I feel much better about my lyrics now

I haven’t appreciated this about CLA before: He might be the only ‘superstar’ mixer who *regularly* provides advice and encouragement to individuals who are complete beginners.

"Keep mixing but remember: organize first, play later." (CLA, 2022) 2:35 SONG Hero by Kurt Deimer 6:00 Mix 7:55 Guitar FX 11:00 Guitar position 11:55 LCR/Pan elements 14:00 Session organization 18:55 Vocal Chain 22:30 SOLO & Drums Tribal/Room Sound 26:25 Snare Reverb 28:40 CLA Mixhub 29:30 Dynamics/Comp 31:35 Automation philosophy 33:40 Cohesive Mix, Plugins 37:25 Mix/Master Bus 39:32 Begginer Mix 42:58 CLA MixHub workflow 49:05 CLA MixDown benefit 50:40 The final tip: organize your session

I want to watch this video but I don’t want to ever here this song again

Fabulous training here. Thanks so much. Will watch again to catch what I missed

Splendid! Thank you Waves and CLA 🙏

Awesome. Thank you CLA and Waves! 🙋🏻‍♂️

This kind of videos are magic, thank you so much for the info guys! Blessings from Spain

wooo, dropping the dime on the mix- thank you CLA and Waves for this video and insight.

This is inspiring and super useful. subbed !! so good to see workflow on a whole track in Tools and with someone at the helm who has zero doubt in his abilities. so much knowledge dropped in this one video awesome content!!!!!!

That was inspirational! Lots to take away there. Thanks guys.

Thank you so much for this. Awesome training!

Wow That is all i will ever need to know in one video. time to watch it again and again. so good best mixing video there is by far!!! cheers fellas!!

This is the best Tools workflow i have ever seen . just bought mix hub, abbey road mastering, and a few other things awesome !!! cheers guys

Chris is a BEAST wit ittttt!!!! I do the LCR thing as well... I learned a lot from this guy. I also learned not to be a afraid to push the EQ if it sounds good and not harsh... Salute Chris

I used CLA and AR TG on an album last year and they told me it sounded West Coast, as a compliment. It's all you need.

🤯😳OMG!!!!😳🤯 that mix sounds EPIC!!!!

Always a pleasure to hear Chris. Very pragmatic.

When he said "no reverb is correct, you have to eq it" that just fucked my head up and i think that is one of my main problems!

This is EPIC!!. I have to say this sounds better than the original mix! Perhaps it’s the video engagement, but I’m not so sure.. Thank you guys! 👍👍

Wonderful video, very insightful questions and very thoughtful answers LOVE IT

Always good to listen to this man since he loves good punches and we can hear that. I watched all his work and that helped me a lot with my mixes which are very good now.

I used to be an intern at that studio! Sorry for running the coffee machine while Stevie was listening to your mix CLA, my bad. - I was fired 😂

This channel view option in the hub is just a fantastic tool indeed. Even in Logic mixing will become much more like using an analogue console the advantage being you have everything in front of you. Amazingly brilliant.

Man….To think I was worried about my lyrics being trite.

Chris is, by far, the best guy out there. I am working on my solo record and although I cannot afford to hire Chris, my saying around the house is that If I happen to hit the lottery, I will hire Chris to do it right. First time I heard CLA's work was when my very young daughter at the time asked if I could buy he a Avril Lavigne CD. I had never hear of her. When I plopped that CD and played it for he and her little friends from the neighborhood, I immediately said " WTF is this?" That record sounded great and there was a punch and clarity I had never heard before from any recording. Then I come to find out that Chris emerged from Unique Recording in Times Square and I had done recordings at that place as well! The next one was Green Day. Man, how those vocals punched through that record! Chris is simply a master at what he does!

I caught that "TUHTOREAL" line! Hahahaha good thinking on not pushing it further 🤣

great video ,i needed to see this thank you

Awesome!! Thanks for this.

thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for mixing

Sure, I have always loved how Chris manages compression. And though rather heavy with often long release times, how he nevertheless keeps his tracks sitting within the mix but with dynamic range! Yeah, I know...seems counter-intuitive, right. But if one avoids leaning into the realm of how a compressor transitions into a limiting device, this makes sense. But what I find truly enlightening is how, around the 36:10 mark, Chris talks about how he is utilizing the CLA Mixhub, this as not merely a dedicated "in line" element for most every track, but how simply passing signal through each unit manages a form of time-phase alignment/coherency. People, I am not sure as to how many picked up on this point, but this is truly brilliant. Ya know, I'm a couple years older than Chris, and back in those days of lore, back when managing dynamics always required an eye to how a vinyl cutter would respond to frequency energy, the utility of two-buss oversight was important. Hence, the two-buss art of master feeding became a specialty in the biz. Then, as multitrack units proliferated, managing multiple mic phase cancelation issues became a tracking concern. Shit, while one dude was gifted using a razor blade to man the mirror, having a sober dude capable of accurately cutting and splicing between two code-synched tape machines was key! And what Chris is getting at here is how passing each channel's signal through the Mixhub serves to gather things within a sonic commonality or frame. Shit, we used to do this by literally having units switched off BUT having signal pass through said units; as the very presence of the unit in the chain imparted and provided an inexplicable difference that was pleasing and seemed to gather all the audio elements into a coherent whole. Well, I think Chris is here noting a 21st Century means of obtaining that same kind of coherency/glue; something that can be managed track to track (as nobody is racking up 95 1176 units or LA2As (or my old-school fav was a fucking $300 Yamaha analog rack delay unit or the early Maestro EP Echoplex tube units) so as to simply pass fucking signal through them for their mysteriously added "warmth".

can Waves do a session showing CLA's assistant consolidating the tracks and normalising them? can we see the mix prep process.

Cool Video! I'm inspired. Thanks.

Great stuff, Thank you!

This was great!!!!!

Thanks guys!

This is just amazing

Hope all the local upcoming artist here keep pushing to elevate to that next level including myself🙏🏼

Great Vid 💯💥🥊🥊

Thanks for your time CLA

Yes, because every mixing session is always perfect in the lower and upper mid range…we just add highs and some low and our mixes are perfect.

I LOVE THIS VIDEO !!!!!!

Thanks for this MPA!

I had some mix I was procrastinating on, and after this video I feel inspired, like being blessed with CLArity hahaha Very nice info thanks for sharing!

just came back a few hours later to say holy shit what a game changer his basic tips are. I've been working so hard for months trying to figure out why my tracks don't sound glued together. But after putting a "channel strip" or any plug in like a tape saturator at the end of all my tracks...what a huge difference. I think if you're a beginner mix engineer...start with a console lol. seriously. use good speakers and physical effects

I didn’t know CLA was expecting, congrats dude!

Thank you so much

THIS...IS...AMAZING!!!!

Thank you ❤️

I get it. I was always using SSL and on top isotopes on top of Ableton

The best ever thank you.

I highly recommend listening to the In Flames track "Stay with Me"....Mixed by CLA. It's fantastic and has his signature sound all over it.

I've learned so much just half in .

Thank you for the Playlist. At least I have lessons being learned in order. Focus guaranteed. Thankyou. Great work Sir. Michael.

The thing about the drums being recorded in one pass for the shells and another for the brass to allow more compression on the room mics on the pass with no tops really intrigued me. That’s innovative. I’ve been an engineer for 15 or so years and haven’t seen that done yet. Now I want to try it 😵‍💫. Also the drums sound fking sick.

Thanks!

Gems!

yeah, work!!!

You can see how efficient and concise Chris' mind works. The interviewer takes forever to get his ideas out. Lots of "ummmss". He takes forever to ask a question. Repeats himself. At first he didn't bother me but after listening to Chris for like 10 minutes, then every time the interviewer talked I was like, "C'mon, spit it out! You're wasting time!"

Great advice

dope track chris dope track man

Awesome

im officially slated great vid miss it live but it was awesome still

CLA is a legend. A genius in our field. Unfortunately, the turds that most of us spend our career attempting to polish will never, ever give us the chance to reach a level like his. Great video none the less chaps, Thankyou!

Legendary 🎉

waves is dope

thanks

Excellent cheers, the only the I wish see is the automation for the rides

Cool stuff

CLA is in Tarzana?! So, I could go to Norm's and buy a vintage Strat and then go have Chris mix my record all in the same day. Killer.

Very good video

I THINK HE MAKES EVERYTHING COHESIVE BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT TOOLS HE NEEDS AND SPECIFICALLY HOW AND WHERE AND WHEN TO USE THEM SO THEY FUNCTION AT THEIR OPTIMAL LEVEL PRODUCING A HUGE CINEMATIC SOUND...

as a drummer, i never thought about recording drums separately from cymbals. i probably won't because it would feel weird and no one ever really hears my stuff anyway, but i can see the tremendous potential for working those tracks as an engineer. as i'm typing this, i'm imagining myself playing at my kit but hitting my leg instead of my hi-hat. (still probably not going to happen) i love the shark fin analogy. really makes it crystal clear about how everyone talks about vocals 'fitting in the mix' also love the bit about - i'm going to put this plugin on every track just to eliminate the potential for phase issues caused by latency. great video all around.... except maybe for that annoying Australian guy 😆

The one thing I really wanna know is does it matter if the input and output meters in the CLA mix bus are banging off the end stops? Whenever I see CLA using them they are often doing exactly that, I find that if I have to back the input an output levels off on his plug-ins so that they are still moving freely it loses the magic.

Thanks, but come on, guys. No need to stream at 60fps. Just makes streaming more difficult.

Thannks

Seether's "Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces" album was mixed by CLA, and what a fantastic sound. That album came out in 2007, and the mix absolutely holds up today.

I just like Chris, he seems like a nice guy.

CLA IS A LEGEND

When Using a template Could You Just The Turn Volume Down On Individual vocal tracks instead of turning it down on the bus ?

the best

Chri lord alge is a genius

Haha! the over-automated "pile of poo" mix :) We've all been there before :) Thanks Waves! Awesome sauce!

These videos really help me out a lot. would love to see one on recording levels and gain staging. even though I record at -18 db - -12 db already. I would like to see a session start to finish also I always get thrown off when I see the wave files and they look big like their clipping is that because they're being zoomed in.

Seems like the tracks are already pre-cooked; most of us can't just throw a bunch of 8k to the tracks and call it a day

Holy 😱

Awesome thanks gentlemen, I picked up some tips. I do question why he normalizes tracks though? Not sure I would do that but he's far better than me! Also, this is to Waves. I'm on Windows 8 still, I'm afraid of upgrading to 10 on this machine. Do any of your plugins still run on Win 8, Studio One is my DAW. Thanks!

Chris should make a mixing video game. I'd play it (Super bummed he did this ITB tho)

Excellent video! Am I wrong, or did I notice a distinct lack of saturator plugins? Please correct me if I am mistaken and point out where and what saturation plugs he was using?

People talking smack about the lyrics must have some lyrical masterpieces floating out there. CLA has an outie.

Good to know my guitars arent the only ones with that much noise

What’s your opinion on that whole phase correlation going through the mix hub? Doesn’t the DAW already compensate for that? Also, wouldn’t any plugin following it affect the sample delay compensation anyway?

36:40 This is the first time I've heard "on the same wavelength" used so literally

Where can I find this tooter roll Chris was talking about at 43:13?

I have a pretty beefy and fast MAC and the regular MixHub takes 3 seconds per channel to load in Pro Tools. Anyone else experience that?

I don't really understand Chris's comments about using the MixHub in 'Lite' mode. I use the plugin a lot (and love it) but my understanding was that the only minor difference was the processing in the EQ section of the channel strip. Not sure what difference it makes with regards to using (or not using) the 'Bucket View' elements.

😆 😆 nice intro

can we talk about how CLA says tutorial at 43:12 ?? bro almost dies loll

Lol, had me for a sec there

can you do more Mix Breakdown Start to Finish: Mixing Masterclass with Chris Lord-Alge country song