Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room Plug-in Reviews

If you are unable to mix with speakers due to apartment living, or people sleeping, this is a great tool to work with... First time I used it, I dialed in my sweet spot and in a few minutes, I caught myself LOOKING at the speaker on my left, because I heard something in the mix. I had to remind myself that I was using headphones. I use it with the Beyerdynamics DT-99 Pro 250 ohm headphones that I purchased here at Sweetwater, as well. NX has a setting for this specific pair as well as many others. I like to set it up where I'm always in the sweet spot, then turn on motion and listen in other areas, as well.

Get it. Get it at Sweetwater. Contact my pal, Tyler Moore if you don't already have a salesman. You won't be sorry with this purchase.

It sure makes a difference. Can hear more detail and space.

You need to demo this to believe it. It seriously takes all the claustrophobic, stuffiness out of your headphones, spreads the sonic spectrum out in a larger area that you can make much better sense of. I also didn't realize how fatiguing headphones can be until I switched Nx on and off again. I used Audio-Technica M50's with Nx, and it's fantastic. I am sometimes forced to mix on headphones. In the past, I've tried to refrain from making any big decisions when listening on cans. The horror that strikes when you finally listen to your headphone mix on monitors, ugh. It's disheartening. With Nx, I'm not longer horrified the morning after! The first day demoing Nx on my laptop, I was able to clean up some bass guitar clarity and muddy low-end drum stuff on headphones. When I listened to that mix back in the studio... huge improvement. The short of it is, mixing on headphones is no longer something you should try to avoid. Even in the studio, I cross reference now with headphones more effectively because of Nx. I never turn Nx off either. I've learned that turning it off brings me instantly to a place of ear fatigue that's very uncomfortable. I don't regularly use the head tracking feature. It's cool, and I'll turn it on occasionally to get additional perspective, but it's definitely not a necessity to make this a useful tool. I ignored this plugin for a while assuming it was just hype and nonsense. Only a few minutes into the demo though, and I was convinced. No regrets at all on this one! Take the time to demo it for sure!

All I can say is this software makes ALL the difference in the world! My 'room' is so not conducive to mixing at all, this fixes the problem. Saved loads of $'s on room treatment!
Thank you Sweetwater and Waves!!!!!!

I have tendinitis bad, ringing ears. And, I'm also so poor if I had to pay a nickel to take a dump I'd have to throw up. I have got to write that blues song.
But! I do have head phones! This software is the answer people. So easy to get a good mix, and quick. My mentor has been in the business out west since the 60's, seen the switch from analog to digital. After buying this software I started getting "This is the best mix I've heard you do so far Dude" statements.
Don't have a room? Don't have the $'s to build one? Spend the $'s and get this, you'll be glad you did,
OH! And did I say, the gang at Sweetwater is AWESOME!

I saw this plug promoted on youtube, and didn't click through to play the vid i was originally looking for.

As a person with hearing loss in one ear, i've always had to cheat, cocking the good ear towards the source. But with headphones and LRC vintage mixing, the maracas would be absent unless i reversed the cans.

And in a milieu of amplitude and toontrack and motel rooms, i find myself working in the environment of headphones more and more often. The video head-tracking has some delay, but it beats tracking/mixing in mono or flipping the headphones. When the "IMU tracker" comes out i will certainly try it out.

Waves user since 99, and this is the one that will keep me coming back (because it is independent of the rest of my WUP). I'm not aware of its equivalent.

This Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin is a really cool idea and for the most part, works really well. I use Blue MoFi's for a headset and believe it or not, the result is really, really close to listening to the real Studio Monitors. Controls are simple... only thing I would add to this is some sort of EQ to get a perfect match to the realistically sounding spacial adjustments. I'd give it a 5 if Waves adds even a simple EQ.

I purchased the Waves NX Virtual Mix Room Plug-in several weeks ago. The sound is amazing and can even make cheap headphones sound better. Essentially, it represents a "studio quality" treated room between your ears within which to mix. How Waves does it I don't know. The camera is fascinating the way it tracks your head and adjusts the sound, but I usually just find the "sweet spot" and lock it in. The only negative aspect is that the program seems to interfere with the resources on my computer sometimes. At this point, I'm not sure whether it is the actual program or something to do with the camera. Regardless, I think it's an excellent program and hopefully a sign of things to come. Since more people these days (I think) mix in their headphones than monitors, why this type of program is just coming out I don't know. Overall, at $49.00, you can't beat it. And as usual, excellent service at Sweetwater - it's what I've come to expect!.

I use Event 20/20 monitors, and Bayerdynamic dt880 headphones, and the NX hasn't helped me much so far. In Logic X, the NX plugin window keeps popping up all the time - like every time I hit play. I can't hide it. It wants to track my head, even though I've turned that off. The sound is closer to mixing with monitors, but I still can't wait to turn my 20/20s on, and unfortunately realize that I'm way off.

Also, keep in mind that if you use two computers daily, that's one too many for Waves. The solution is "easy." Just keep moving licenses "in the cloud" between the computers, or use a USB stick. Keep doing this indefinitely, it's your time.

Waves can conduct business any way they choose, and that's fine with me, but had I known that a purchase was (for all practical purpose) bound to a single computer, I wouldn't have bothered with Waves.

If you use more then one computer on a daily basis, make sure you understand how Wave's licensing works.

The device simply won't pair with the Plug in - despite the Head Tracker pairing with the operating system (Win 10). Been on line with Waves support for two weeks without resolution.

Nice try...no cigar.