Chris Lord-Alge: Mixing True Analog Sound with CLA MixHub

The legendary Chris Lord-Alge (Green Day) demonstrates why the CLA MixHub, his signature Waves channel strip plugin, is the truest analog in-the-box sound available, combining modern aggression with vintage musicality. Hear more: www.waves.com/mixhub
Music: “Two Ways”
Performed by Tempt, Composed by Tempt & Victoria Gross
Label: Better Noise Music
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[@danepaulstewart8464]

This new generation of emulations is SO good it's mind boggling. I worked on SSL consoles in the 90's in Chicago, and i recently did a session where a cat had these new CLA SSL channels on everything, and it was freaky, the POWER is all right there. Amazing stuff....

[@puresak]

one of the best SSL chanels so far

[@Metalpazallteway]

What is the difference between this one and the ssl g, or SSL E?

[@ETwOneE21]

Not having this plugin and skimming the title. I thought he was gonna sit at his ssl board and show some sweet, quick mixing tricks. But after watching this I’m just as impressed. Beautiful plugin can’t wait to get it

[@QuabmasM]

Once I understood the art of saturation to sound more analog with density & how to avoid chasing my tail in the mix by observing how hard I hit any plugin's threshold via automation.... ....my mixes went from sounding decent at certain parts to sounding epic & radio worthy from start to finish. Just dont forget to mix with the whole mix playing 90% of the time & have a mixing plan to commit & render certain sounds as to avoid using all your cpu via hundreds of plugins. Its good to have a variety of saturation tools & a self made recipe(mix chain) of using them to achieve those musical expensive warm tones everybody loves more than the ones lacking it.

[@TiagoOliveira-ll2iw]

do you have facebook? can i exchange some ideas with you?

[@eternalafterlyfe]

what's your vocal chain?

[@QuabmasM]

@@eternalafterlyfe These days I tend to overly focus on getting a supper dry warm recording which is important for my mix style in this digital era(my mic is usual way too bright like many others these days). I make sure no reflections from my room's ceiling are being recorded in my make-shift booth & I make sure because I have that extra dryness that I back further away from the mic which naturally gives a warmer curve to the vocal. Then after picking out all the takes I wanna use, I begin my vocal chain w/ automation(using it like clip gain but I have FL Studio so my only option is to automate the input volume) to level the signal to make sure all the thresholds in my chain will get hit w/ a consistent safe amount w/o getting too hot & choking the vocal. I use a compressor to help me check my work & I target all major plosives because digital plosives in a vocal are way too dynamic compared to tape recorded analog recordings. After I render that into a wave I officially start my chain w/ an EQ to HP filter out the lows & I might even gently take out a wide queue amount of around 400hz. Then I actually turn back on the compressor I was using that comes after the EQ & I get some gentle compression w/ slow attack & fast release & around 4:1 ratio. If Im using autotune I will take care of that before this compressor & like the pros I section out the vocal performance & use multiple vocal chains account for the major changes in performance(like going from rap to a singing part to a falsetto singing part...thats 3 different chains for each type). If Im doing the dynamic singing bus, I might throw in a limiter or another compressor w/ a super fast attack & release just to catch any rogue transients that escaped the first compressor & keep the threshold low so only those few spikes will trigger compression. Then I get my serious compression done via saturation because it compresses more musically than compressors, especially if the performance is already clip gain edited & gently compressed. I like different retro compressors as well as tape plugins. I tend to follow that up w/ Izotope which can add additional saturation, allow me to de-ess using a multiband compresser attacking the high mids & the highs, & also do any major EQ moves which i try to do in a musical way always mindful of adding a wide resonance bump to balance it all out & use less while hearing more of a contrast. I might add another saturation plugin after or a retro EQ to gently add to what I already did(I subscribe to the theory of repeating a gentle EQ cut multiple times in multiple EQs vs trying to do it all at once in one EQ at one time). I HP filter on every EQ btw. Then I throw on a gate & the rest is pretty much creating a parallel compression end, reverb send, optional exciter send, optional doubler send(using the waves stock plugin for it which I imported into FL Studio), & I tend to use an additional parallel compression that I call distortion because I use a guitar style amp to compress the snot out of the vocal & just a drop of that send in the mix can help the vocal cut through. Automating between the vocal & the parallels is the real magic. Mind you Im setting all these up on the vocal WHILE THE MUSIC is playing(not soloing the vocal but for a few seconds here & there). Also I might use slap delay & delays in many different positions in my vocal chain, but thats pretty much it. I use certain retro compressor VSTs for certain styles(I like to divide them by bright vs warm because Im using them mostly for saturation, not for the actual compression which I may or may not even dial in). The biggest AHA moment my mixes ever got was understanding the role saturation had in analog music & understanding the tones I can get out of my mic if I just back away from it & make sure no ambiance is bouncing off the walls or more notoriously, the ceiling. Im careful to gently shelf the highs of my vocal like Im LP filtering it as to get rid of unwanted harshness & digital clarity & I also use super DUPER wide shelves sometimes to tilt the entire low end of the vocal so my EQ techniques are a major part of how my chain sounds more so than which plugins Im using. I believe in the 80/20 rule & the 80% of my results that takes 20% of my mixing time is how I record the vocal, clip gain editing to level & de-ess before using a de-esser, & having a good idea what can be done w/ the saturation options I have later. Digital saturation gets dissed for not sounding like analog but the better sounding ones arent so bad if you just use a drop(Im talking as close to 1% or less) & save all the heavy saturation for the parallel signals because remember, they compress better than compressers(but make sure adding plugins isnt taking anything out of phase of course which many DAWs have different ways to fix). Also Im always trying to shape the music to the vocal at the same time so my whole formula is important at every step to avoid me chasing my tail & overlooking or undoing something. Automation really is king in getting a great sounding song. its good to be cut & paste minded despite the old timers who used to warn us not to. There has been scientifically provable tests done to show 99% of those warnings were unfounded. Of course if you hear pops & clicks after cutting a file up you need to fix that but thats why the clip gain option in Pro Tools is major(but again i have to use automation like I would clip gain except Im not automating the faders but just the input gain of the vocal going into the fader. If after all this my vocal is too bright & digital sounding, I get upset but if it sounds more so like analog records, Im happy even if its drowning in the music. Its easy to fix a vocal drowning imho...everything from a high shelf boost to an exciter w/ saturation & compression on it to parallel distortion to sidechain compressing the music to you name it. Theres many ways to make it cut but it seems to take forever to get a bright dorky sounding digital vocal to sound like its IN the song rather than ON TOP of the song. Dynamic EQ helps fix the high mid issues a bit but its seldom ever enough if you really hate the digital vocal sound like I do when its not treated properly. Warren Huart has a great video on additional parallel sends you can create to help a vocal cut through which I sometimes use in mastering to get as much out as I can w/o my song clipping. Adding a whisper track & lofing a parallel distortion track are some of the ideas including a parallel of the vocal pitched 1 octave down like its screwed. My apologies for presuming you might need all this info lol. Hope this helps & saves you years of trial & error. I spent years not realizing my vocal recordings having too much ambiance in the recording was hijacking my whole mix... ....(I would then record closer to the mic to avoid getting too much background ambiance but at the cost of super bright digital sounding vocals that sound like crap even after you EQ the ish out of them trying to get a more analog tone...& yes a warmer vocal boosted in the highs for clarity sounds better than & is different than an already bright digital vocal recorded to close, especially for the rap parts more so than the singing because all the sounds we dont like the most are in the floor of the vocal, not the transients which is why we can shave the transients via compressors & barely hear that something is gone but when you EQ cut you are bringing down both the transient & the floor & worst, after compression, we tend to bring up the overall volume which if its a bad vocal you will bring up all the nastiness in the floor you just thought you got rid of... ....including the room ambiance all in the low mids & the weird sounding floor elements at the bottom of the oddly dynamic transients in the high mids & highs of digital recordings which is a common problem w/ all digital things that suck compared to analog at least to our ears based on what they naturally like & consider professional & musical sounding; but the proximity effect of how sound works naturally makes vocals recorded further back have less transients & less dynamics in the high mids & highs hence granting a more analog sounding vocal but who wants to record further back if that means more room ambiance getting into the recording hence the need to rig your recording room to block the worst reflections MANDATORY which in my cases tend to be the ceiling hence I like many use blankets over a makeshift booth in the center of the room away from walls).

[@eternalafterlyfe]

@@QuabmasM appreciate the information, I tend to learn easier by seeing then doing and I have to cut out the ambience for sure in my room, I have this foam things like how the kaotica works but my room definitely needs treatment

[@prod.lyelye]

What was is that made the art of saturation finally click for you?

[@garfieldoliveira1458]

Have used a tonne of plugins till date, but just half a day with the mix hub and it really takes the cake, CLA Sir you rock

[@mitchdematoff9671]

Its funny...I've read a few of the comments on this video and I have say....I have had this plugin for awhile and never really used it. Since that time I have immersed myself in other manufacturers channel strips ( which most are very good ) and never gave this plugin a second look. But after seeing Warren Harts video ( not sure if I spelled his last name right ) explaining it's use , I decided to try it on a mix. Wow..was I surprised. The board emulation sounded great. Transparent and with it's drive functions sweet spots were easy to get to. Although you would still have to use this within your DAW and its mixer ( as a few mixer elements had been left out ), the addition of this plugin on all your tracks is significant. The set up of using this can take up a bit of time, but well worth it. I found working within it's buckets made the process enjoyable, quicker and with great sound and great control over the audio elements. The EQ's and compressors are very nice (and you always have the ability to process your tracks with different elements within the mixer that comes with your DAW as well ). It does take a bit of getting used to working in this environment, but once you have a working knowledge of this...well, you can fill in the rest. And if you add the CLA Mixdown and some of the other CLA plugins to your instruments tracks and apply them correctly..well, unless you hire CLA, this is as close as your gonna come to achieving a sound close to his. There are other audio processing softwares that are outstanding...I believe the CLA Mixhub is one of them. Here's an idea...how about implementing this into a DAW as it's mixer foundation. That would certainly up the ante for quality of sound within its structure. Just a thought.....

[@OrangutanTradeSalesmen]

Love this tutorial. Gonna pick up this plugin.

[@MikeSpexTV]

Thnx CLA!!this is a super cool plug.

[@nicholasdotson6006]

Awesome guy!!! very helpful and a great teacher ...

[@TheKevbe]

He is a meme but i love him

[@vigilantestylez]

They really should have made this as a mixing DAW instead of a plugin. They could have made it more CPU friendly by making it a pure mixing DAW and cutting all the other background tasks a DAW would have running at the same time which causes CPU problems once you put a few instances of this plugin across your mix. It sounds great, and I would use it more if it didn't lock up my computer after about 8 instances of the plugin.

[@cjmllvv]

Does it add colour without making changes?

[@vigilantestylez]

@@cjmllvv It seems to have some saturation already working, but I haven't analyzed it in plugin doctor.

[@cjmllvv]

@@vigilantestylez ok thanks for the reply man. I feel like the saturation you get on boards is basically more valuable than the actual functionality of a lot of the plugin

[@slugtoenail]

Interesting, I've put it on over 30 instances in a mix with no CPU problems at all. I essentially use it as a mixing daw. However, 1 instance of the schepps 1073 caused some issues by itself.

[@buffaloproducciones]

Es genial, lo uso siempre en cada uno de mis tracks... es mi preferido!!

[@waves]

Glad to hear you like it! Keep it up :)

[@Typenice]

Very nice. I can actually hear every adjustment he made even through my phone ....that's a powerful tool and everything sounded good. So its a versatile creative tool. Nice job

[@leirumanuel]

my go for tool to excite vocals and guitars. Nothing sounds like this and its so simple and so fun to use.

[@cjmllvv]

Does it add colour without making changes?

[@scottfaircloff9530]

really nice!

[@MatbiangShadap]

Nice... I like the drive section...

[@k_watts]

Good plugin. I got it as soon as it was released.

[@horriblemind]

It's a great tool and a real time-saver when it comes to quick mixing. The only thing I'd add is a scalable interface, maybe a bit brighter, too. It's really hard to see sometimes, especially in the equalizer section.

[@tonality89]

This guy is so smart,so much knowledge

[@donthomasmusic]

Hey Chris. Thank you for sharing so much of your talent. I’ve learned a lot from your videos. Could you please show your take on direct recording, an acoustic guitar? There are times I can’t use the mic and I record direct, and it’s very hard to get it to sound natural, or at least entertaining. Thanks.

[@AudioReplica2023]

On Waves KZbin channel he promotes a plugin...while on other KZbin channel says plugins are crap and he always goes analog?😑. The beauty of marketing.

[@davidroberts3262]

He hates working in the box himself because it's slow, and he's a speed king in his analog studio. He doesn't like that people use plugins without using their ears.

[@BlackenedNL]

The beauty of a silly comment.

[@Breakbeat90s]

@@BlackenedNL whats so silly about it?

[@alanbam5590]

He is a analog clown. People who actually think analog sounds better then digital are losing their dam minds. Imagine having noise in a instrument.

[@davidcotestratton]

@@alanbam5590 what's an instrument then

[@lulbraxtomusic]

Love You Chris Lord-Alge

[@CFWeb-ue7ov]

I've never heard him say plugins are crap. I've heard him say that his workflow is from a past era and his console is his instrument that he plays to mix and that plugins give people option anxiety which is why he only uses a couple of plugins that are preset like his analog gear.

[@lydfar2392]

I agree... That is how I understand it too, from listening to that interview, people here are referring to... 👍

[@ramencurry6672]

He doesn’t need those plug in versions since he has the real hardware but those plug in versions can help other small business recording engineers out there with local artists

[@tr0ublem4kerWZ]

Cla is damn national treasure!

[@selfishbeats]

use his plugins a lot now.

[@3ATTR1X]

Exactly, as long as it sounds musical, just listen to how the snare pops compressing, ignore the flashing red lights. lol

[@GundogduAkin92]

I have tried most of the SSL emulations on the market and I gotta say CLA Mixhub is by far the best one I have ever used, really worth every penny. I remember the day I heard it on my mix, I was jumping up and down with happiness like a kid! When I put in on my drum buss it really adds weight and musicality as with vocals and everything else I put on. Compressors are also incredibly good. If you are looking for an amazing emulation of the SSL this is it! Also as CLA himself said this is a multi-channel plugin so it makes multi channel EQ'ing, leveling ect. a breeze. I totally reccomend it. I love CLA and love the MIXHUB! Cheers.

[@FVDaudio]

Excelente.

[@hr2186]

Not a Waves fan... but I enjoy using this plug in....he is full of it in some ways but it is a fine thing for more straight forward projects.

[@Adilson-gravacoes]

Grande ferramenta

[@jesse_cole]

I'm not saying I think that the singer on this clip is amazing, but at least CLA is using a good-sounding, well-sung vocal recording for his plugin demo. I can't tell you how many of these videos on KZbin I have to click out of because I can't listen to the amateur dry vocal being played on a loop for more than 30 seconds.

[@surfz247]

Love this plugin! Love Waves!

[@newrockorder]

Nice guy.

[@tiaenslasombra3502]

chris lord es un maestrol 🙏

[@lk0707]

Fine on vocal, what about drums ? can you overdrive same way ?

[@kingech_B15]

"Music is not supposed to be made in a computer" -Chris Lord-Alge

[@robertcaseygaultjr.7958]

Hahahaha! He said that statement, then turns to the side and says under his breath "...yes, I'll take all of it in cash please..." lol

[@thewizard5339]

Robert Casey Gault Jr. or he got with times and understood that to make modern songs you’ll need modern tools.

[@lwinhtoophaw7839]

"And plug-ins suck!," says CLA.

[@jimmygrant3151]

agreed, but mixing and mastering can be.

[@robertcaseygaultjr.7958]

I said what I said jokingly. Doesn't matter what he uses. He's good at what he does either way!

[@drewwellington2496]

Even Mr. Garrison is like "daaamn that's a like of okays, mmkay?"

[@jimmygrant3151]

haha, I was thinking the same thing.....mmmkay

[@onemandeep3967]

Mr. Mackey* lol

[@starrshipp8656]

Fucking prefect and beautiful

[@lennydl]

❤️

[@dePUNDIT]

One question: Using this CLA Mixhub, is there still a need to have an instance of the NLS on the same track?

[@zoo_sound]

bro, did you find out the answer to this question? I am also very interested in whether it is necessary to use NLS with MixHub

[@nekrohatred9547]

Here to answer this if you never found out: No.

[@neovxr]

no criticism, it's absolutely lovely, but also funny, how you turn knobs to the maximum and have a plugin that still stays kinda in the sweet spot... :)

[@azstud10]

Hey Chris! This plugin sounds awesome, nothing beats it, as you say. Just one question: why pan/mute/solo functionality isn't there?

[@nicolasatehortua3982]

Soundwise answered that on another video, basically because the DAW interferes with those features, so they were unable to make it work.

[@azstud10]

@@nicolasatehortua3982 Good to know that at least they've tried. Thanks for chiming in!

[@sfilipee]

2:20 , it took him 5 attempts to turn that knob. Why do companies keep doing this to themselves?

[@razzerraw1108]

verdean613 Don’t we always have moments like this? Was this really that big of a deal for you to comment over ?

[@DragonboltBlastter]

Thats a fun thing to see

[@ysink]

Wow

[@ccgbassandmore3]

Companies need to make digital knobs easly turnable

[@noahbecerra]

I think it was the Force Touch trackpad on the MacBook Pro, it gets really annoying and cumbersome at times.

[@CamiloVelandia]

This is one of my favorite Waves plugins. I find it easier to use than the UAD SSL

[@rudolfbaethge282]

Will check It out!!

[@theVomitorium]

It is a great idea. But it seems that it would complicate things a bunch. There has to be a better way to do this. Maybe a partnership with DAW manufacturer(s) to have the option to have CLA mix hub as the mixer for the DAW. Maybe this could be the start of the next generation “plugin”.

[@Studio31Zero]

Sounds like "Strut" from Sheena Easton

[@MarceauNarcisse]

Does this plug-in come with the ssl and cla 1176? Or is it just the hub?

[@TomsoNYT-2408]

Just the hub but you can add any waves plugin you like into the chain. But when you buy it you only have the hub and a lite version of the hub to save cpu

[@jolymusique]

Ok Chris :)

[@siriusfun]

Behold - the gnome responsible for the homogenized sound of corporate rock in the 2000s, and in many ways, the end of originality in mixing. #MixByNumbers

[@10kucold23]

can this give a mix a crisp sounding mix?

[@kurjenk]

Hola! Si supiese la gente de Waves cuánto nos interesa esta clase de material a sus clientes de habla hispana que no sabemos inglés.... En cuánto se incrementaría el costo para incluir subtítulos en estos vídeos con tan valiosa información? Espero tomen esto como lo que pretende ser, una simple crítica constructiva. Saludos!

[@pepe7drum]

Te la regreso amigo, si tú supieras todo lo que te pierdes por no aprender a hablar otro idioma en lugar de esperar a que Waves haga algo, especialmente si te dedicas al diseño de audio, tanta información valiosa en inglés que existe hoy en día, es invaluable

[@AndreMixedIt]

How much processing does this use if you have to put it on every channel???

[@moskva-kassiopeya]

Andre Mintz YES

[@adieltm]

@@moskva-kassiopeya there is a lite version or you can mute the noise function

[@AndreMixedIt]

Is it heavy on processing for your computer?

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

Heavy

[@peterwaterman2007]

OK....

[@NONE2NONE]

I hate that I can't hear anything that he's changing. He's changing all these knobs and I literally can't hear any difference. How do you improve your ear for stuff like that?

[@dul22]

Ableton Live's gate has a hold since probably the begining, is this really new and special ?

[@RaduJon]

It’s the Donald Trump of plugins, OK?? Ask anybody. You’re gonna love it 😅 OK??

[@alienair1748]

hahaha. i was thinking same thing

[@lordofstringss]

Nobody knows in the box mixing like me, OK, I cant say its the best thing to do but its kinda sometimes is the best thing to do, OK? sometimes you have to decide if you think its the best thing to do, I am not saying I don't do it but its kinda the best thing to do anyways, next question.

[@qbertykey6223]

OMG I was saying “donald trump of ‘mixing’” right before I saw your comment! 😂🤣

[@teo6655]

Whit the only difference that CLA knows what he does.

[@cheesewave]

So why does he still have the SSL desk if this is just as good?

[@mesabog2]

He uses the console because he can tweak multiple things much faster on a board with his hands than with a mouse on a screen.

[@jimmygrant3151]

I added two instances of CLA Mixdown to a track it it "woke" up. Is too many too much? Because this sounded great.

[@WhtsUpYoung]

listening to ppl that can do their craft with out consciously thinking >

[@ThanikamaStory]

🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️🎧🎧🔊🔊

[@golddee2040]

I think I just found my John Danaher, but for mixing.

[@danyeasy]

😋👌

[@cjmllvv]

Is this adding colout without any changes?

[@virgilhughes7837]

You could check this out if you add a spectrum analyzer / eq after it and make no changes to the plugin ;)

[@cjmllvv]

@@virgilhughes7837 maybe it might be too subtle for eq to pick up that way. I think the line/mic and output knobs are adding console saturation though

[@RussCottier]

Wasn't Waves NLS multitrack (channel) before this?!

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

Russell Cottier So? They’re two different tools.

[@imdo9182]

лучшие плагины

[@futumama1]

Big Man...its tru..simulated analog, than why not with distortion litle like really analog. For analog litle red peak is no problem..YEH !

[@aaronglass890]

okay

[@xxrwillzxx]

Im a little late to the party but Chris is a beast!

[@jensschettler1732]

Ok

[@justinurness]

Why is this man yelling at me

[@weedywet]

"Okay?" 13 times. Impressive.

[@minusx31]

The name Chris Lord sounds like a millionaire club owner with his Ferrari out front...

[@precisionsoundworksstudio]

Ha!!! Got introduced to a guy one time. I referred to him as Mr. Azdren. He shouted and pointed at me, “You will only refer to me as Lord Azdren.” Delusional real estate developer! 😂

[@CircadianCitizen5]

I see the comments about this guy being a meme. Why?

[@pepe7drum]

Because people are stupid

[@kylegushue]

True analog sound from a completely digital pluggin. False advertising?

[@thewizard5339]

You wouldn’t be able to tell the difference

[@futurebeats898]

Its false advertising for sure

[@futurebeats898]

@@thewizard5339 cmon dude. Digital still far behind good analog.

[@alexeysmirnovguitar]

Fleur De Lys man, don’t be so biased. There’s no way you could be right. Tools are just tools without a good ear for music and understanding of sound. You can make anything sound great if you have the craft and know how to use your tools. Look at Tony Maseratti, Andrew Scheps and Tchad Blake! They mix completely in the box and mixes do sound great.

[@Mixingmachine774]

Picasso draw a picture with his pencil.And you draw a picture with photoshop.Cant you tell the difference between them ?

[@lorraineming4590]

Good plugin, just be sure to have a powerful CPU and tons of RAM

[@gratefulmusicsound8337]

I ran it with 2013 iMac 1TB and 8GB ram with no problem.

[@gratefulmusicsound8337]

Yeah! And on every single tracks ( 16 tracks to work like you really input it to the console ) I think your computer had another problem.

[@lutioliv]

...Naaah,it's a cpu hog!Though i'm a Waves Plugins user,I prefer the SSl Channel strip from brainworx and Harrison Mixbus.

[@billwilliams3912]

No, it's not. You obviously haven't used it.

[@petefaders]

@@billwilliams3912 I've heard many people say it's a CPU hog. I think they updated it to be better though.

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

There’s a light version of the plugin. But I’d much prefer if one could switch within the same plugin. So that you could work in Light mode, and switch to HQ when rendering.

[@nicolasatehortua3982]

Bill Williams yes it is, as much as I love that plugin I had to stop using it because it’s way too cpu intensive.

[@030yk]

Sounds amazing but the bucket work flow aint it😭

[@BenPotts]

he says so little with so many words

[@MKD371]

most people who use these plugins know that analogue modelling if done correctly, has the ability to be overdriven, if they don't know this: still don't talk down to them. Be polite.

[@AboveEmAllProduction]

This is a parody of himself aswell as in the box mixing. This is god awful. Plugin seems to sound nice though

[@MKD371]

CLA needs to stop talking down to people. He needs to stop being patronising. "I've made it simple for you", doesn't matter who he has mixed, talking to people with that tone and attitude is not required. After all any customer buying this product is doing it to support CLA.

[@billwilliams3912]

He's not talking down to anyone. His personality is EastCoast NYC/NJ. You're misinterpreting it.

[@futurebeats898]

So sensitive

[@coltonrudd]

Like Bill said, it's really just his personality and where he's from. He doesn't do it to be a dick to people. If you've watched him for quite some time, you'll notice he's actually gotten softer over the years...either that or I'm just used to it!

[@MKD371]

@@coltonrudd Softer over the years. Where he's from", guys I have followed CLA's work for time, the fact he needs to get softer..haha, says it all.

[@MKD371]

@@futurebeats898 Sensitive, haha, I don't hear any of the Rolling Stones members talk like this when I'm in the studio with them.

[@XCEPTIONALSTUDIO]

Spanish please! we are latin waves gang !

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

Xceptional Estudio Learn English, amigo;)

[@alienair1748]

the excitement and dynamic is not in that horrid 80s vocal. . great tool he made, but find any other kinda vocal. Gyahhhh

[@billwilliams3912]

When I see comments like this I always enjoy what I inevitably find if anything on the poster's youtube Cannel: Excrement

[@DonNadie_001]

El tipo es tan vago que compró varios la2a para tenerlos onda presets xd

[@johnewald3148]

what a joke

[@Mixingmachine774]

Plugins are for bedroom musicians.All of the mixers mix their songs with gears.Without gears They cannot achieve great mixes with only plugins

[@Tazmanian_Ninja]

rcxmanking What a load of BS. Plenty of the world’s best mixers work ITB.

[@vigilantestylez]

Go look up Serban Ghenea, and then come back and apologize for what you just said.

[@Mixingmachine774]

@@vigilantestylez I wanna say that hardware is still better than plugins.None of the all plugins are not like the hardware.Is not it ?

[@vigilantestylez]

Brainworx SSL plugins sound exactly like the consoles. Many engineers can't tell the difference. If it sounds good then it's good. Serban Ghenea is the most sought after mix engineer in the world. He mixes totally in the box with Protools and the Metric Halo Channel strip for the most part. He does use some other plugins, but he doesn't use a console at all anymore. He has a great control room in his house with Dolby Atmos and all the top monitors you need. Anyhow, I like the sound and sonic shaping you get from a desk plus I like turning knobs and mixing with my ears instead of my eyes so I use SSL plugins. I also have Harrison Mixbus, and that has a very authentic analog sound. It's 2021, you can get a nice smooth analog sound in the box. If you can't, then you can't mix for shit and should consider finding something else to do with your spare time.

[@Mixingmachine774]

@@bluematrix5001 I think You are itb mixers🤣

[@zoo_sound]

One question: Using this CLA Mixhub, is there still a need to have an instance of the NLS on the same track?

[@virgilhughes7837]

You should do whatever sounds best. In some cases it will be "needed" in some it won't. experiment.