rooms still run their original echo chambers, plate and spring reverbs, and a working tape vault. It's the right place to hear what happens when a great room can go anywhere you go.
What is Virtual Monitoring PRO?
Mix on any headphones, with a personalized spatial speaker experience. Not a preset. A portrait of your hearing. Other room simulations model a room for an average head. Virtual Monitoring PRO measures a real room through your own ears with an included binaural in-ear mic. Then it plays that room back on any over-ear headphones, so the sound seems to come from speakers in front of you, not from inside your head.
Personalized to your ears: correction built from your own hearing and ear anatomy
Any over-ear headphones: headphone models are measured individually, so you don't calibrate them yourself
Unlimited rooms: capture as many spaces as you like and switch between them mid-session
Mixes that translate: the same reliable reference in the studio, at home, or on the road
What to expect
A welcome and the story behind the tech from Sonarworks co-founder Martins Popelis
Private, hands-on demo sessions of Virtual Monitoring PRO, running all evening in the control room and live room
A chance to hear Studio A's legendary rooms, then hear them on headphones
Time to watch other demos or network with Bay Area engineers, producers and creators
Light bites and drinks
Who it's for
Mixing and mastering engineers, producers, composers and creators who work in more than one space and need their decisions to translate everywhere.
Space is limited
Registration is free and capped at 80, but the Sonarworks holds about 40 guests, so registering doesn't guarantee admission. Entry is first come, first served on the night, so arrive early. Bring your own over-ear headphones to demo on the pair you know best. Looking forward to seeing you there.