![]() ![]() When these things are taken into consideration, one can see why headphones used to be shunned by professional mixing and mastering engineers, aside from an occasional spot check here and there. Headphones also completely remove room acoustics from the equation, because with speakers, the sound that’s inevitably reflected off of the walls, floor and ceiling in any room will play a major role in the overall sound that’s perceived. With speakers, on the other hand, the left ear hears both the left and the right speaker and vice versa. Headphones beam each of the stereo channels directly into one single ear. During mix sessions in the control room, you’ll likely see a variety of loudspeakers and nobody wearing headphones.Ĭonsider that headphones provide the listener with a drastically different sonic experience as compared to speakers in a room. Have a look at photos or footage from any professional recording studio from the pre-digital era, and what you’ll likely see are musicians wearing closed-back headphones while recording overdubs (so the music feed wouldn’t leak out of the cans and into the microphone, which would pollute the recording). But headphones were not to be used for mixing due to the fact that mixes done on headphones tended to translate poorly to speakers. When I first started in music production over twenty years ago, the prevailing wisdom was that closed-back headphones could be used for monitoring during tracking and any type of headphones could be used for certain editing tasks. I found myself in a position where, if I wanted to work in my home studio while the baby was sleeping, headphones were my only option for monitoring. But can we rely on headphones for music production tasks like editing, mixing and even mastering? I went down this rabbit hole a few years ago when I became a new father. ![]() Cans are an attractive option for those who don’t want to disturb the neighboring apartments late at night or wake up the sleeping roommates. ![]() 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.Anyone who’s attempted to regularly produce music in a space shared with others who may not be particularly appreciative of being exposed to studio monitors blaring at 85+ dB for hours and hours on end has likely thought of using headphones as a monitoring alternative. 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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