![]() The Waves Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin emulates the exact acoustics and monitor listening experience of the Studio 3 control room to headphones – generating a binaural representation of three-dimensional sound, powered by Waves’ pioneering Nx technology. From modern classics by Radiohead, and Amy Winehouse, to contemporary mixes of the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to the latest number-one chart hits, all were recorded, mixed and perfected at Abbey Road Studio 3. This unique control room is home to music’s greatest legends. The Studio 3 control room is Abbey Road’s flagship mix room, designed by the world’s greatest acousticians to provide the ultimate music production and mixing environment. "For the first time ever, thanks to Waves’ Nx technology, the complete acoustic response of Abbey Road Studio 3, a perfect music mixing room, has been captured for immersive use on headphones," Waves states. The new Waves Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin is an ambitious step further to sell the dream of working in the actual studio complex - and something that is only possible due to Waves Nx advanced binaural encoding technology: Bringing the impeccable acoustics of the legendary Abbey Road Studio 3 Control Room to any set of headphones. I hope this plugin inspires music creators worldwide to realize their visions with more confidence than ever before.” This plugin was probably the most challenging yet and I’m extremely grateful to the Abbey Road engineers for their feedback and input, and to the talented, resilient and patient team at Waves Audio. The positive reaction from all in the room was immediate and confirmed our suspicions we had created something special and unique. Our breakthrough moment was when Giles Martin came into the Studio 3 control room with some Universal Music executives and we did a playback. Not everything worked first time and we went back to the drawing board on a few occasions. After speaking with Yoni Zlotkin (Waves Product Manager) and the Waves team at length over many months, I began to feel more confident these guys had some groundbreaking theories on how such a sensitive task could be realized. This approach has proven highly profitable for Waves, selling thousands of plug-in licenses for less than $100 US, and for Abbey Road, which gains a completely new source of revenue.Īs Mirek Stiles, Head of Audio Products at Abbey Road explains: “Abbey Road has historically been very protective of the acoustic properties of its studios for software emulations, and the Studio 3 control room is no exception. This type of collaboration enables anyone with a laptop to run emulations of the most prestigious audio-chains in his own music and mixes. If you can fool yourself like that then you know it sounds natural, alright.Waves Audio has been working with Abbey Road Studios in many plug-in projects, including to recreate many of the studio's famous vintage equipment, which was used in countless historic recordings. It just depends on what sounds natural to you.Ī good cue you have stuff set up correctly is that occasionally, for like half a second, you have to take out your headphones because you thought the sound was coming from your speakers instead. I wouldn't really call CanOpener more "accurate" than anything else, I've tried several of these plugins and IMO there's no way to tell how "accurate" Abbey Road 3 or OceanWay or CanOpener or Redline 112db or any other is, unless you sand in the exact same room with your head at the exact same spot the mic was placed when the IR they are using was taken. The extra feature NX (and others) adds is an impulse response taken from a nicely treated room that solves most of the config second guessing. There are also free alternatives like AMBEO Orbit that do this, but you have to manually set up the stereo image. Basically, what all of these plugins do is add crossfeed to simulate a less "direct" monitoring and solve some of the stereo imaging issues that headphones produce.
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