The best thing of all about this plugin is that it has surround components so that you can mix a surround project with headphones.
WAVES NX DEMO PLUS
You can adjust how wide apart you want the speakers and you can rotate them from 0–90 degrees apart, plus rotate them 360 degrees around your head placement. Then next to the Room Ambience parameter you have the speaker position where you can choose where to place your speakers. So depending on how big you want your virtual room, this can be easily adjusted. There’s the room ambience section where you can increase the room size by imposing more virtual room reflections. But try it out, maybe you won’t mind the phasing so much. So I actually preferred to switch the head tracking feature off even though it is impressive.
But it did create some weird phasing issues on the sound when moving around. I found that it was cool using this head tracking feature, especially when you move your head around like 30–60 degrees and hear more coming out the one speaker than the other because your ear is perceived to be closer to that speaker. It creates a virtual sweet spot for you, and if you move around too much, you can easily reset this sweet spot to get the optimum mixing position in this virtual room. This is where this plugin shines-it uses Waves new advanced NX technology to replicate the sound of an actual room when you’re wearing your headphones. And because of this, what most often happens is that you over compensate on the mix elements like panning tracks too wide or applying too much reverb. This results in a sort of warped sense of the stereo image of the music you’re listening to on headphones. So what’s missing from headphones when you use them to mix is the natural depth of a room, and the natural reflections that occur. What NX does is it creates a virtual mix room for you when you’re using headphones. It works great, but there’s something extra that I really like with this plugin. So when I saw that Waves had released the NX plugin for mixing with headphones, I had to try it out. I know it’s not ideal, and I'd rather use studio monitors when possible, but I work a lot with headphones (to produce music when the baby sleeps, etc.), so anything that can improve this gets tested in my books.
WAVES NX DEMO FREE
Basically, when my headphones are calibrated, I'll be able to hear my audio as if it was in a totally flat, well soundproofed studio, free from all colouration such as room echo and object reverberations, so its in a similar ballpark to NX, without waves business model tripping me up.I’m constantly on the lookout for great tools to use for production when using headphones.
They make a speaker calibration system, but also a headphones calibration system, which is a VST. One is IK multimedias ARC2 system, and the other one, which i'm more interested in, is Sonarworks. I havent tried the NX, but when I posted over at Gearslutz about a bass resonance problem I was having due to room accoustics, the users there put me onto 2 products that look very interesting. Maybe, because I use FL studio, I've gotten used to their very generous "free updates for life" policy, and I wish other companies would have a similar approach to their existing customer base. I've bought waves renaissance bass, NS-1 suppressor, kramer pye compressor, and a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head, but I got an email from waves the other day basically saying that my subscription was about to end, and I would no longer be entitled to plugin updates, and I think that sucks, so I'll no longer buy any waves plugins. I've been thinking about buying some similar software, but after buying a few waves plugins, I've decided I don't like their business model as its very cut-throat. 2ndMOUSE : Sat 13th Feb 2016 : 5 years ago
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