The plugin provides faithful representations of the control room's finely tuned acoustics as experienced by the Allen Sides Ocean Way Audio HR1 and HR5 far and near field monitors. With the Nx Ocean Way Nashville, you can create better mixes, anywhere, anytime, using your favorite reference headphones. Mixes monitored in headphones via the Nx Ocean Way Nashville plug-in are more likely to be accurately translated to multiple audio systems and platforms - without the problems that often plague mixes created in headphones. Supervised and tuned by himself Allen Sides, the Nx Ocean Way plugin recreates studio acoustics and famous HR1 / HR5 monitors in immersive spatial audio in any headset.
Ocean Way Nashville's studio control rooms are the pinnacle of acoustic design and studio monitoring - an audiophile sound engineer's dream. Designed from the ground up by Ocean Way founder Allen Sides, the studios were carefully planned and built to meet his vision of the best recording, mixing and monitoring environment. The Nx Ocean Way Nashville plugin replicates the acoustics and monitoring system of the stellar Ocean Way Nashville control rooms, on any pair of studio headphones - so you can create better mixes, anywhere, anytime. I have the tracker, too, but it’s a little fiddly sometimes to get connected… The webcam ALWAYS works and seems to require the least amount of hitting the calibrate button.To create star blends, you need a star blend environment. If you haven’t tried the head tracker yet, I think the webcam is easiest to use and most reliable.
A lot of headphone mixers tend to add too much and then it just sounds cloudy or muddy through a speaker. It reminds me to not “fill up all the space” and leave room in the music which is important. I find NX most useful during composition, especially, when using headphones. It reminds me of my Avantone Mixcubes.Īll in all this is my favorite of the bunch, but to your point I think it’s useful to test your mixes in the other “rooms” as well. Now CLA NX is, with Ocean Way being a close 2nd. Prior to CLA NX, Ocean Way was my favorite of the bunch. I have all the other NX plugins but I haven’t tried them to see if the head tracking improvement is specific to CLA NX or if it is improved globally. It just feels more like you’re in a room. While it might sound like it would be confusing on paper, in reality it’s not and you instinctively “understand” the changes without feeling like they’re wrong. For example, if you turn your head to look out the window, one ear gets a break. I hardly ever have to click “calibrate” anymore.Īre you using head tracking with NX? It’s not just a gimmick! It goes a LONG way to reducing ear fatigue because it’s varies up what goes to your ear. I’m a big fan of the NX series, but what’s blowing my mind about CLA NX is they seem to have fixed the “drift” issue. I will go back to the original NX, do some mixes and post my view on the comparisons.
Now there is a new ‘CLA’ room iteration to consider - at the moment I am not going to get another version of NX but I did wonder, and hence this post, if any others might have some views on the subject. I have a feeling the original NX does a better job of the basic objective - achieving, on headphones, mixes that are ‘out of the box’ acceptable on speakers with minimal tweaking needed… even (am I really saying this!?) no tweaking at all. Good results also, but I am wondering now if the Nashville iteration is a touch ‘flattering’ and will go back to the original generic NX to make some comparison mixes. Since then I also got the ‘Nashville’ studio room version and have been giving that some solid use for a couple of months. I got very good results, a massive improvement on any previous headphone mixes (and I’m sure we all know just how bad those can be!) I was an early adopter of the first ‘generic’ NX plugin and use it with my Sennheiser HD600s, for which NX has a specific EQ curve.
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