![]() The plug-in does come with a headtracker (just as the original Nx did) and when worn, if you move your head side to side, the listening experience will change to reflect the change in the monitor direction relative to your position. It’s just the sweet spot position that has been replicated. You can’t just walk around to check the mix from afar. Unfortunately, Abbey Road Studio 3 won’t work as a monitoring reference from the back or outside the room. They certainly had their work cut out and the result is impressive if a little perplexing. Studio 3 lived up to its reputation and its this position, the optimum mixing position of the engineer in the control room, that Waves have tried to capture as a monitoring tool for your DAW. It’s worth noting how incredible the sweet spot sounds in person. The concept is designed to give the user three choices ‘near’, ‘mid’ and ‘far’ which are modelled on measurements taken with the three most frequently used monitors: a pair of ATC SCM25 ‘near’, B&W 800D speakers ‘mid’ and the Quested Q412 system ‘far’. The Abbey Road Studio 3 plug-in is a headphone only monitoring tool that processes audio from your DAW to recreate the listening position experience in the control room of Studio 3. This question is harder than you might imagine. ![]() The results were impressive, and most certainly a great deal of fun, however, we were left curious how practical it is for making music. We sat behind the famous SSL 9000J console and ran several A/B tests between the room and the new Waves plug-in. Illustrious names such as Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Amy Winehouse and Kanye West have recorded and mixed there. Let’s not forget Studio 3 has substantial credits of its own. The Israeli company agreed, teamed up with Giles Martin and Alan Parsons and have now attempted to recreate the listening experience. However, the team at Abbey Road believe Studio 3 to be the best control room on site and possibly the world. Studio 3 is often unfairly overlooked when compared to its big sibling Studio 2 – the room that captured the world’s imagination with The Beatles’ Abbey Road album. We were there to attend the release of Wave’s latest plug-in: Waves Abbey Road Studio 3. Keeping our shoes on, we advanced onto the over Instagrammed zebra crossing and entered the revered Abbey Road studios. Two weeks ago today, we forced our way through the large group of tourists playing make-believe John, Paul, George and Ringo. And if you can't set up a monitoring system for whatever reason, put the money aside to hire a local studio occasionally to do your final mixes - that's a great value way to get much better results.I have KRK VXT6s in a small room (10m2) and I use Sonarworks Reference 4 for calibrating the room and the speakers.Can a plug-in effectively recreate the sweet spot monitoring position of the hallowed Studio 3 at Abbey Road? For me this has, by far, been the equipment that made the biggest difference to the quality of my mixes. Personally, I would put the money towards studio monitors and acoustic treatment instead. After that it is about wants and that is an entirely personal consideration based on aesthetics, style and budget. Generalising: Once you have one good plugin for each of the main studio processor types, realistically that's enough. You don't say anything about the style you are working in, the results you want to achieve or what shortcomings you have with Waves NX.
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