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Let’s not forget Studio 3 has substantial credits of its own. Illustrious names such as Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Amy Winehouse and Kanye West have recorded and mixed there. We sat behind the famous SSL 9000J console and ran several A/B tests between the room and the new Waves plug-in. The results were impressive, and most certainly a great deal of fun, however, we were left curious how practical it is for making music. This question is harder than you might imagine. The Abbey Road Studio 3 plug-in is a headphone only monitoring tool that processes audio from your DAW to recreate the listening position experience in the control room of Studio 3. The concept is designed to give the user three choices ‘near’, ‘mid’ and ‘far’ which are modelled on measurements taken with the three most frequently used monitors: a pair of ATC SCM25 ‘near’, B&W 800D speakers ‘mid’ and the Quested Q412 system ‘far’. It’s worth noting how incredible the sweet spot sounds in person. Studio 3 lived up to its reputation and its this position, the optimum mixing position of the engineer in the control room, that Waves have tried to capture as a monitoring tool for your DAW. They certainly had their work cut out and the result is impressive if a little perplexing.

Unfortunately, Abbey Road Studio 3 won’t work as a monitoring reference from the back or outside the room. You can’t just walk around to check the mix from afar. It’s just the sweet spot position that has been replicated.

The plug-in does come with a headtracker (just as the original Nx did) and when worn, if you move your head side to side, the listening experience will change to reflect the change in the monitor direction relative to your position.

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The on-screen “head” (as seen in the below image) moves with the tracker and you can turn a full 360˚ should you wish. If you lose the tracker, you can also use the camera built into your computer. It will hold.This is a pertinent question and Attack would almost always stop short of suggesting you need anything.

Sonarworks vs waves nx mod#

I did it where the paper towels & felt are behind the foam so you can’t tell the mod was done… But if you want to try in a more easy way - just cut the discs to be slightly larger than the hole in your pads, and push the paper towels and felt in. I don’t even use headphone correction much anymore ever since doing this mod. The result is incredible – I get the classic sound of the DT-990s but the treble spike is reduced. I tried his exact materials and they were a little bit too thick due to the shelf liner, so I did the mod with two sheets of Bounty paper towel (4 plies total) and 1 layer of felt.

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I believe you have to log in to see the photos: Bill-P's Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro modding diary (including sibilance elimination) | Headphone Reviews and Discussion. I’m not sure about your headphones, but if you find the treble to be “too much” there is an acoustic mod which can fix that! The tracker is practically realtime with your head movements and I’ve actually forgotten I’m wearing headphones before! Ocean Way with tracking is amazing.įinally – regarding your headphones… I use Beyerdynamic DT-990 Pro 250 Ohms. The webcam is easier and faster to set up although it has a slight lag. Have you tried Ocean Way with a webcam or the tracker? If you like Ocean Way I definitely recommend trying that! You don’t want Ocean Way to convert a headphone simulation into a “room”! So definitely put Sonarworks AFTER Ocean Way! Remember, Ocean Way is simulating a room based on the source frequencies and Sonarworks is simulating a headphone response. I recommend using Sonarworks AFTER Ocean Way. If you’re using Sonarworks be sure to turn off the headphone correction in Ocean Way. Never use both headphone corrections together, obviously. For various reasons there is no actual absolute “correct” in spite of Sonarworks’s marketing material, so it’s more about whichever you prefer and then getting familiar with that tonal balance. Hello! I’m a big fan of NX Ocean Way and I have Sonarworks as well.Īs far as whether to use NX’s headphone correct or Sonarworks’s – that’s up to you as to which works best for your needs.