Users inserting the plug-in on a stereo bus can monitor through the emulated soffit-mounted Ocean Way Audio HR1 main monitor system, or through the free-standing HR5 reference monitors. Ocean Way Nashville’s spacious control rooms combine unusually large ‘sweet spots,’ resulting from the rooms’ construction specs, with the Allen Sides-designed Ocean Way Audio HR1 and HR5 monitors, built for even dispersion across the room.ĭevelopment of the Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville plug-in was closely supervised and approved by Allen Sides himself, to deliver-over any set of headphones-faithful representations of the room’s finely tuned acoustics, as experienced through the Ocean Way near-field and far-field monitors. The studio’s control rooms in particular were designed to provide an accurate acoustic response that translates seamlessly to other listening conditions. Ocean Way Nashville was chosen because it is widely regarded as an audiophile sound engineer’s dream-designed from the ground up by Ocean Way founder Allen Sides to meet his vision of the ultimate recording, mixing and monitoring environment. Now, Waves has applied the same painstaking 360° acoustic image capture process to the famous Ocean Way Nashville control rooms. Innovations – Lauten Audio LS-308 Microphone The first outcome of this effort was the Waves Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin, released in 2019, which emulated the legendary UK studio’s Studio 3 control room. The next challenge was to combine the Waves Nx 3D audio algorithm with the precision-measured impulse responses of an actual high-end control room. The plug-in uses channel crosstalk, inter-aural delays (ITD), filters and gains (ILD) for each ear, early reflections and head motion tracking to construct the “virtual acoustics” of an ideal imagined room.
WAVES NX OCEAN WAY NASHVILLE PROFESSIONAL
The Nx algorithm is designed to achieve this on any headphone model, without changing the color of the user’s favorite headphones.įour years ago, Waves released its first Nx-powered pro-audio product, the well-received Nx Virtual Mix Room plug-in for professional headphone monitoring. Waves Audio has spearheaded this development with its proprietary Waves Nx technology, which restores the missing three-dimensional acoustic information provided by loudspeakers in a room. In recent years, pro-audio manufacturers have turned to spatial audio technologies to deliver truer-to-life, three-dimensional acoustic response over headphones. Decisions made over headphones, with the audio ‘injected’ directly into one’s ears, often translate unpredictably when the same mix is heard back through monitors, over real distance in a physical environment. Mix depth, precise panning, stereo image decisions, reverb amount and placement, and, in particular, low-end frequency response are all difficult to get right on headphones.
In addition, many audio pros need to mix or check their mixes on the go, while away from their own familiar monitoring environment.Īll this often makes headphone monitoring a necessity.īut headphones-no matter how good or expensive-are notoriously unreliable when it comes to critical mix decisions.
Given the monitoring conditions of an acoustically untreated or under-treated room, it is often tempting to resort to headphones during the mixing process in order to hear details which might get lost otherwise.
Producers and engineers, even at higher levels of the profession, do not always have regular access to a high-end professional mix room-a situation only exacerbated in the COVID-19 era. Mixing on headphones has become increasingly common in recent years. Oran Moked is the director of Creative Marketing at Waves Audio. Reid Shippen (shown), Ben Fowler, Dave Kalmusky, Steve Marcantonio, Shannon Sanders, Nick Brophy and Josh Ditty, were among recent attendees at Ocean Way Nashville to check out the Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville plug-in. Mixing on headphones? Waves’ new NX Ocean Way Nashville Plug-In aims to bring the 360° acoustic image of Ocean Way Nashville control rooms to your favorite ’phones.
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