The waves interacted with a large obstacle (you) on the way to your right ear, meaning your right ear hears those left-speaker sounds modified in a thousand ways - changes in phase, spectrum, and intensity. So even when Ringo’s drums are coming only from the left speaker, those sound waves still make it to your right ear. In our lab, in the mixer’s chair, sounds from the left and right speakers hit both of your ears. Hearing music on headphones is a lot different from hearing music on speakers. Under the watchful gaze of a Waves technician, I put on their headphones and pressed play.įirst thought when trying out Nx? This doesn’t sound anything like the lab speakers or CanOpener Studio. CanOpener Studio had captured the spatial characteristics of a great loudspeaker setup incredibly well.įlash forward to this January, to the 2016 NAMM Conference, where Devin and I got the chance to try out Waves’ newest plugin, Nx - Virtual Mix over Headphones. But a second thought followed the first one closely: This sounds a lot like CanOpener. In August of 2012, after months of working on CanOpener Studio, and a lifetime of listening to music mostly on headphones, I got my first opportunity to visit the lab and hear music the way Devin does, at that desk, on a pair of professional-grade speakers - a highly controlled acoustical environment, tuned for his professional tasks (mixing, mastering, algorithm-designing). In the Goodhertz audio lab in California, Goodhertz founder Devin Kerr does the majority of his critical listening at the mixing desk.
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