This includes the acoustic response of Chris’s CLA-10 nearfield monitors, his subwoofer system, his custom-built Ocean Way farfield speakers, and even the boombox he uses for small-speaker mix checking. That is, Waves modeled how the room reacts to each of the speakers from where they are positioned in the studio. The actual modeling part involves 360-degree impulse responses captured from each of the speaker sets inside the Mix LA control room. To help bridge that gap, Waves’ NX tech does a lot of algorithmic voodoo (channel crosstalk, inter-aural delays, filters, early reflections, head motion tracking) to trick your brain into hearing 3D sound from headphones. Of course, headphones and speakers sound fundamentally different and this has to be accounted for during mixing. This means it’s balanced and accurate enough to let one hear things how they are and mix without hesitation. According to Chris Lord-Alge, the room has a “what you hear is what you get” quality to it. The plug-in also provides a useful reference for mix checking. Sounds good, but how is this going to improve your results? Well, the main point is to help headphone mixes translate better to speakers – especially in situations where your studio space is not acoustically treated, or you are away and must mix on headphones. CLA Nx models the acoustic response of Chris’s mix room inside any set of headphones suitable for production work.
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