Waves brings users into world-famous studios with NX Virtual Studio Collection

Waves Audio has begun shipping the Waves Nx Virtual Studio Collection, a plugin bundle giving users virtual access to the acoustics and monitoring systems of world-famous mixing rooms, on any pair of stereo headphones.

The Nx Virtual Studio Collection brings together acoustic models of multiple world-class studios in order to allow engineers get perspective as they cross-check mixes in trustworthy acoustic reference environments. Each Nx plugin comes with several monitoring systems from the original studios, emulating the acoustic response of studio classics, including NS10s and high-end Ocean Way and Exigy monitors — for a total of four studios and 12 stereo and surround monitoring systems.

Nx uses channel crosstalk, interaural delays (ITD), filters (ILD), early reflections and head motion tracking to replicate the immersive experience of hearing audio in the real world. All these are coupled with precision measurements of the actual studios, to deliver a three-dimensional representation of the original acoustic experiences.