![]() ![]() When you instantiate NX, it automatically launches WavesHeadTracker, which opens in a separate window, and shows a feed from your your Webcam, with a 3D green box around your head, reminiscent of something from The Matrix. In the stereo version of NX, the GUI features a pair of speaker icons connected by a yellow line, and a top-view, 3D graphic of a human head. The NX plug-in interface is where you do most of the adjusting (except for head-tracking parameters). NX can be instantiated in mono-to-stereo, stereo, and 5.1 or 5.0 surround. The two you’re most likely to use in a DAW environment, though, are the stereo and 5.1 components. The frequency response that you get in NX is heavily impacted by your headphones, so the more accurate they are, the better. You put it on the master bus while you’re mixing, but then you bypass it before you bounce your mix. Unlike a speaker simulator like the Focusrite VRM Box, NX doesn’t try to emulate any particular types of monitors. Instead, it uses psychoacoustic technology to simulate a treated mixing room, free from acoustic anamolies the theory being that in such a pristine environment, you will be better equipped to make mixing decisions. If you’d prefer not using an external drive, but still need to switch computers occasionally, it’s quite easy to move your authorization between two machines using Waves Central. You can only authorize it on one device at at time, but it can be either your computer or an external drive (even a flash drive). You install NX just like any other Waves plug-in, using the free Waves Central installer application. Details, details The interface for the NX stereo component When I first got a demo of it at NAMM, I was sure it would cost at least $500, and was flabbergasted (in a good way) when I heard the actual price. Possibly the most mind-boggling aspect of this plug-in is that it costs just $99. Using the webcam on your computer or an optional head-tracking accessory sold by Waves (not available yet), it follows your head movements and adjusts the virtual acoustics to compensate. Monitor 7.1, 5.1 and 5.NX comes with the WavesHeadTracker application, which loads when you open the plug-in.Transparent sound that preserves your original tone.Accurately judge mix depth, balance and panning over headphones.Get the ideal acoustics of a top mix room – inside your headphones.Use Waves Nx with real-time head tracking – taking advantage of your computer’s camera or the Nx Head Tracker – and enjoy the enhanced realism of being in the Virtual Mix Room, anywhere and everywhere you go. Based on precision headphone measurement data provided by the Nx EQ curves are designed to balance out any extreme features in the frequency response, correcting them toward a common frequency balance and providing a more transparent starting point for monitoring and mixing. What you hear is your mix, exactly the way you want it to sound – only now you have a more accurate way to monitor it on headphones.įinally, Nx includes a Headphone EQ calibration feature, allowing you to select a correction EQ curve for specific headphone models. ![]() For optimal visual clarity, Nx Ambisonics features a spatial meter representing your tracks’ frequency content in every direction of the spherical 360° soundfield.īest of all, Nx does all this without coloring your sound or introducing any artifacts. Nx also includes the Nx Ambisonics component, which lets you monitor Ambisonics B-format audio for 360° and VR projects on your regular stereo headphones. Want to mix for 7.1, 5.1 or 5.0 surround on your regular stereo headphones? Nx lets you do exactly that – a revolution in surround mixing. Insert the plugin on your master buss, and hear all the elements of your mix accurately laid out in space, just as you would in the sweet spot of a great-sounding professional mix room. Nx lets you mix and monitor with greater confidence, giving you a better representation of how your headphone mixes will translate to speakers. Powered by Waves’ groundbreaking Nx technology, Nx Virtual Mix Room is a virtual monitoring plugin that delivers, on headphones, the same three-dimensional depth and panoramic stereo image you would be hearing from speakers in an acoustically treated room. Want to create great mixes but don’t have an acoustically perfect room? Need to mix on the road? This plugin recreates the acoustics of a high-end studio inside your headphones, so you can make great mixing decisions anytime, anywhere. ![]()
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