![]() Not only a nice touch sonically, but you also get to see the graphics-rich back of the studio with its outboard racks, patchbay, tape machine and so on. In surround, however, Rotate Studio shifts everything, so at 180 degrees you can face the L and R surround speakers and they’ll be reversed in your headphones. If you’re working in stereo, turning 180 degrees away from the monitors simply makes it sound like they’re behind you. Whether it’s beneficial in a mixing situation, though, is debatable, but if you’re after predictability, simply switching head tracking off is always an option.Ī further control, Rotate Studio, shifts the listener perspective horizontally through a full 360 degrees. Nx Virtual Mix Room virtualizes a 3D acoustic space, and includes correction EQ curves for 270 headphone modelsso you’ll feel like you’re mixing with speakers, in the perfect control room. ![]() Your webcam and Waves’ Head Tracker combine to make this very responsive (we achieved a frame rate of 40 upwards) and as you turn your head, the effect is both realistic and quite addictive. The main monitors sound more distant and have a bigger ‘hole’ in the centre of the stereo field, and although they deliver a bigger scale, it ultimately stands to reason that headphones won’t really ever deliver the physical impact that main monitors would.įar more sonic variation is created by the head tracking. The different monitor options do sound quite different to each other, with a nicely upfront directional sound from the nearfields and a more balanced image from the midfields. The room ambience is also fixed, although switching between each set of monitors influences things, replicating the mix room. This is different to the mathematical model approach used for Virtual Mix Room and means there’s no way to adjust speaker positions, and no forward or back head tracking. It’s also worth noting that the plugin has a specific ‘sweet spot’, captured using impulse responses. Waves doesn’t actually specify the monitors used, but Abbey Road Studio 3’s main monitors are well known to be soffit-mounted Questeds (the Q412 system), and the surround monitors are the floor-standing ‘headed’ B&W 800D, both of which match the graphics on the plugin, as you’d expect. When using the stereo version of the plugin, you get a choice of three pairs of monitors (Near, Mid and Far), while for the surround plugin, the monitors default to the midfields. What marks this plugin out from Virtual Mix Room, of course, is that it incorporates the Studio 3 control room ambience and loudspeakers. ![]() However, the Headphone EQ option conveniently includes calibration curves that help to smooth out the frequency response for a handful of preset headphone models. Nx Virtual Studio Collection is available now, with a discounted intro price of $79.99.Much like with Virtual Mix Room, Abbey Road Studio 3 lets you use any headphones you like for the process, as it’s not primarily trying to ‘correct’ them to some kind of standard. Supports head tracking for enhanced realism, via webcam or the Nx Head Tracker (purchased separately).Powered by Waves Nx immersive audio technology This is the 3rd plugin released that use Waves Nx technology to accurately recreate a virtual studio in your headphones Want an eBook with my FAVORITE FREE PLUGINS (UPDATED 2021) bit.Reliable reference for mix depth, balance, panning, reverb, low end.Includes the Nx Ocean Way Nashville, CLA Nx, Nx Germano Studios New York, and Nx Virtual Mix Room plugins.The acoustics and monitoring systems of world-renowned studios.Stellar acoustic reference for your mixes – on any headphones.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.Įach Nx plugin comes complete 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.” Now you can make your best decisions about balance, stereo image and panning, mix depth, low-end response, reverb usage and more. Put on your favorite headphones, and enter 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. “The Waves Nx Virtual Studio Collection brings together precision acoustic models of multiple world-class studios. All these are coupled with precision measurements of the actual studios, to deliver a faithful three-dimensional representation of the original acoustic experiences. 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. This plugin bundle is designed to give you virtual access to the acoustics and monitoring systems of world-famous mixing rooms, using any pair of stereo headphones. Waves Audio is now shipping the Waves Nx Virtual Studio Collection.
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