🔴NEW WAVES CLA Nx Plugin | New Features, Comparison to ALL Nx Products, Review, Demo & Analysis
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- 💥Check out the NEW CLA Nx Plugin Here: bit.ly/3f3cowH
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Is the new Waves CLA Nx plugin worth it?
This video dives DEEP into the new CLA Nx plugin and WHY you need it if you want to mix and master music on headphones.
This plugin is an exact acoustic replication of CLA's famous LA studio and brings that sound into any pair of headphones. This video explains:
✔Why making music in a home studio is so challenging
✔WHY mixing on headphones causes us to make dumb decisions
✔How the CLA Nx plugin can solve these problems
I walk you through ALL the features of this new plugin and give you my recommendations to get you started making better music!
Finally, I compare the Waves CLA Nx plugin to ALL OTHER Nx products including Oceanway Nashville, Abbey Road Studios 3, and the original Nx Virtual Mixing Environment.
💥PLUGINS💥
🔗Waves CLA Nx: bit.ly/3f3cowH
🔗Waves Oceanway Nashville: bit.ly/3iPDyYA
🔗Waves Abbey Road Studio 3: bit.ly/3qKvoDx
🔗Waves Head Tracker + Nx Virtual Mix Environment: bit.ly/3rLVDv6
🔗Sonarworks Sound ID (headphone correction): bit.ly/3BOIuG8
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
00:27 Problem with Home Studios (and possible solution)
02:05 Download my favorite FREE plugin guide (free gift)
02:49 What this plugin does NOT do
03:17 Overview of ALL the Waves Nx Virtual Mix Environments
05:14 How To Set Up Plugin Correctly (Including Right Plugin Order With Sonarworks)
06:21 CLA Nx Plugin Feature Overview
12:43 Head Tracking Feature (Webcam and Waves Bluetooth Head Tracker)
16:34 Comparison of Waves CLA Nx to ALL Waves Nx Products (Full Mix)
17:20 Waves Nx Abbey Road Studio 3 Plugin Demo
18:04 Waves Nx Ocean Way Nashville Plugin Demo
18:54 Waves CLA Nx Plugin Demo
19:57 Can You Actually Mix Better With Waves CLA Nx Plugin?
23:25 SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND ADVICE
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💥Grab a DEMO of the NEW CLA Nx Plugin here: bit.ly/3f3cowH
I'm loving the demo. Definitely enriches my portable experience. One day trying it, plus your video are enough reasons to buy now. Thanks! Liked and subscribed.
I couldn't stand, halfway I caved and subbed... you drive a hard bargain :)
Seriously awesome video, very well put together. Objective and super super helpful. Really appreciate it
20:43 This part got me, it's ordered with the tracker!
I've been watching all your videos on studio simulations, I've always been tempted to take the plunge but never did. I use an M50X with sonarworks, and with all your comparisons, this CLA version really made me take the plunge, and I have to say thank you for your content, it really helps!
I wish you a great life and career ! 🙏
You really do a fantastic job on every level of your presentations. The technical knowledge is detailed and accurate - and very well explained - and your charisma is extremely positive.
You really are an amazing musician and I've learned a lot of things from you that improved my mixes quality,thank you very much for incredible videos like this one,good luck!
Awesome video, man! I’ve been trying to go easy on buying new plugins lately but your videos keep making me drool over new Waves plugs, haha
Hahaha I feel you there. This is something I've been trying to solve for a long time and it's much more economical than some other virtual room plugin options I've explored (and it sounds pretty insane!) 🙂 Cheers man!
Just got the Waves CLA Nx plugin on sale a few days ago. Game changer for getting to that "mixing" finish line quicker with better reference confidence. Good review and explanations.
HOLY MOLY! I just bought the plugin. Astounding! Thanks for your excellent, detailed, and thorough review. So very helpful. I was like your wife, I thought the music was coming out of the speakers. I even took my headphones off to check! LOL.
I had a couple lols and a good time on this one man, great work!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🙂
SOLD !!! GREAT INFO BOBBY
Been really impressed with the Nx stuff, keen to see what this adds to the mix!!
My favorite so far! Thanks for watching 🤘
Fuckin hell, man. You sold me so hard on this plug-in. I bought it before the video finished. Along with the Bluetooth tracker. Annnnnd I subscribed to your channel. Rock on!
Lol! It really makes listening to music fun. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do 😃 cheers!
I only wish they would make a “disable head tracking option” for those who don’t want to use that feature. So annoying to get that pop up window every time you load the plug-in.
Or that it would just open when you click the settings button in the plugin 🙂
Great news! I reached out to waves and they added this feature to this and all future Nx plugins! Teamwork baby 🤘
@@RaytownProductions Excellent!
Just got this yesterday on black Friday for 27.99. I love it. I will not be using the head-tracking but am excited about the 3 monitoring options. If it's good enough for Chris Lord Alge, it's good enough for me. A no sub setting for the CLA's would have been nice, but the sub makes them more accurate so I'm good.
Comprehensive! Thank you!
Haha thanks so much. It's almost like a headphone mixing masterclass 😂
Earned a sub
knew you'd have a video on this one. nice one
😂😂
bro you got me sold im about to buy this today!!
It's pretty cool man. And when it's on sale for $30, you can't really beat it.
I was using Nx Ocean Way Nashville since release, it was great for heaphone mixing and also headphone playing tube amp + reactive load to DAW. The new CLA Nx sound better to me, it is killer, great mids and ambience! Already bought license after trying demo version :-)
I 100% agree with everything you said haha! My exact thoughts as well.
for me the Ocean Way is the best nx
When I use the boom box setting, I just turn my head about 45° to the left and it centers the sound, just from behind.
Also as a Studio One user, I put this on my Listen Bus, post fader. This gives me the most natural sound possible, and is in a place where if I export my mix this doesn't get rendered with it even if I forget to bypass it.
Thank you so much for the in-depth video. I’ve been a devotee to the Abby road studio 3 but after watching this I tried the cla nx must say I’m very impressed. I do edm I find Abby road studio is very bass heavy even on the near fields but cla is more balanced the bass region, do you agree?
Also sometimes I get a phasing sound in Abby road especially on the largest speakers but doesn’t seem this way in cla studio. Is that something you found as well?
Keep up the vids great work!
Yep everything you said is exactly how I feel as well. 🙂
How is the impulse response of the Oceanway NX in the HR5?
Nice video! For Reaper users... if the Monitor FX button is not already showing on the top right corner of the window, just go to the View menu and click on Monitoring FX. Then, just put this kind of plugin there and you won't need to worry about turning them off when rendering/exporting the songs. But, you should turn it off if you get back to listening on your monitors.
I have the first Nx plugin and i like to use it when mixing on headphones. I don't really use the headtracking feature, but it works great and it's really fun (I use it with my laptop's camera).
Bobby.. do you have Sonarworks too? Do you think its better than the headphone EQ from the Nx plugins?
I use sonarworks correction over the built in eq (i have the beyerdynamic 880 pros - which waves had an eq curve for).
For me personally, the sonarworks sounded more "right". But the waves one did a good job of fixing any of the major flaws but sounded more faithful to the original headphones compared to sonarworks which made them especially flat. Hope that helps Rodrigo! Thanks for the awesome Reaper insight! Cheers bro!
@@RaytownProductions ... cool, man! I have Sonarworks too and the video had already helped a lot by confirming that it should be put after Waves Nx on the plugin chain. Cheers bro!
What's a good Room Ambiance setting for 5.1 movie watching in a living room?
Completely up to your taste! For me I liked it a little drier (60-70%).
I'm not sure if NX cla supports 5.1. I think you might need Nx abbey road studio for that! Be sure to double check that!
What about the CPU load? Sorry if you already covered in the video.
Doesn't seem bad at all. No noticable change to my cpu usage. Great question!
What is the best way to use these kinds of room simulators? Set it and forget it or turn it on and off during the mix?
I would keep it ON during the mix. Don't switch back and forth. You want it to help inform your mixing decisions. Also, be absolutely sure to REFERENCE songs THROUGH this plugin to help re-calibrate your ears for what great mixes sounds like when listened this way.
@@RaytownProductions Thanks man! 👏🏼
How does this make it any easier than the Nashville Ocean Way plugin?? Sounds any better??
I think this and ocean way are the best two out there right now for Waves. CLA felt a little bit better to me and based on the impulse response I've extracted from the plugin, the CLA Nx IS smoother (frequency wise) compared to ocean way. But I think the differences is something that you can easily get used to if you use it enough.
I'd say grab a demo of it and see what you think! Thanks for the comment Corey!
have you tried slate vsx? if so how does it compare to the waves stuff?
I haven't because it's been hard to get. But I think the results would be similar. The nice thing with this system is it supports lots of headphone models that are already out there so you don't have to buy additional gear and can pick this up for almost 15X less than the VSX. In this case I don't think having more rooms like in VSX is necessarily better. It's more of a distraction. I can't imagine intimately knowing how 10 plus different rooms and speaker systems sound. But having the choice of just two plus the boombox feature I think keeps you focused during mixing or mastering. Hope that makes sense and gives you some perspective. Thanks for watching man!
Yooo! I use VSX as a daily driver. I'd say they're close but for me to compare I'd have to really dive in deep with the software vs listening to this video in the short time I have. Off the bat, the emulation does feel pretty good on the NX so far, and I like the extra features for turning around/head tracking etc, definitely would feel less static in the headphones. I do this the vsx felt a little more direct and clear imo which could be a few different things being that one is through youtube, and one a file on my computer, I feel there could definitely be some flaws in how I've chose to test them but I think for now my choice is VSX, but for 29 bucks.. its worth a damn shot haha.
@@pratherbby thanks so much for sharing that Isaiah! I've also been very very curious about how the VSX compares. Cheers!
@@pratherbby great info, thanks! I didn't even realize the waves one was that cheap
Hello, I'm a cubase user and when I put the plugin in monitor it doesn't work. Whatever I do, moving my head, change the monitor, nothing happen as if it was deactivated. When I add it on the track it works instantly...
Weird! Reach out to their support, they are great 🙂
@@RaytownProductions yes thanks!
Compared to Abby road? I do films and the I produce my own music for films. For reference
I personally like this one better than AR. This and ocean way Nashville are my favorites. AR sounds a little phasey to me whereas this and ocean way Nashville have an ambience knob that let's you dial in the amount of room you want. I find that to be a very helpful feature. I have another review comparing Abbey road vs oceanway Nashville vs the original NX plugin : th-cam.com/video/sy4S8kfILAs/w-d-xo.html
Hope you find that helpful!
hey mate, thx for your work. at 6:00 you said, put the nx before the sonarworks. is this legit? cuz everyone i talked to, said sonarworks should be first, then the nx plugin. and for me this sounds very logical. your headphones have a own frequency response, sonarworks have a fixed layout for your headphones, to make them flat (there is no a.i that scans your FR and build one to flatten them, its a fixed one) but when you put nx you change the frequency response of your "headphones", so then the fixed profile of sonarworks, doesnt fit correctly anymore to your headphones. im 100% sure, that you should have sonarworks before nx.
This is correct. In most cases it won't matter (they are linear processes). But in the case that you use a custom sonarworks correction with different left and right profiles, waves nx can actually "break" this correction according to sonarworks. So they recommend putting sonarworks after. Sounds crazy but mathematically it works out 🤘
@@RaytownProductions i understand, thank you ray.
They've just released like a thousand headphone profiles for these plugins.
They did finally! This plug-in is now so much more accessible to others. Very excited for waves 🙂
How can I download and install them? I see that my headphones (Sennheiser HD 280 Pro) are not currently in the CLA nx list.
No other channel has this comparison so it would have been great if you used more than one audio sample. This song is way too dense.
Too bad you can't use plugins with windows
all u need to do is mix using pink noise- stop complaining
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upload yur pink noise mix !
It is always disappointing when you open up a video on audio engineering and they are suppose to give you some advice but their video sounds like crap, ear piercing in higher mid region in most cases.