For many audio professionals, listening with headphones is a necessary evil. Maybe you need headphones when you're tracking? Maybe you need to work away from your studio? Or maybe your studio has a neighbor who simply can't enjoy your creative production at 3 a.m.? Listening through headphones creates an unnatural sound that is quite different from how we listen to music through speakers.
Re-Head creates a mixing room experience when using headphones, even when recording distorted guitars and other instruments that tend to sound unnatural right in your face in a headphone mix.
At its core is a head response model that mimics the effect of your own skull on your hearing when listening through speakers. Add to that stereo processing to avoid the common panning sound in headphones, a spectrum analyzer, and an equalizer. There's even an impulse response representation of your favorite mixing room so you can feel at home, even when you're not.
Re-Head won't replace your favorite studio monitors, for sure. But it will make the transition from speakers to headphones less dramatic.
Features
- "Head response" model: achieve a more natural tone when working with headphones.
- Adjust the position and angle between the virtual speakers.
- Adjust the brightness.
- Built-in equalizer and spectrum analyzer.
- Impulse response (IR) loader to mimic your listening room and compensate for real headphones.
- Flip the left and right channels.
- Zero latency.
Blue Cat audio standards
- Available in most plugin formats for Mac and Windows.
- Full automation and MIDI control support, MIDI Learn.
- No CPU load when idle: processing shuts down when fed silence (optimal CPU usage).
- Customizable user interface with transparency and zoom.
- Smooth Bypass: silent activation/deactivation of plugins.
- Undo/redo.
- Built-in preset manager with all features.
- Copy/paste plugin state between instances.
- Supports any sample rate.
System requirements
Windows
- An SSE2-compatible processor (Pentium 4 or later).
- Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8, or 10.
- Any VST/AAX-compatible host software (32/64-bit).
Mac
- An Intel processor.
- macOS 10.7 or later.
- Any VST / Audio Unit (32 / 64-bit) / AAX-compatible application.
