hey what's going on out there i'm sean divine hope you all are doing well
today i have a demo and a full review of the all-new waves cla nx plug-in if you're not
familiar with nx technology this allows us to mix in virtual spaces with our headphones like this
one the legendary mix la the mixing control room from engineer chris lord alge has mixed a lot of
huge huge records in this room and they have meticulously modeled it using impulse responses
and then they've utilized some technology to give us the ability
to have all the different monitoring that chris lord alge utilizes in the studio
before we check out all the different monitoring options we have and just
hear what it's like to be in mix la through nx we need to go ahead and do a little bit
of setup and you're gonna see we have two options we can utilize a bluetooth tracker
which this is a little device that you see i've got it right here
on top of my mdr 7506 headphones but once you place that there then we can just connect that
and you can utilize any headphones and it will be able to track your your head movements and follow
along but that's not required you can also use the camera tracker on your laptop or connected to your
computer just turn that on and then it will map your face and then follow your movements that way
since my camera is off center right now i'm going to utilize the bluetooth tracking device
it's a little button up top i'll just click that and then it should connect and then we should see
our tracking data down here yep so we're good to go and then we'll go to tracking device just
select the head tracker or your camera or you can utilize both for even more accurate tracking but
then once we've done that we want to calibrate it so you'll see this button here and what we want
to do is just get in your ideal position hit calibrate as you're looking ahead and then we
should see that tracking happening real quickly i'm going to go ahead and select a headphone eq
which they've got some different models here if you see your headphones i would highly recommend
utilizing it i have the mdr 7506 they're a pretty bright headphone with this eq curve
much more useful so i'm going to turn that on i do hope that waves will add some more models you know
i use the dt770s the hd25s from sennheiser some popular headphones so hopefully this list will
continue to grow over time now the head modeling as far as the head size these are just averages if
you don't know the circumference of your head or the ear to ear measurement then just leave those
as a default but if you want the absolute most accurate modeling then you want to go ahead and
measure so i've got a little tape measure here the ear to ear just go from back left to right here
and then the circumference just go around the the biggest part of your head all the way around
so we'll just go like somewhere up here so i've learned today that i have a
slightly larger than average head final thing i'm going to do is just adjust the master level
you will notice that you're going to place cla nx as the last plug-in on your stereo
bus so you can monitor your entire mix or your master so just not to overload the stereo buss
i'm going to turn this back here and let's take a listen to the first monitoring setup
which is the cla tens the mains and then he has a 12-inch subwoofer underneath the desk
gotta thank god for that but i ain't gonna fall again
i haven't been in mix la but again i've used the ns10s for a long time i know this combo
with it sitting up on the console and it does a very similar thing with the vocals
and just the way those ns10s are gonna sound so moving over to the mains these
are some big custom ocean way monitors up here gonna give us more of a low end
response
great example there of the extension of the low end these headphones the 7506
notoriously thin don't give you a very good display of your low end and your subs but
you could hear here with the nx and putting it up on the mains the ocean way monitors
we're just getting a representation that i've never been able to get out of these headphones
and just extremely useful to be able to have that here the last monitoring option
we have here in chris's studio would be the boombox in the rear of the room
this is a great real world reference it's going to be useful for picking up on what it's going
to sound like on smaller devices like your phone a computer monitor even the car to some extent
i'm finding it extremely useful to be able to flick
quickly between these three monitoring setups
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the mains are obviously going to give you a perspective of the low end and the subs
that you're just not going to get out of your headphones otherwise the cla 10 and the sub this
is just a combo that's been trusted by legendary studios all over the world for a reason it's
a very useful mixed perspective it's also one that i've gotten used to in terms of this combo
and i don't even have my ns10 set up in my project studio obviously not able to be in a lot of the
larger mixing control rooms here of recent so having this is especially useful to me personally
just knowing this sort of sound this is a very useful reference just hearing them on the 7506
but i'd be curious to also try out some of the other models i'd love to hear this on like a
dt770 the 880 the 990 here also great headphones the hd600 you're not always going to be able to
mix or master from your preferred listening space which in my case is my project studio
i've acoustically treated this room to some extent i know it i also know these monitors because i've
mixed on them for a long time but when i don't have that luxury when i'm on my headphones
on my laptop on the plane in the coffee shop or just traveling or whatever
this is going to be an invaluable tool to have these references if you want to check it out
there's a free trial you can put it on your mix bus see how it sounds to you with your
particular headphones if you have any questions or comments you can leave them below i'd love
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