Originally Posted By: Noel96
Tyler,

Here's a public-available link to the User Guide. This may be of use to you.

http://www.waves.com/1lib/pdf/plugins/nx.pdf

The section in the guide relating to "Head Tracker", Chapter 4, is for a hardware device that can be used to help enhance the plugin's interpretation of a specific speaker(s) setup. Since I didn't purchase this to accompany the plugin, I cannot comment on it.

My impressions of the plugin so far...

It is excellent.

I've always found it a little frustrating how the the sound through my speakers and through my headphones disagreed with one another. It's not a major disagreement but it's enough to make mixing a little more challenging. If I mix to my headphones, the sound is slightly unbalanced in my speakers (and vice-versa).

When I tested the plugin, this is the process I followed...

1. I put the Nx Virtual Mix Room as the last plugin in the Master control (in Reaper) and then added settings for speaker angle and my head-size (circumference, ear-to-ear around the back of the head).

2. I then opened a song that I was happy with the way it was mixed.

3. When the song was playing and with headphones on, I toggled between active/non-active for the plugin. There was definitely a difference in sound.

4. With the plugin active, when I removed my headphones and listened to the speakers. The sound that I had been hearing in my headphones was very closely paralleled by what I was now hearing from the speakers. Was it identical? I don't know but it sounded the same. With the plugin non-active, the sound between headphones and speakers was, again, noticeably different.

Lastly, I have to say that Waves installation software called "Waves Central" made installing and activating the two plugins I bought very easy.

All in all, it's thumbs up from me!

Hopes this information helps,
Noel

Thank you Noel, for such a nice and thorough review. Because of your post I just bought it!

It is currently on sale for $39 but if you use code CK901 you can get an extra 10% off!