It does this by combining Waves Nx technology for binaural 3D audio, with impulse response measurements from the actual Abbey Road Studio 3. For a more in-depth explanation of how this works, see this article about 3D audio on headphones.
Insert the plugin on your master bus; and bypass it before you bounce your mix. Again, this plugin is primarily meant for monitoring , not for processing. The actual Abbey Road Studio 3 is a seriously good-sounding room, one of the best in the world. It was designed and acoustically treated with zero compromises, to provide the best acoustics possible for mixing. This plugin allows you to benefit from these acoustic qualities in your headphones. It is designed to help you identify problems in your mix, and to create mixes that will translate better to a wide range of other listening environments.
This is what great mixing rooms do, and this is what this plugin is designed to achieve. Abbey Road Studio 3 recreates the spatial acoustic response of a real room on headphones. Spatial acoustic response and frequency response are two different things. Spatial acoustic response is about the way that sounds spread through a given space—the time it takes for sounds to reach various locations in the room, the sustain of various sounds and various frequencies in that room, and the way in which different sounds travelling in that room build up a complete three-dimensional sonic image, or soundstage.
Frequency response is about the range of frequencies that a certain device such as your headphones can reproduce. Abbey Road Studio 3 recreates the missing spatial acoustic response of headphones. This is the main thing it does, and it does it for any headphone model. In addition, as a bonus, Abbey Road Studio 3 corrects the frequency response of a handful of popular headphone models: see the current list here.
Why is EQ correction not enough for solving headphone mixing issues? Abbey Road Studio 3 fixes the issues resulting from the lack of spatial acoustic response on headphones. It does this for any headphones. As a bonus, it also corrects EQ for some headphone models. See the previous question for a fuller explanation. Yes, it is. Abbey Road Studio 3 recreates the spatial acoustic response of a masterfully designed studio control room—over any headphones.
See the previous two questions to understand what this means exactly. This can benefit you by helping your mixes translate better to speakers, whether or not you also use EQ correction. Of course, you can use Abbey Road Studio 3 to add spatial acoustic response to your headphones, and add EQ correction on top whether using this plugin, or other software. Does Abbey Road Studio 3 work with any headphones?
This will help your headphone mixes translate better to speakers, and will give you another helpful reference for your mixes. Obviously, the better-quality your headphones, the better the overall result will be. The sustain or decay time of the low-end frequencies has a big effect on the overall sound of a mix. Unfortunately, it is generally lacking in headphones. The Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin will not add low-end frequencies that your headphones are not capable of generating in the first place.
But it will let you hear the sustain , or decay time, of your mix's low-end frequencies in an accurate way, the way they would decay in the real Studio 3 control room. This is crucial if you want your headphones mixes to translate reliably back to speakers in a room.
Did you model the transient response of the speakers at Abbey Road Studio 3? No, we did not. When using this plugin, your headphones will still have their own transient response for the most part.
What we did model is the degree impulse response of each of the speaker sets inside the Studio 3 control room. In other words, we modeled how the room reacts to each of the speakers from its position in the studio. Think about it this way: If you took one of the wall-mounted speakers from Studio 3 and put it in a random living room, how would it sound?
Probably very different, and not for the better. Abbey Road Studio 3 is powered by the same Waves Nx algorithm for spatial audio over headphones as the Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin; but it combines the Waves Nx algorithm with precision impulse response measurements from the physical Abbey Road Studio 3 control room.
Do I have to use the Abbey Road Studio 3 plugin with head tracking? The head tracking feature tracks your head movements in real time, so that when your head moves, the acoustic environment around you remains constant—including the fixed direction of sound coming from the virtual studio speakers. The Abbey Road studios in London are nothing short of legendary. The Beatles borrowed the name for their penultimate album, which also marked their final recording session and one of the most iconic album covers of all time you know, the one where they all cross the street.
In the 60s, the studio became known for its innovative recording techniques, which gave a certain signature sound to many releases of the time. Surely, not many aspiring producers can afford to record at the prestigious Abbey Road Studios, but they can add part of that signature sound to their productions with the help of a plugin called Abbey Road Chambers by Waves Audio.
This plugin allows you to add reverb and delay to your tracks by routing your audio input through virtual echo chambers designed to imitate those of the studios. You may choose between three chambers with different acoustics, change the positions of the microphones and the speaker inside the chamber, and also adjust different parameters.
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