This provides a better recording experience, as the musicians enjoy a more open, uncongested mix, with greater detail and clarity, and can deliver great performances more easily. With Nx, recording engineers can provide the musicians with clearer, more open headphone mixes that spread across the full three-dimensional audio spectrum, as if you were listening to monitors in a real room. Having the right headphone monitor mix is often what separates an average recording session from a great one. Alternatively, two (or more) mixing engineers can now use Nx to mix together on headphones. This allows as many as six musicians (or five musicians and one engineer) to hear Nx simultaneously in their headphones while recording. The Nx plugin has now been updated to work with up to six Nx Head Trackers at the same time. Nx lets you hear the same natural depth, natural reflections and panoramic stereo image you would be hearing from speakers in an actual room, turning your headphones into a more reliable mixing and monitoring tool by letting you hear everything with real-world dimension, rather than flat in your head. Powered by Waves’ groundbreaking Nx technology, Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room is a virtual monitoring plugin that simulates the ideal acoustics of a high-end mix room inside any set of headphones. These combos enable improved headphone monitoring during recording and mixing sessions with multiple participants. KNOXVILLE, TN, ApWaves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies, introduces two Nx combos with multiple Nx Head Trackers: the Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin + 6 Nx Head Trackers, and the Nx Head Tracker 5-Pack. With Multiple Head Trackers for Recording Sessions Otherwise, a dead simple device that does what one would expect.Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room Plugin Now Compatible For the price of the plugin, it might have been better to include that with the professional plugin so that people using the Virtual Mix plugin could directly target what it would sound like for people who use the tracker solely to enhance their listening experience. That is a costed option at an additional $9.95. The tracker does not come with the separate software for Mac and Widows to allow you to use it for general listening. It would be good if there was some mixing oriented apps that uses this available for the iphone or android. There's also a free app for android and iphone to utilize the tracker with your phone, but it's geared more towards general listening than mixing. I was afraid the head tracker would just be a gimmick, but it honestly adds a lot to the plugin. However, if you put the plugin in "Sensor Fusion Mode" (using both the webcam and the head tracker to track you in the virtual space), it eliminates this distortion. The only problem I found with the product is that if you jerk your head very quickly there is an audible crackle as the plugin adjusts to your head's new orientation. It comes with an extra fastener should the first one become broken. It was easy to setup as pairing a bluetooth device and the included strap will fit on any set of headphones. The tracking of the virtual monitor speakers seems more natural, and when you stare at a blank space in the room it seems like there really is an invisible speaker coming out of the air. It effectively deals with the latency problem doing head tracking with a webcam with the Waves Nx plugin. Thinking that it might be more useful if I tried the dedicated Nx Head Tracker with the plugin, I thought I'd drop the $49 price because it was on sale. It seemed like my head could turn faster than the plugin could adjust the audio. I got the Waves Audio Nx plugin and initially did head tracking with the built-in webcam tracking, which worked well out of the box but had definite latency problems. I've been using the Waves Audio Nx "virtual room" plugin for mixing because I currently don't have a treated space nor a set of monitors.
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