Delays into Reverbs?! Chris Lord-Alge Mixing Trick with CLA Epic

One major key to depth in your mixes is to route delays to reverbs. In his second CLA Epic tutorial, mix engineer Chris Lord-Alge dives deeper into this massive option inside his CLA Epic plugin. Learn more: www.waves.com/...
Watch the first CLA Epic tutorial in this series: www.waves.com/...
Music: “2020 Vision”
Performed by Bald Man
Music & lyrics by Kurt Deimer and Benjamin Lake Trechsel
Produced and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge
baldmanband.com

[@NikolausBrocke]

Very convincing! I tried it just for some minutes to send my fusion solo guitar to the plugin. I selected a standard CLA preset. To listen to the guitar in solo mode it was not convincing. But in the mix it sounded great immediately. With his experience he knows how effects work in a mix, not soloed. Great! A great time saver.

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

SUPERB plug-in. Loving it in my mixes! 💗🎧

[@t.j.fuller9531]

I have every CLA Plugin and added One this yesterday // His plugins are so user friendly and sound fantastic / learned so much from his videos / Thank you ! CLA

[@totigerus]

I use the CLA signature stuff daily.

[@Dmaccabees]

Appreciate You Chris “Me Lord” Alge 🔥💯🔥👀

[@michaelgormleymusic]

I bought this yesterday and found out this morning my MacBook is too old to use it. Can’t wait to get the M1 Macbook as soon as it’s compatible with everything. I’m dying to load up this plugin!!

[@giulioboobzilla]

what Mac do u use?

[@michaelgormleymusic]

@@giulioboobzilla I was on a MacBook Pro 2013, but it packed in earlier in the summer and a good friend gave me his old 2011 MacBook that was loaded with Ram. Still does a great job but it doesn’t have some graphic thing that waves uses for the GUI. I can hear the plugins but no graphic shows up

[@giulioboobzilla]

@@michaelgormleymusic oh, so da 2013 MacBook died? i´m also using a 2011 MacBook & i do c Waves plugins graphically, maybe i don´t hav da nu 1s. I was on Sierra but had 2 intall High Sierra 2 work wit Wavelab 10. Being up 2 d8 is expensive

[@michaelgormleymusic]

Yeah it’s v12 plugins that aren’t compatible so I had to go back to v11 which doesn’t have Cla Epic

[@giulioboobzilla]

@@michaelgormleymusic i haven´t even checked if i hav v12 or sumthing. dis video was over my head anyway - i neva had problems using delay & reverb so i don´t hav any use 4 dis CLA Epic

[@Svm777]

The sales rep at Waves must have nightmares about new CLA plugins coming out! Chris is a beast at persuading people to buy his stuff! So many great selling phrases!

[@MrSimonjan78]

This is an amazing plugin. Chris, you are a super star. Thank you

[@realraven2000]

@Waves Audio - sounds like there is some built in "ducking" for the delays? Is there a setting for this? Or did CLA route it through a sidechain compressor?

[@ErickT_MX]

Well, he's 100% right. Make this crazy routing on any DAW will take an epic long time to get it right.

[@giulioboobzilla]

routing is easier than understanding what he even tried 2 explain

[@bobbarnes]

Thanks Chris love the new plugin. Silly question, when you show the delays with sync on, is the timing or sync based on the BPM listed in the project itself? In others words does it derive a quarter note based on the BPM in your DAW?

[@jocke1972]

Yes

[@damienlott]

Wow, In his version of the plugin he can turn off modules, we are only able to mute them. Could this be possible in a future update?

[@jdisrael7607]

Great plugin so far!

[@cawproject]

Did anybody notice the difference between the version of the plug-in in the video and the actual one? What I mean is the FX on and off on the left!

[@williambuntas]

Yup the consumer version is a mute

[@24k-n6x]

Reversed for some reason

[@kevgamble]

I noticed that too. Was going to go back and look at mine to see if I misremembered. A true effect on/off that reduced processor load would be great; not sure whether that's what Mute does.

[@Griuofficial]

Thanks for the video, great plugin !

[@damienlott]

Please waves allow disable unused modules!

[@jaysontorres2439]

Best Waves Plug-in… 💪🏼🤘🏻

[@MMSMUZIK]

CLA is the TRUTH!!!!

[@DevanshRastogi]

now that's something

[@stevenpagano]

I see some nice controllers in the background for a 224, 480 and a TC. I can't imagine any scenario where I'd rather use a plugin instead, even if my name was on it.

[@BartekEVH]

Why delays and reverbs not have pan knobs????? Bad idea.

[@eranddroory9987]

So cool...

[@robertbeaman5761]

I'd like to know how to get those swirling echoes in the song Make Me Love You by Taeyeon. Milk by f(x) also has a ton of echoes. Very interesting.

[@rossdonaldson5494]

I don't understand how this is easier than creating a template that does the same thing. Add a delay, send it to a reverb or the other way around. Maybe I don't get it.

[@randomschittz9461]

Bro, we don’t speak about templates around here. Just wait till they find out they can change the template if they don’t like it. 😆

[@youssoubarro1671]

🔥

[@PJSOFT]

Well, I expect to hear mono, solo (not overdubbed) tracks. That will be easier to understand what's going on. I mean the demo track here is not completely useless, but it's not the ideal example.

[@giulioboobzilla]

i didn´t get what he was doing

[@RiddimBangerBeatstore1]

cool!

[@dafingaz]

Nice

[@zakidaki9692]

Top

[@busywl69]

solo mono vocal example would be better

[@beatsimplesailtonproducer3290]

Agora que os músicos de computador enlouquecer Os trappestar vai fala que é isso que tava faltando kkkkkk Analógico ainda reina

[@CortneyWarren2050]

Great plugin first of all Chris but I must say the lyrics to the song you're sculpting is POWERFUL

[@chyllhollywood]

Who's YOUR Daddy?

[@randomschittz9461]

His name is Steve, why?

[@TheManInCommand]

🤔🤔 🤔

[@jeremythornton433]

This sounds great. Too bad there is so much auto tune on the vocals. It takes away from the human naturalness that I think makes music sound real.

[@kylegushue]

Chris uses the real thing not the pretend version.

[@kylegushue]

@@SkyAvila983 we see his console and racks, the ones the pluggin is supposed to emulate.