Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville

Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville - Virtual Mix Room Plugin | Recreate the Perfect Monitoring Environment of a Legendary Studio in Your Headphones

To create great mixes, you need an excellent mixing environment. The Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville plugin revolutionizes the game for headphone mixing, accurately replicating the acoustics and monitoring system of the legendary Ocean Way Nashville studio through any pair of headphones, ensuring your mixes translate reliably to any playback system. Whether you're on the road, in a home studio, or working in a space with less-than-ideal acoustics, this plugin provides a trustworthy reference standard, ensuring your mixing decisions are foolproof.

This revolutionary virtual mix room plugin, designed and supervised by founder Allen Sides himself, brings the top-tier studio acoustics and monitoring standards of the Ocean Way Nashville control room to your digital audio workstation. It's not just a simple spatial simulation, but a deep recreation of the studio's physical properties, monitor speaker response, and the psychoacoustics of human hearing. Now, wherever you are, you can use this tool, powered by Waves Nx® immersive audio technology, to experience the monitoring environment of a world-class studio and make every mixing decision with confidence.

Key Features & Applications

World-Class Studio Acoustics, Right in Your Ears
When you have to mix on headphones, the biggest challenge is ensuring your work translates well to speakers. Nx Ocean Way provides a reliable acoustic reference by recreating the world-class mix room acoustics of Ocean Way studio in your headphones. This gives you the confidence that your mixes will sound as intended on any playback device, solving the most common "translation" problem in headphone mixing.

A Breakthrough in Immersive Modeling
Designed from the ground up by Ocean Way founder Allen Sides, the Nashville studio was built to realize his vision of the ultimate recording, mixing, and monitoring space. Supervised and fine-tuned by Allen himself, the Nx Ocean Way plugin is a breakthrough in precise immersive modeling of this exceptional acoustic environment, faithfully recreating every acoustic detail of the control room.

Check Your Mix on Ocean Way's Monitors
Even before founding Ocean Way studios, Allen Sides' monitor speakers were renowned in professional circles. Now, you can switch between two legendary monitoring systems within the plugin: the state-of-the-art HR5 near-field reference monitors, and the four-way, high-resolution, "no-holds-barred" HR1 far-field monitors. This allows you to examine the details, dynamics, and frequency balance of your mix from different perspectives.

Tailored for Your Headphones
For the highest degree of accuracy, Nx Ocean Way uses the state-of-the-art Harman Headphone Target Curve method to provide EQ correction curves for over 270 models of professional studio headphones. This includes models from dozens of major brands like Sony, Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, AKG, Audio Technica, Audeze, and Focal, ensuring the sound you hear is as close as possible to the real monitoring environment.

Head Tracking for Enhanced Realism
For the ultimate sense of realism, you can enable the head tracking feature. As you move your head, the sound's perspective and spatial sense change accordingly, just as if you were actually in the Ocean Way control room. This feature can be enabled using your computer's camera or the optional Nx Head Tracker Bluetooth device, which provides the highest tracking accuracy.

Technical Specifications (Tech Specs)

• Plugin Formats: VST, VST3, Audio Units (AU), AAX Native, AudioSuite
• Sample Rate Support: 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192 kHz
• Channel Modes: Stereo
• Latency: Very low latency, suitable for real-time monitoring and mixing
• System Requirements (Mac): macOS 10.15 Catalina or later (Apple Silicon supported), Intel Core i7 / Apple M1 or higher, 8 GB RAM
• System Requirements (Windows): Windows 10 64-bit or later, Intel Core i5 / AMD Quad-Core or higher, 8 GB RAM
• Screen Resolution: Minimum 1280x1024 / Recommended 1600x1024
• Authorization: Online authorization via Waves Central application (internet connection required)