![]() ![]() To really seal the deal, the CLA Nx plug-in also supports head tracking using your webcam or the Waves Nx Head Tracker Bluetooth device which you can purchase separately. Man, I want in on that! What kind of science degree do I need to go and measure boomboxes for a living?! The Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin recreates the spatial acoustics of a professional mixing and recording room right inside your headphones. ![]() This includes the acoustic response of Chris’s CLA-10 nearfield monitors, his subwoofer system, his custom-built Ocean Way farfield speakers, and even the boombox he uses for small-speaker mix checking. That is, Waves modeled how the room reacts to each of the speakers from where they are positioned in the studio. The sound is amazing and can even make cheap headphones sound better. The actual modeling part involves 360-degree impulse responses captured from each of the speaker sets inside the Mix LA control room. I purchased the Waves NX Virtual Mix Room Plug-in several weeks ago. To help bridge that gap, Waves’ NX tech does a lot of algorithmic voodoo (channel crosstalk, inter-aural delays, filters, early reflections, head motion tracking) to trick your brain into hearing 3D sound from headphones. With the Waves Nx App and the Waves Nx Head. Of course, headphones and speakers sound fundamentally different and this has to be accounted for during mixing. Waves Nx is a ground breaking audio technology that finally bridges the gap between speakers and headphones. ![]() This means it’s balanced and accurate enough to let one hear things how they are and mix without hesitation. According to Chris Lord-Alge, the room has a “what you hear is what you get” quality to it. The plug-in also provides a useful reference for mix checking. Overall the Waves NX is a great plugin to add to your music production toolkit, especially if you work with headphones a lot as I do. I'm not a fan of any 'speaker-izer' plugin for headphones, but there are others like Can Opener which do a much better job. ![]() Sounds good, but how is this going to improve your results? Well, the main point is to help headphone mixes translate better to speakers – especially in situations where your studio space is not acoustically treated, or you are away and must mix on headphones. Their whole line of Nx room virtualization plugins for headphones: Waves Nx, CLA Nx, Nx Ocean Way Nashville, Abbey Road Studio 3, Nx Germano Studios New York, etc. All these are coupled with precision measurements of the actual studios, to deliver a three-dimensional representation of the original acoustic experiences.CLA Nx models the acoustic response of Chris’s mix room inside any set of headphones suitable for production work. Waves Nx uses channel crosstalk, inter-aural delays (ITD), filters (ILD), early reflections, and head motion tracking to replicate the immersive experience of hearing audio in the real world. Waves Nx uses channel crosstalk, inter-aural delays (ITD), filters (ILD), early reflections, and head motion tracking to replicate the immersive experience of hearing audio in the real world. Trusted by tens of thousands of producers and mixing engineers, all Nx plugins are powered by Waves’ pioneering Nx technology for immersive spatial audio. Get reliable perspective as you cross-check your mixes in trustworthy acoustic reference environments, expertly tuned to ensure that your work translates properly to all systems,” the announcement states.Įach Nx plugin comes with several monitoring systems from the original studios, emulating the acoustic response of studio classics including NS10s, high-end Ocean Way and Exigy monitors, and more-for a total of 4 studios and 12 stereo and surround monitoring systems.Īll Nx plugins are powered by Waves’ Nx technology for immersive spatial audio. “Now you can make your best decisions about balance, stereo image and panning, mix depth, low-end response, reverb usage and more. to New York to Nashville, the Waves Nx Virtual Studio Collection brings together precision acoustic models of multiple world-class studios like Ocean Way Nashville, Chris Lord-Alge’s Mix LA, Germano Studios New York (originally The Hit Factory), and the original Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room. This plugin bundle is designed to give users virtual access to the acoustics and monitoring systems of world-famous mixing rooms, on any pair of stereo headphones.įrom L.A. Waves Audio, a leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, is now shipping the Waves Nx Virtual Studio Collection. ![]()
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