Nx Ocean Way Nashville User Guide
Nx Ocean Way Nashville User Guide Product Overview .................................................................................................................................... 3 Getting Started ........................................................................................................................................ 4 Nx Ocean Way Nashville Controls ........................................................................................................... 5 Studio Monitors Select ......
Product Overview Ocean Way Nashville is a unique place to make music. It has an unusual history and an equally unusual location. The story began when Gary Belz, who ran House of Blues Studios, teamed up with Ocean Way Hollywood owner Alan Sides to create a dream facility in Nashville. For this they needed a dream location, which they found in a gothic revivalist church dating from 1910. Belz and Sides combined their formidable experience and resources to create a facility like none other.
Getting Started Here are the essential steps for setting up Nx Ocean Way Nashville. Each step is described in detail in later chapters. 1. INSERT THE PLUGIN Insert one instance of the plugin on your master buss. Note: don’t use Nx Ocean Way Nashville on individual tracks. Before you bounce the final mix, make sure that the Ocean Way Nashville plugin is bypassed. 2. ESTABLISH THE CHARACTERISTICS OF YOUR HEADPHONE MONITORING Studio Monitors There are two loudspeaker types.
Nx Ocean Way Nashville Controls Studio Monitors Select Control rooms at Ocean Way Nashville are outfitted with two sets of studio monitors. Both are manufactured by Ocean Way Audio. Speaker Type Description HR5 A reference monitor with very wide and even horizontal dispersion. HR1 This is the flagship of the Ocean Way Audio studio monitor series. The HR1 monitors have a nearly unlimited dynamic range, ultra-low distortion, and incredibly wide dispersion.
Meters INPUT METERS The stereo input signal has a full-scale meter with an infinite-hold clip indicator. Click on the clip indicator to reset it. Each channel has mute and solo buttons at the bottom of the input meter. Range: -infinity to 0 dBFS MONITOR LEVEL AND METERS The binaural stereo headphone output is represented by a full-scale stereo meter with infinitehold clip indicators. Use the knob below the meter to control the headphone monitor level.
Rotate Studio The Rotate Studio wheel rotates the studio around your position at the mixing desk. What you see and what you hear are defined by your orientation. This is what you experience when using head tracking, except that Rotate Studio is controlled manually. Click the 0º button, or Alt+Click on the Rotate Studio wheel, to reset rotation to its default position. Ambience increases or decreases the amount of ambiance in the room, compared with the model.
Head Tracking When Head Tracking is on, the virtual room does not move. Instead, it’s you—your headphones—that changes the orientation. This is how you experience a sound in the three-dimensional world. This interaction with the studio space is vital in making critical imaging decisions. The wireframe head indicates the orientation of the engineer’s head with respect to the studio.
TRACKING DEVICE MENU Use this drop-down menu to select the device used for head tracking. Nx Ocean Way Nashville can track head movement from two sources: Camera and Nx Head Tracker. CAMERA activates computer’s camera for head tracking. If more than one camera is available, choose from the list. NX HEADTRACKER selects the Nx HeadTracker that will be used by Nx Ocean Way Nashville. Choose one HeadTracker from the list.
When you are not using the Sensor Fusion mode, you can have several instances of the Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin with a different tracking device for each instance. This will enable you to have more than one Nx listeners with individual head tracking for each in the same session. Note that each Nx Virtual Mix Room plugin needs to be routed to a separate headphone output per listener; a simple headphone split will not work for this use case.
UNITS Choose head measurement units: centimeters or inches. CIRCUMFERENCE To find your head circumference, use a measuring tape to measure the longest distance around your head: over the back of the head, around your ears, and around your eyebrows. Enter values directly by dragging up or down over the value box. Default: 55 cm / 21.6 in (average adult circumference) Range: 35 cm to 75 cm / 13.8 in to 29.
Head Measurements Presets Head modeling measurements can be saved as user presets. This makes it easy to change between mixers, for several people to participate in the mix, and to move your head tracking measurements from one system to another. Click on the arrow next to the Units panel to open the Head Modeling menu. Use this menu to save and load measurement presets. When you open or enable the plugin, the factory preset is loaded.
Selecting a Headphone EQ Curve Nx Ocean Way Nashville lets you monitor your stereo mix through headphones—with the loudspeakers and the room acoustics of this famous studio. It does not, however, affect the color of the mix. In order to create a headphone mix that reliably translates to other spaces, you may choose to modify the EQ curve of your headphones. If you are familiar with the way your headphone mixes sound elsewhere, turn off Headphone EQ.
The Head Tracking Application Waves Nx is the engine behind Ocean Way Nashville. Nx creates the space and converts stereo audio channels into a binaural headphone signal. NX HeadTracker is the Nx utility that uses camera and/or Bluetooth Head Tracker information to interpret the mix engineer’s head movements. The Nx application opens or closes automatically when you open or close the Nx Ocean Way Nashville plugin. If the application closes, head tracking will stop.
FRAME RATE INDICATOR displays the current frame rate. Higher frame rates indicate greater tracking resolution, and therefore greater tracking accuracy. TRACKING DATA value boxes display the continuously refreshed head positions captured by the camera tracking device. The Camera Tracker can follow motion on these axes: yaw, pitch, roll, x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis. Each type of motion is illustrated in the head diagrams.
Bluetooth Tracker Tab The Bluetooth Tracker tab is used to connect Nx Head Tracker devices. DEVICE LIST shows all available Nx Head Tracker devices, and indicates their status (Connected, Disconnected, Connecting, Unavailable). Up to seven Nx Head Tracker devices can be detected and connected simultaneously. CONNECT (check box) – Check or uncheck this box in order to connect or disconnect an Nx Head Tracker device that appears in the device list.
3. The device will restart and reconnect automatically with the new user-defined name. This process can take up to twenty seconds to complete. UPDATE initiates a firmware update on the selected Nx Head Tracker device. A message in red text will appear when a firmware update is available. If a firmware update is available, click Update. A dialogue box will open; follow its instructions to complete the update procedure. IDENTIFY causes a light on the selected Nx Head Tracker device to blink.
Setting Up the Nx Head Tracker CONNECTING THE NX HEAD TRACKER 1. Mount the Nx Head Tracker on top of the headphone band, with the logo facing forward. Nx Head Tracker L and R identification should have the same orientation as the L and R on your headphones. Inaccurate positioning of the Nx Head Tracker will result in inaccurate head tracking. 2. Power up the Nx Head Tracker device. Make sure your computer’s Bluetooth is on and that it supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
Troubleshooting Guide Problem Head does not move in interface – no tracking 1. 2. 3. 4. Head tracking application is not running 1. Restart head tracking through the plugin. 2. Inactivate/reactivate plugin. Low tracking rate in the head tracking app (<20 fps) (Camera) 1. 2. 3. 4. Low tracking rate in Ocean plugin interface (<20 fps) (Camera) 1. Check the tracking rate in the head tracking app. 2. Verify audio buffer size is 1024 samples or lower.
Problem Possible Solutions Nx Head Tracker loses connection and doesn’t move smoothly 1. Try using a new battery. 2. Try moving the Nx Head Tracker and the Bluetooth receiver closer together. 3. If you are using a BT-USB dongle on a desktop, connect the dongle on the front panel, or on an extension for better BT reception.
