Waves has announced two Nx Virtual Mix Room with multiple Nx Head Trackers – the Nx Virtual Mix Room plug-in + 6 Nx Head Trackers, and Nx Head Tracker 5-Pack – for recording/mixing sessions with multiple participants.

Powered by Waves’ Nx technology, Waves Nx Virtual Mix Room is a virtual monitoring plug-in that simulates the acoustics of a high-end mix room inside a set of headphones. Nx mimics the depth, reflections and stereo image created by loudspeakers in a physical room environment, to enable mixing and monitoring ‘with real-world dimension’ rather than the classical headphone experience.

The Nx plug-in has been updated to operate with up to six Nx Head Trackers at the same time. This allows as many as six musicians (or five musicians and one engineer) to hear Nx simultaneously in their headphones while recording. Alternatively, two (or more) mixing engineers can now use Nx to mix together on headphones.

Using Nx, recording engineers can provide musicians with more open headphone mixes that spreads across a perceived three-dimensional audio spectrum, as if listening to monitors in a real room. When recording vocals in particular, Nx reduces the performer’s impression of hearing an ‘inner voice’, in that it moves the sound from inside the head to the outside – thus staying true to how the singer is used to hearing and perceiving his or her voice in playback. Since vocalists are not accustomed to hearing themselves through headphones, Nx makes them feel comfortable and helps them to stay in tune.

More: www.waves.com