![]() So we are stuck with wherever room we fit all of our music gear into, sacrificing our ability to hear audio clearly. Or maybe you live in an apartment and can’t put acoustic treatment on the walls or just don’t have the money or time to acoustically treat your room. So the acoustics can be way off and fixing these issues after the fact is challenging if you want an ideal listening environment to mix or master your music. So more often than not, the dimensions are wrong and not ideal for making music. They are great! BUT, they are designed to be a home, not a studio. I’ll start by saying that there is nothing wrong with a home studio. I walk you through ALL the features of this new plugin and give you my recommendations to get you started making better music!įinally, I compare the Waves CLA Nx plugin to ALL OTHER Nx products including Ocean Way Nashville, Abbey Road Studios 3, and the original Nx Virtual Mixing Environment. ✔ How the CLA Nx plugin can solve these problems ✔ WHY mixing on headphones causes us to make dumb decisions ✔ Why making music in a home studio is so challenging This plugin is an exact acoustic replication of CLA’s famous LA studio and brings that sound into any pair of headphones. If you want to just skip all the text and watch a video review, just click here. This article dives DEEP into the new CLA Nx plugin and WHY you need it if you want to mix and master music on headphones. If you do end up going with the VSX's, please report back with your thoughts!!□Check out the NEW CLA Nx Plugin Here: bit.ly/3f3cowH But I also usually bounce around all of them fairly quickly just to get a feel for how things sound on a wide variety of systems. Personally I find the Archon Amphion mains (oddly, this sounds the most like my actual mix room, which has nowhere near that league of speaker), the Tesla, the SUV, the club, Slate's mono Auratone, and the Apple earbuds to be the most useful. They do recommend you spend at least an hour listening to some reference mixes to help acclimate yourself to the software.Įventually, you'll find what VSX environments work best for you. The software can be a little shocking/offputting at first, but once you get used to it, it will 'click' in terms of what it's trying to achieve. Regardless, if this applies to you then it's something you'll need to keep in mind. I guess the one upside to this approach is that I don't have to worry about shutting off the plugin before I print mixes. not exactly the smoothest workflow, but probably not something that applies people who are working fully ITB or have more DAC/ADC routing options. If there's something VSX tells me I need to fix, I have to go back to the mix, make my changes there, and reprint it again before I can pump it through VSX to revalidate. ![]() So my solution is just to mix as I would without it, then fly my mixes back into the DAW for final 'loudness limiting' and validate my mixes with VSX there. Now getting into what I alluded to upstream, I run my mixes through a mastering DAC/ADC that has limited channels and also feeds analog outboard, and I've not yet figured out how to route the VSX plugin 'post hardware' while mixing. So IMO, the $500 for some extra piece of mind and validation was money well spent. But what I learned from VSX is that my mixes were overall pretty good, and mostly just needed a little extra help around the margins (minor width and high end adjustments). Despite a decent amount of treatment my room is no where near optimal, so I was expecting VSX to reveal huge gaping flaws in my mixes. prior to getting VSXs I was really paranoid about my mix environment. I like them so much that for any kind of critical listening I've pretty much kicked my Beyerdynamics to the curb in favor if the VSXs.Īnother thing that surprised me. The build quality is a bit 'plasticy' feeling for a $500 set of headphones, but the isolation is incredible and they're pretty darn flat to my ear with excellent low end extension. What I'm really happy with and was totally not expecting, was how much I really like the headphones. And I'm not even sure I'd want to mix with it engaged vs. The software is really cool and I do find it useful, but I'm only able to use it as a final check after printing my mixes (more on this later). I'm really happy with VSX, but not quite in the way I was expecting though. I have not used Ocean Waves but I do own Slate VSX.
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