Binaural headphones experience

Thanks for that. Could you tell me what you changed on the onboard binaural mode? It states you can change head size but I can't work out how?

If you click on the straight arrow (not the curved one), you can move your mouse forward/back or in any direction, and you will see the ring around the headphones shrink and grow in size.

There's no correct size - but stop where you like the sound best and gives you the most sense of the space feeling comfortable. Moving back and forth a while, you'll get a good idea of a sweet spot and for sure, there's no correct size for this.

Optional extra food for thought...

The one thing I'd want to add, is if you output recordings using binaural mode, remember you may not satisfy as many listeners with different head sizes If you felt the sound was too claustrophobic when you made the head size smallest, or if is sounded too strange when the largest size was used, imagine other listeners on their headphones hearing the sound of 'your selected head size' but with their own head size in reality.. your binaural mode audio which might sound perfect, for you, may sound not so perfect for many others. Also, this mode may not sound the best on speakers. I add this because, it's been brought up various times - and I think it's often a little misunderstood, or not considered. Of course, anyone can output any audio mode they like, and not worry... but if you would like to consider this, hopefully this can help if trying to output audio which more listeners might hear as sounding normal.

There was indeed enough backlash to cause a rethink at Waves, along with the expected apology, so individual plugins are still sold - but yes, it was outrageous, that only a lease plan might have been available (I'm OK with it - but very not OK about making that the only option for users who may want only a few plugins.) I'm sure plenty of plugin buyers are choosing to buy elsewhere after that, and Waves will have only a greedy decision maker to hold responsible for that. I feel for the developers who do fabulous work, none of that is their fault - so personally, I'm not boycotting, esp. since I think they really did FAaFO pretty hard.

Those solutions are for mixing and mastering in order to simulate a studio environment (I did 2 albums like that, they really help in figuring out how something might sound out of speakers so you can adjust stereo properly).

They would add some latency which I’m not sure you want while playing. 539 samples of latency at 44KHz per Waves’ site. That’s like 12ms, which isn’t desirable at all.