I moved house a couple of years later so all the acoustic treatment got moved here and I later added Sonarworks which made a big imrovement too. I never really got on with it that well to be honest and a few months later went the whole hog and got some measuring software, a measurement mic and built all the acoustic treatment panels and with some help from the Gearslutz forum for this kind of thing got my space ( which is a corner of a garage ) into pretty good shape. I imagine things have moved on but about a decade ago I bought a Focusrite Pro24 DSP because it had this sort of tech built it and you could choose from several different styles of virtual monitors like NS10's - Genelecs - Adams. Whilst I don't think there's any replacement for a well treated room sometimes that's just not possible so things like this can be a big help and much better than not having anything. Caught a lot of things mostly good (and a few bad) with my mixes.Īnybody else use these plugins? I'm impressed with these. I had a real blast loading a bunch of the tracks I did this past year into my DAW and then auditioning them A/B style in Abbey Road and Ocean Way.
#ABBEY ROAD PLUGINS TRIAL BLUETOOTH#
You can also buy a little bluetooth sensor for $100 that's supposed to work better- and you can use both together for best results- though I think the camera works well enough for my needs. The tracking is slightly glitchy using the camera. The GUI looks great on both- blow it up to 200% and you feel like you're sitting in the actual studio- and you can rotate the studio around, so you can face the back wall and see what the mix sounds like with your back to the speakers and the music blasting off the back wall- kind of like hearing your music in a club. You can switch between nearfields and mains and that's a cool feature.
It's remarkable how much it changes when you switch the bypass on and off. You get that space and air that you can't get from headphones and that center imaging. The Ocean Way is newer and I thought I liked the sound of it a little better,- the Abbey Road sounds slightly darker- but after spending hours with both, I like them both equally. Several times I got this sensation of "Oh shit, this must be blasting through my monitors, my neighbors are gonna kill me!" only to lift my headphones off to hear nothing. It really does feel like I'm sitting in front of speakers. You use your computer's camera to track your head movements while wearing headphones and it creates the impression of sitting at the mixing desk of either of these studios listening on speakers- with the sound changing as you move your head, like it would in the real world. They looked interesting, though maybe somewhat gimmicky. I was thinking of getting Sonarworks or ARC to fix my listening environment- but last night I was looking at a Waves plugin sale and saw the Abbey Road Studio 3 and Ocean Way Nashville headphone mixing plugins and said "why not?". I don't like using headphones much and hopefully some day I'll have a place with a treated room and all that. I'm using a combo of monitors and headphones, with most of my decisions coming from the headphones.
Only bought my first monitors last year and my studio space at my current apartment moves between two rooms depending on my mood- so trying to do any kind of room treatment would be useless.
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