Equivalent to Waves Abbey Road Studio Headphone Mixing App ??

[MeanMrMustard]

Thinking of picking up the Waves Abbey Road Studio though I don't want to deal with the Waves WUP thing. Are there equivalent vsts that are just as good ?

[Tulihenki]

There are several options and the price points varies from 30 euros/dollars to somewhere about 500e/d.

https://www.dsoniq.com/

You can for example test realphones. They have quite often sales. Pro version is now 99 but comes down to 59 or 69 occasionally.

[cprompt]

Hornet VHS - Cheap as chips (even when it's not in a sale) and sounds great

https://www.hornetplugins.com/plugins/hornet-vhs/

[dopet]

There are several options and the price points varies from 30 euros/dollars to somewhere about 500e/d.

https://www.dsoniq.com/

You can for example test realphones. They have quite often sales. Pro version is now 99 but comes down to 59 or 69 occasionally.

I have and like Dsoniq. The upside for me is it’s a combo of headphone correction and room and speaker simulation. Lots of very neat options to tweak! . Of course one could say with all the options, you can potentially wreck the headphone correction as it is easy to have boosts and cuts as part of the room/speaker simulation.

Sonarworks makes one that’s is purely headphone correction. They offer a demo and their blog has good info on headphones (reviews, etc).

I picked up the Hornet one as well, just because I like the Dev and the products. Haven’t used it much yet, but for my Sony MDR 4506’s the hornet correction seems in the same ballpark as the sonarworks correction. The Dsoniq package has a different outcome than the other two. I don’t know if better or worse, but different.

I have the waves ones and for the Sony’s and when the headphone correction is turned on the low end is increased a ton and the highs get attenuated a lot (not uncommon for that headphone correction). I have found it hard to walk away with any real understanding of what to do to a mix after listening thru the waves rooms? It’s always possible that these tracks are too boomy and waves is doing the job.

[jamcat]

The Waves thing sounds terrible.

I made a profile of my Sennheisers myself in ARC3 and use the “High End Midfield A25” virtual mixing profile, then follow it with the Dual Pan plugin on my Master buss in Studio One to get a little stereo crossfeed.

It sounds way better than the lo-fi garbage from Waves.