At first glance this might seem like a positive enhancement, but after listening tests and deeper examination, it’s clear that the “Virtual Mix Room” comes at the expense of accuracy and fidelity to the source. Unlike CanOpener Studio, which incorporates broad characteristics of loudspeakers for better headphone monitoring, Nx wants to simulate a 3D virtual loudspeaker experience. Which is nice when listening to music, but essential when making critical panning and spatial decisions about sound. Using crossfeed, CanOpener models the most important spectral, timbral, and intensity modifications that you’d hear in our studio. Unless, after popping on a pair of headphones, you pop CanOpener Studio on the master bus. No chance for Ringo to make it from left to right. Headphones, by contrast, are loudspeakers strapped to your ears. The waves interacted with a large obstacle (you) on the way to your right ear, meaning your right ear hears those left-speaker sounds modified in a thousand ways - changes in phase, spectrum, and intensity. So even when Ringo’s drums are coming only from the left speaker, those sound waves still make it to your right ear. In our lab, in the mixer’s chair, sounds from the left and right speakers hit both of your ears. Hearing music on headphones is a lot different from hearing music on speakers. Under the watchful gaze of a Waves technician, I put on their headphones and pressed play.įirst thought when trying out Nx? This doesn’t sound anything like the lab speakers or CanOpener Studio.
CanOpener Studio had captured the spatial characteristics of a great loudspeaker setup incredibly well.įlash forward to this January, to the 2016 NAMM Conference, where Devin and I got the chance to try out Waves’ newest plugin, Nx - Virtual Mix over Headphones. But a second thought followed the first one closely: This sounds a lot like CanOpener.
HOW TO USE WAVES NX PROFESSIONAL
In August of 2012, after months of working on CanOpener Studio, and a lifetime of listening to music mostly on headphones, I got my first opportunity to visit the lab and hear music the way Devin does, at that desk, on a pair of professional-grade speakers - a highly controlled acoustical environment, tuned for his professional tasks (mixing, mastering, algorithm-designing). Using Nx Virtual Mix Room with EQ calibration, users can now mix and monitor on headphones with greater confidence than ever, experiencing precise and reliable sound in the studio, at home, or on the road.In the Goodhertz audio lab in California, Goodhertz founder Devin Kerr does the majority of his critical listening at the mixing desk.
The following headphone models are currently supported by Nx: This provides a more transparent starting point for monitoring and mixing. This allows you to hear on headphones the same depth and panoramic stereo image you would hear from loudspeakers in a physical room, enabling you to properly judge how your headphone mixes will translate to loudspeakers.īased on precision headphone measurement data provided by the Nx plugin’s new EQ calibration curves are designed to balance out any extreme features in your headphone’s frequency response, correcting them toward a common frequency balance.
Nx Virtual Mix Room is a virtual monitoring plugin that recreates the three-dimensional acoustics of a professionally treated mix room on any set of headphones.
HOW TO USE WAVES NX UPDATE
Waves Audio announces an update to the Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin – a new headphone EQ calibration feature.Īdded in response to popular demand, this new feature allows users to select a correction EQ curve for specific popular headphone models.
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