Your mixes don't translate to other sound systems?
Rely on what you hear and skip endless car tests. Gain confidence monitoring your session in a world-class mix room.
Your ultimate mixing environment
Count on what you hear and
gain confidence mixing
over headphones
You have limited or no access to a mix room?
Enter your reference mix room with carefully designed acoustics, all through advanced spatial audio technology.
You don’t feel comfortable mixing with headphones?
Feel as if you’re mixing in a stellar control room. dearVR MIX turns your headphone into a reference mix room with carefully planned acoustics.
HOW TO CREATE STELLAR MIXES WITH DEARVR MIX
Place yourself in the sweet spot, anytime and anywhere
Virtual Acoustics Technology &
Spatial Headphone Compensation
By Dear Reality
It's no big secret: creating a great mix is easier in a perfect mix room. With dearVR MIX, your mixes translate reliably to any sound system, whether you're producing rock, pop, R&B, classical music, or your podcast. Relying on Dear Reality's outstanding virtual acoustics engine, dearVR MIX creates ultra-realistic environments without any drawbacks known from the physical world.
Dear Reality's Spatial Headphone Compensation technology (SHC) ensures the best binaural playback experience with the highest degree of out-of-head-localization by compensating the individual sound characteristics of different headphones.
MIXING ANYTIME AND ANYWHERE
"This is an incredible way to reference your tracks in many scenarios. dearVR MIX is quick, easy to use, and super-efficient in the studio and outside of it."
Producer, Composer, DJ
MIXING ON HEADPHONES
"Dear Reality MIX has helped me immensely with some crucial mix decisions on a trailer soundtrack –
which I had to finish on headphones because my new mixing room is under construction."
Producer
Main Features
Feel as if you’re mixing in a real mix room
Ultimate mixing environment
dearVR MIX turns your favorite studio headphones into an ultimate mixing environment, offering three carefully designed virtual reference rooms.
Choose between four loudspeakers positions and confidently know that your mix translates reliably to other sound systems and environments. Placing yourself in the sweet spot, dearVR MIX helps you to assess positions, stereo-width, reverb & low-end frequencies fast and with greater ease.
Rely on what you hear, anytime and anywhere
Spatial Headphone Compensation
Activate the built-in Headphone Compensation (SHC) and start making solid mixes with an accuracy that you won't find anywhere else. Compensating for the characteristics of individual headphone models, Dear Reality's SHC applies the optimal adjustments to support a model-independent accurate simulation of listening environments.
Dear Reality's unique technology currently supports the 55 most used professional studio headphones. Each model has been carefully optimized by the Dear Reality team.
Mix in a studio that exactly matches your style
Adaptable room acoustics
The perfect mix room is the one that feels natural and comfortable to you. With dearVR MIX, you can quickly adapt the virtual mix room to your taste using the AMBIENCE and the FOCUS parameter.
While AMBIENCE allows you to control the amount of diffusion in your virtual room, FOCUS allows you to select the perfect balance between overall coloration and localization based on the patented Clarity algorithm from Sennheiser AMBEO.
CHECK YOUR MIX IN DIFFERENT ACOUSTIC SCENARIOS
6 realistic listening environments
Stop spending hours double-checking how your mix translates into common listening scenarios. dearVR MIX puts you just a few clicks away from accurately monitoring your mix in six acoustic environments, all without leaving your workstation.
Start creating better mixes on headphones
Your free 14-day trial
Get full access to your virtual mixing environment for 14 days. No additional copy protection is needed: Just click the button below, submit the form and start mixing in your own virtual mixing room.
Key Features
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ULTIMATE MIXING ENVIRONMENT
Reference-grade mix room for stereo productions
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WORLD-CLASS MIX ROOMS
Choose from 3 ideal mix room models (Mix Room A, Mix Room B, Analytic Dry)
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SPATIAL HEADPHONE COMPENSATION
Supports 55 headphone models, find full list here
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ADJUSTABLE VIRTUAL ACOUSTICS
Easily adjust the acoustic characteristics of your virtual mixing environment using the AMBIENCE and FOCUS slider
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EASY-TO-USE
Easy-to-use graphic interface showing the selected
loudspeaker setup
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NEW: OSC HEAD TRACKING SUPPORT
Connect your OSC head-tracker to enable head tracking in dearVR MIX
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STEREO SPEAKER SETUPS
4 selectable speaker positions (Mono Input, Mono Summed, Stereo, Stereo Wide)
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COMMON LISTENING ENVIRONMENTS
Double-check your mix in 6 typical listening environments (Car, Club, Home Theater, Kitchen, Living Room, Stadium)
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REDUCED SPECTRAL COLORIZATION
Unique FOCUS parameter allows control over the amount of spectral coloration, built on the patented Clarity algorithm from Sennheiser AMBEO
REQUIREMENTS
Plugin format
VST3 / AU / AAX
Mac OS X
OS X 10.12+
Intel CPU (minimum 2 GHz recommended)
Native M1 support for AU and VST3
M1 compatible via Rosetta 2 for AAX
Windows
Windows 10 - 11
Intel-compatible CPU with SSE2 instruction set (minimum 2 GHz recommended)
DAW support
Pro Tools 2019 or higher
Most VST / VST3 / AU-compatible hosts running on a supported operating system
Supported sample rates
44.1 / 48 / 88.2 / 96 / 176.4 / 192kHz
DIVE DEEPER INTO dearVR MIX
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Plugin overview
FAQs
You don’t need any special hardware to use dearVR MIX. Simply insert dearVR MIX into your favorite AAX/VST3/AU DAW and enter your perfect virtual mix room.
In general, dearVR MIX works with any headphones brand. However, open-back headphones and in-ears with a flat frequency response work best.
The built-in Spatial Headphone Compensation technology further enhances the reliability and spatial impression, supporting a model-independent accurate listening environment simulation. You can find a list of the supported models here.
dearVR MIX offers a perfect stereo control room. dearVR MONITOR extends this concept to an idealized multi-channel control room, supporting formats 5.1 up to 7.1.2 or 9.1.6. It also includes two more control rooms and five more listening environments.
Yes, dearVR MIX offers a bypass feature that includes a level match, enabling you to adjust the volume of the plugin’s output stage to listen to the original headphone sound while keeping the Spatial Headphone Compensation simultaneously.
The Spatial Headphone Compensation currently supports 50 models. You can find a list of the supported models here. If your favorite pair of headphones are not on the list, you can submit a request to add them here.
