if you've been mixing with headphones then you probably know how big of a pain it can be
when trying to get your music to translate in real world settings lots of running back
and forth to your car or wherever it is you test your music on luckily for us waves has
plugins that can help home studio musicians and producers who are mixing with headphones like
the new waves nx ocean way nashville plugin which is what i'm looking at today
i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech so you can
unleash your creativity and i've included a link down in the description to the waves nx ocean way
nashville plugin so you can head over there check out the latest pricing and get some more
info on it if you want so this plugin allows you to monitor your mix in the acoustic space
of an ocean way nashville control room so when you're making decisions in your mix
you'll hear it as if you were sitting in one of their control rooms and this can be really good
for judging your reverbs your panning your depth and your overall stereo image so there'll be no
more surprises when you go to listen to it in your car it should translate very well and sound the
way you expect it to so i created a song using the waves nx ocean way nashville plugin for the whole
process and this is what it sounds like on and off remember this is not an effect plugin this
is just for monitoring you would take this plugin off when you do your final mix down so here it is
waves nx ocean way nashville is a super easy plugin to use you put it as the last plugin
on your mixbus or your master bus or whatever you want to call it and then listen to your mix
now you want to make your mix decisions while monitoring through this so you don't want to
turn it off make some decisions and turn it back on and listen make all of your decisions while
you're using this if your mixes sound good in here chances are they're going to sound good
in the real world too now always remember to disable it before you do your final mix down
and if you forget to a couple of times you're not alone i've done that a few times too you just have
to go through the mix down process again once you disable it so let's have a look at what's included
in this interface now so you have two sets of studio monitors you have your hr5 and hr1 here
and you can switch these on the fly so you can do a bit of a b testing to make sure it sounds good
across both sets of monitors and this helps you with your translation later on in the real world
as well now if you have the waves nx head tracker you can enable it in here and this makes things
even more realistic if you turn your head to the left it's going to sound like you've turned your
head to the left or if you turn it to the right it'll sound like you've turned it to the right
and you can even turn all the way around and it's going to sound like the speakers are in behind you
but you can also kind of control this manually with the rotate studio dial that's right here
you just click it and drag it and you can see we can look all around in the studio and i'm going to
show you right now what it's going to sound like if we were playing something back while doing that
and if you want to easily get it back to the center position you just click on this zero
degrees button right here and it puts it back to the center for you now beside that we have
the ambience control right here and this allows you to dial in a custom experience
by default it's set at 100 and gives you the exact sound of the captured irs that were taken
to create this space but if you want you can crank this up to get even more ambiance or you
can lower it to get less so if you're someone who likes to customize things
then this will allow you to do that so let's have a listen to how this changes things
so that's a pretty cool feature so you'll notice that over here we've clipped a little bit at
some point in the song and this plugin may do that it doesn't mean you're clipping in your
real world track but it could clip in this here so you can dial back the level a little
bit so you're not going to be clipping in the plugin and that's what this level knob is for
and now another cool feature is this headphone eq you can turn it on and off and you can see here
there's some popular studio headphones in here and you can choose ones that you have i have
the audio technica ath m50x so i decided to go with those really this was the first
song that i use those headphones on mixing and i'm really pleased with the outcome but
this is a nice feature here if your headphones don't show up in here you can just turn that
off and if you know your headphones already you know the frequencies that they hype then
you don't even need to worry about the headphone eq it's just sort of a added touch in there and
then if you want to get even more immersed into the ocean way nashville studio you can do this by
using the head modeling where you can measure your head circumference and your ear to ear
and you can put that in there and it will help to create even more of a realistic experience for you
and then over here you can also mute or solo the different channels left to right
and that's kind of a useful feature from time to time and you can also resize the interface so
if you want smaller you can do that you want it bigger you can have it really big on the screen
and that's the regular size right there the waves nx ocean way nashville plug-in can be
a huge time saver and a huge helper for getting your mixes to sound great
quickly and i know i really like the way that my track turned out while using it
i put it into my car i listened to it and i liked the sound of it right away there was no running
back and forth so this is a plugin that i highly recommend to home studio musicians and producers
who are mixing with headphones now if you want to check out even more waves plug-in
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon