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CLA Nx Black Friday pricing drops this Waves headphone mixing plugin by 79%, to $29.99, with the deal running until Nov 26, 2026.
CLA Nx puts the acoustics of Chris Lord-Alge's Mix LA studio into your headphones. It uses Waves Nx spatial imaging technology to do it, so a headphone mix can be judged much like a room mix.
The maker's pitch is simple: headphone mixing used to be a poor stand-in for a tuned room with serious monitors, and this plugin is meant to close that gap.
It recreates the Mix LA room and corrects the unrealistic stereo imaging that headphones produce. You can adjust how much studio ambience reaches your ears.
A personalized head anatomy calibration tunes the response to you. The maker says this helps you judge depth, balance, stereo imaging and reverb more accurately.
The plugin also ships with EQ correction curves for over 270 headphone models. That covers the frequency side of the problem, while the Nx processing handles the spatial side.
The goal is headphone mixes that translate to speakers. Because everyone hears the same virtual room, the maker also pitches it for collaboration.
On Mac, CLA Nx runs on macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15, in VST, AU and AAX formats.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later and comes as VST and AAX.
If you track and mix on cans, this is a utility plugin that sits on your monitoring chain, so you can check a mix in the box without leaving your headphones.
Yes. The CLA Nx Black Friday deal takes 79% off, bringing this Waves plugin to $29.99. The offer ends Nov 26, 2026, so that date is the cutoff if you want the lower price.
CLA Nx is a Waves utility plugin that recreates the acoustics of Chris Lord-Alge's Mix LA studio in your headphones, using Waves Nx spatial imaging. It also corrects headphone stereo imaging so you can judge a mix more accurately.
It includes EQ correction curves for over 270 headphone models. A personalized head anatomy calibration tunes the response further, and optional head tracking works through a webcam or the separately bought Nx Head Tracker.
On Mac it comes as VST, AU and AAX for macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15. On PC it comes as VST and AAX for Windows 10 or later.
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