Multiple reverbs on each bus, and delay plugins running through the reverb to soften the repetitions and make them blend into the overall mix better. Super useful and intuitive.
Is CLA sending the return from the delays.. into a 'regular channel' ( ie which has the same aux sends), and sending the delay to the reverb THAT way? (Ok, on my Mackie 1202 the effects returns go straight to the master buss..)
This man is a total artist, his methods and technique are not only fascinating but awe inspiring. We are witnessing one of histories genius at work here.
Introducing CLA One-Knob. Just turn the knob and get 4 different reverbs, a quarter note delay, a slap echo, a 3k bump, some stereo chorus, and some analog overdrive warmth. Put it on anything, including the master bus, just like Chris! LoL
@@philippgrunert8776 Gotcha. My biggest take away from one of his other videos is not being afraid to make drastic moves. I think he cranked 15dB of Hi shelf EQ on some Muse guitars.
@@MixChecks i though find myself boosting highs less and less and rather use slight Saturation (exept for Drums). Gives a Smoothie top end imho. It ist the Same Delay/Reverbs for me. I Generally Mix to dry and He Just boosts the reverb to the max. But i am No pro, what do i know. Thanks for pointing it Out!
I'm also closely watching the way CLA speaks - and the mannerisms... There is something fascinating about it. The pauses...the inhaling I'm a sound engineer, but I'm also in the film/dialogue world - so he defiantly has a special rhythm going on.
55 year old sound tech/engineer/mixer/producer here. Been using multiple hardware classic reverbs intertwined on single channels/groups/multiple groups/stereo mix... & multiple delays interwined with those reverbs since my I got my first Yamaha R1000/Rev 7/SPX90, Lexicon PCM 40/60 reverbs and Roland SDE3000/RE201 Tape Space Echo, Deltalab Effectron & Korg SDD3000 delays back in the early to later 80's. F**** ME I'm gettin' old!
Perhaps you can answer a common question people have. When he has the vocals solo he can pull up any of the fx return faders and you can hear the vocals being effected. So the vocals are being sent to every fx unit. Then he does the same with the drums and gtr solo. So how does he set the fx returns faders for the drums without it stuffing up a different balance he wants for other instruments? Something im not getting when it comes to the routing it seems.
I was mixing multiple reverbs in the 80's but had no idea what I was doing, and there was no youtube or anyone sharing knowledge, and all knowledge was behind locked studio doors. Chris, man, that song is incredible. Wow.
These awesome old scool mixing techniques!! Warren Huart from "Produce Like a Pro", Gregory Scott "The House of Kush", presenters at "Mix with the Masters" and now Chris Lord-Alge, all this knowledge is pure gold.
@@damienlott it show the // instrument buss eq never easily seen on others video tut. It show Drum crush eq. The pcm 42 eq, and snr+kcik // eq betwen organ and throw channel
What's amazing to me is... Chris doesn't HAVE to do any of this stuff. He's made more money than God mixing records. Literally the best job in the world .. He's only doing these videos and promos because he has a passion for making records sound amazing - and he wants you and me to make OUR records sound better! Point blank. Anyone in the YT comments making fun of or picking on CLA because he sells plugins.... well, you're just bad because YOU ain't selling plugins. Chris Lord Alge is a legend. And we should all be grateful that he and his brother Tom've been kind enough to share the euphonic formulas that took them decades to concoct!
WTF just happened?! Reverb and FX are my Holy Grail. I just learned more about this in fourteen minutes than in the last four years. This man is such a great teacher. And now I want a big ass console with $75,000 worth of outboard reverbs ; - )
What a good lad our Chris is. Some solid demonstrations there. Cool track, reminded me a little of the TMNT soundtrack if it was blended with The Darkness.
My God! This has been the best part of my week for the past three weeks! I look forward to it and always can't wait for the next episode. I absolutely love seeing Chris working on the board - a very rare experience that can be absolutely be translated in the box. I am so very thankful for this series. So nice of Chris and Waves to produce this and with no mention or promotion of Waves plugins. My respect for Waves has always been high, but producing this kind of content and making it accessible to all for free - well now you've got a dedicated customer forever. I can't thank you enough. ✌🏼❤️
Oh man, that SONY Reverb alone makes his iconic drum sound...just listening to that Reverb I know is a CLA mix, the Bricasti adds some character too but for me that SONY is key. An eye-opener for sure. The plugin developper that makes a software emulation of that Reverb will be my hero, and of course it will be an instant buy for me.
The screenshot of the plugin looks like a bank of faders. I'm expecting his fx auxes/buses in a plugin. Overlapping reverb/delays etc. Not sure if that will be the black friday plugin....
Off topic, but its interesting how "old school" console mixers seldom had their head in the sweet zone between the speakers and still managed to make good choices.
You only need to reference from a sweet spot. You don’t need to keep your ears there for the entire mix. Also, the more you know your room the less important that specific spot becomes. I’m sure at certain points in the mix CLA will center himself and take a good listen.
@@damonwicketts1638 From a personal experience, I like listening from different places in my room. It makes me hear things differently, with a sound less "direct" more relatable to how people are actually going to listen to the song.
Thanks for the video. Never thought to use multiple reverbs on drums. I tried abbey road plate, abbey road chamber, a room verb and a gated reverb. It will be my new go to moving forward!!!
Nice video. Honestly - the magic is in his ears. Setting this up in a DAW is actually very straight forward and I would argue that with an 8 fader controller you can actually do much more than on a console the way CLA is doing it.
first few videos felt like warmups running in place and going no where...this was the MAIN EVENT so far!!!! Loved it....probably my favorite Waves video ever. Any chance at getting a template or presets after this is all done???? now THAT would be epic!
Well the truth is that digital is never going to replace analogue because the only thing that digital does is replicating analogue sounds. So always thank you very much this is very educational.
I actually achieve this quite simply. The CLA vocal actually ends up on most of my lead vocals (I know…🤦♂️) so when you send that off to your verb buss, the verb is seeing the delays as well. Obviously, guitar and keyboard delays don’t get the same treatment…but I usually haul those off to echoboy or something and dump THAT delay buss into the reverb as well. It’s not rocket science…but it does make a massive difference.
CLA uses both Aux Sends and Bus routing to FX. I really want to see if Sends are pre or post-fader and how he manages the individual levels to the FX Bus. Nice video!
Thats the problem with videos like these... They ultimately want us to buy the plugin and so won't give us enough info to do it ourselves without the plugin...
During the vocal fx demonstration he was also pulling up the drum fx returns which indicates the vocals are being sent to not just the dedicated vocal fx units but the drum ones too. So if the drum fx units have both the drums and vocals being sent to them how is he able to set the return levels independently for drums and vocals? He then does the same with the gtr solo, it shares the same fx units as the drums and vocals.
So bizarr to see this gigantic mix table. It should not be that common, that all channels would be needed in one mix! 😉 It is cool to have such a hardware equipment, but i am happy, that nowadays you can do everything with computer(+hardware controller) and software, which makes nearly any kind of music production accessible even with small budget! I also invested some hundred Euros into it, for hard- and software (and i even got great offers), but not many thousands, as if it would cost some time ago! 😁
I must be missing something. You can get a balance of delays and verbs for a guitar sound, because the combo is set up to treat each sound, but what happens when the whole mix is playing through the delay and reverb busses. Obviously with the plugin, it can be put as and insert for each track, which CLA suggests, but with a desk it seems impossible to do for individual instruments, unless you print each stem after the fact.
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Watch the full series: www.waves.com/depth
Would be nice to have the song with the FX CLA talks about turned on and one version with FX off
It's a delight to watch masters at work.
Facts
So Inspiring
Your cover band videos are the best! Perfection and soul combined into one!
“You have to have the ambience talk to each other.” I love that.
Multiple reverbs on each bus, and delay plugins running through the reverb to soften the repetitions and make them blend into the overall mix better. Super useful and intuitive.
De acuerdo.
Like a guitar players pedalboard
Its amazing that he had to tell people that though.
So should I send my bus mixes to each mix bus instead of each instrument?
Is CLA sending the return from the delays.. into a 'regular channel' ( ie which has the same aux sends), and sending the delay to the reverb THAT way? (Ok, on my Mackie 1202 the effects returns go straight to the master buss..)
This man is a total artist, his methods and technique are not only fascinating but awe inspiring. We are witnessing one of histories genius at work here.
CLA is Mixing effects and the same time creating a new effects, purely Genius
I don't know what it is about CLA but watching his stuff always makes me THINK differently. Always something to learn!!!
Introducing CLA One-Knob. Just turn the knob and get 4 different reverbs, a quarter note delay, a slap echo, a 3k bump, some stereo chorus, and some analog overdrive warmth. Put it on anything, including the master bus, just like Chris! LoL
You missed the 8th note delay and the ursa, the rest is right.
Also, it automatically detects the input source and conforms perfectly 👍
The funny thing: I guess this is CLA Epic VST now. Isn't it? haha. So it's existing now.
Chris Lord Alge not only has Vanilla. He also has Chocolate. Strawberry. And Raspberry.
He’s probably a great cook and should make some videos.
xD
you can't imitate that it has nothing to do with the console, he just has a talent to get everything out of a song ... admire this guy🙏
This is probably the most useful mixing video I have ever watched.
Phil X was definitely on this track. That BV and those solo licks are unmistakeable.
Love CLA! His passion is contagious and his sense of humor is greatly appreciated. Keep rocking!
This is the single best Video on mixing i have Seen... Ever... Period
Same here.
Have you seen his other videos though?
@@MixChecks yes, it was this one that clarified a series of Things though
@@philippgrunert8776 Gotcha. My biggest take away from one of his other videos is not being afraid to make drastic moves. I think he cranked 15dB of Hi shelf EQ on some Muse guitars.
@@MixChecks i though find myself boosting highs less and less and rather use slight Saturation (exept for Drums). Gives a Smoothie top end imho. It ist the Same Delay/Reverbs for me. I Generally Mix to dry and He Just boosts the reverb to the max. But i am No pro, what do i know. Thanks for pointing it Out!
I'm also closely watching the way CLA speaks - and the mannerisms... There is something fascinating about it. The pauses...the inhaling I'm a sound engineer, but I'm also in the film/dialogue world - so he defiantly has a special rhythm going on.
55 year old sound tech/engineer/mixer/producer here. Been using multiple hardware classic reverbs intertwined on single channels/groups/multiple groups/stereo mix... & multiple delays interwined with those reverbs since my I got my first Yamaha R1000/Rev 7/SPX90, Lexicon PCM 40/60 reverbs and Roland SDE3000/RE201 Tape Space Echo, Deltalab Effectron & Korg SDD3000 delays back in the early to later 80's. F**** ME I'm gettin' old!
Perhaps you can answer a common question people have. When he has the vocals solo he can pull up any of the fx return faders and you can hear the vocals being effected. So the vocals are being sent to every fx unit. Then he does the same with the drums and gtr solo. So how does he set the fx returns faders for the drums without it stuffing up a different balance he wants for other instruments? Something im not getting when it comes to the routing it seems.
I will now be naming my reverb returns “Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Raspberry”
I like it when he mentions the icecream flavors.
he lost me at raspberry. I don't know what it is, but it seems raspberry cheesecake and ice cream are just so fake.
I was mixing multiple reverbs in the 80's but had no idea what I was doing, and there was no youtube or anyone sharing knowledge, and all knowledge was behind locked studio doors.
Chris, man, that song is incredible. Wow.
I love the full tilt on the faders then his ear tells him where to back them off to in a fraction of a second. Talk about experience.
CLA is king ! I love watching him and everytime inspires me to go and work on something and be creative !
These awesome old scool mixing techniques!!
Warren Huart from "Produce Like a Pro", Gregory Scott "The House of Kush", presenters at "Mix with the Masters" and now Chris Lord-Alge, all this knowledge is pure gold.
Mix bus tv
Rick beato
White Sea studio
Super secret studios 🤫🤫🤫
I love the camera view showing us how the console has been set up by Chris, very nice idea !
Yes, that's huge. And it haven't happened before. I would like to see the other side of the desk
@@damienlott it show the // instrument buss eq never easily seen on others video tut. It show Drum crush eq. The pcm 42 eq, and snr+kcik // eq betwen organ and throw channel
Great Advice on the multiple Reverbs. Highly appreciated
This is one of the most ridiculously fantastic tutorials I’ve ever watched. There’s nothing more inspiring than learning from a master. Great stuff!!!
What's amazing to me is... Chris doesn't HAVE to do any of this stuff. He's made more money than God mixing records. Literally the best job in the world .. He's only doing these videos and promos because he has a passion for making records sound amazing - and he wants you and me to make OUR records sound better!
Point blank.
Anyone in the YT comments making fun of or picking on CLA because he sells plugins.... well, you're just bad because YOU ain't selling plugins.
Chris Lord Alge is a legend.
And we should all be grateful that he and his brother Tom've been kind enough to share the euphonic formulas that took them decades to concoct!
WTF just happened?! Reverb and FX are my Holy Grail. I just learned more about this in fourteen minutes than in the last four years. This man is such a great teacher. And now I want a big ass console with $75,000 worth of outboard reverbs ; - )
Heck i'd give up my first born to have what CLA has!!!
The separation in this mix is awesome
Inspiring! I'm truly grateful Chris Thank you so much for sacrificing so much to make these educational videos. God bless you.
Absolutely BIG difference in Sound and Dimension! Great workflow and techniques🤘
Wow… the best block of instruction yet.. thank you!
I feel like I should be paying for this demonstration. Geez, such a good teacher.
It's really amazing how Chris combines the effects of delay and reverb in one nice sound
Phil X! Incredible singing on this.
Thank you very much for sharing this essential knowledge Mr. Alge and Waves. 🙏✌️
Thank You Very Much!
🙂🙏
Thank you for painting the picture. Very exciting
Great session as always Chris. This song ROCKS!
Effing brilliant Chris! Thanks for everything you do. Be safe and well brother 🌙
What a good lad our Chris is. Some solid demonstrations there. Cool track, reminded me a little of the TMNT soundtrack if it was blended with The Darkness.
My God! This has been the best part of my week for the past three weeks! I look forward to it and always can't wait for the next episode. I absolutely love seeing Chris working on the board - a very rare experience that can be absolutely be translated in the box. I am so very thankful for this series. So nice of Chris and Waves to produce this and with no mention or promotion of Waves plugins. My respect for Waves has always been high, but producing this kind of content and making it accessible to all for free - well now you've got a dedicated customer forever. I can't thank you enough. ✌🏼❤️
there VOD of CLA on Puremix and Mixwiththemaster where he remix full songs (Daughtry , Muse, etc...)
Oh, I’m sure the product promo is coming :) It’s good though.
@@phadrus Does promoting a free product count?
Oh man, that SONY Reverb alone makes his iconic drum sound...just listening to that Reverb I know is a CLA mix, the Bricasti adds some character too but for me that SONY is key. An eye-opener for sure. The plugin developper that makes a software emulation of that Reverb will be my hero, and of course it will be an instant buy for me.
rock on Chris keep up the great work with waves
Flawless explanation of the mixing game
Thank you soooo much!!! larger then life mixing! sheer bliss;)
What a great man. Thanks for gving us a glimps of your wisdom.
This man is out of this world
Looking forward to the „CLA Depth“-Plug-in reveal.
"OneKnob CLAer" :)
@@KenMyrheim lol
The screenshot of the plugin looks like a bank of faders. I'm expecting his fx auxes/buses in a plugin. Overlapping reverb/delays etc. Not sure if that will be the black friday plugin....
@@paulallen6849 I think that might be it. Like a StudioRack on steriods.
Thank You! A lesson i needed to hear....
Nice explanation and you can really hear how they combine to create a full sounding mix! Ciao, ALDO
This is an eye-opener, for sure!
Off topic, but its interesting how "old school" console mixers seldom had their head in the sweet zone between the speakers and still managed to make good choices.
I've always wondered about that, they clearly have to move across the console to make changes.
Or maybe the sweet zone is wider if the studio is well built?
You only need to reference from a sweet spot. You don’t need to keep your ears there for the entire mix. Also, the more you know your room the less important that specific spot becomes. I’m sure at certain points in the mix CLA will center himself and take a good listen.
@@damonwicketts1638 From a personal experience, I like listening from different places in my room. It makes me hear things differently, with a sound less "direct" more relatable to how people are actually going to listen to the song.
One of the best places to listen critically to a mix is from outside the room with the door open
This was probably the most helpful and secret pro tip I’ve ever learned. Thanks Waves and CLA!
This is a really fun series. Thanks for doing it!
Thanks for the video. Never thought to use multiple reverbs on drums. I tried abbey road plate, abbey road chamber, a room verb and a gated reverb. It will be my new go to moving forward!!!
Did it cause cpu issues? My first thought was to do the same but I’m sure it would crash ?
@@owentilbedtime no issues for me but I went away from using multiple reverbs on drums. Using one really good plugin sends seems to work just fine.
This has opened up a new perspective altogether for me to mix my songs! Lots of love and respect :)
Great Video. There is so much to this mixing. Having it explained like this is awesome.
Love those guitars at the beginning!
Nice video. Honestly - the magic is in his ears. Setting this up in a DAW is actually very straight forward and I would argue that with an 8 fader controller you can actually do much more than on a console the way CLA is doing it.
first few videos felt like warmups running in place and going no where...this was the MAIN EVENT so far!!!! Loved it....probably my favorite Waves video ever. Any chance at getting a template or presets after this is all done???? now THAT would be epic!
Amazing, thank you so much Waves Audio
Wow this was great insight I figured there were more than just adding one reverb or delay to get the job done. I’ll take this into consideration
Chris’ Epic plugin is awesome
Wow , he’s doing what I have been dreaming of doing but couldn’t explain.
CLA - "Making dreams a reality since 2020"
game changing info!!! Mind Blown!
he's a great teacher
What a great teacher!
Well the truth is that digital is never going to replace analogue because the only thing that digital does is replicating analogue sounds. So always thank you very much this is very educational.
imo the best digital stuff is the plugins that don't try to emulate, there's a lot of stuff you can do digital that you cant analog too.
@@MariJu1ce truth, but still all the best music production is like this 90% analog
This is so great. Thank you so much CLA!
He makes me wonna cook. joks away so inspiring, being good at somthing & being humble about it, it's the real vanilla.
A flawless Genius
I love watch you work!!! You’re absolutely awesome!!!!
I actually achieve this quite simply. The CLA vocal actually ends up on most of my lead vocals (I know…🤦♂️) so when you send that off to your verb buss, the verb is seeing the delays as well. Obviously, guitar and keyboard delays don’t get the same treatment…but I usually haul those off to echoboy or something and dump THAT delay buss into the reverb as well. It’s not rocket science…but it does make a massive difference.
CLA uses both Aux Sends and Bus routing to FX. I really want to see if Sends are pre or post-fader and how he manages the individual levels to the FX Bus. Nice video!
Thats the problem with videos like these... They ultimately want us to buy the plugin and so won't give us enough info to do it ourselves without the plugin...
Thanks for sharing this. Really really useful.
Tanks a lot from Paris.
thank you for the outstanding content ..... sounds amazing ....
Unreal rich sound, wooow! Analog power!!!
Straight up jewels!
Actually a good song that almost all other tutorials lack, A-Plus!
How much you wanna bet that he will do it in the box using the new Black Friday plugin that comes out this week? lol
Lol everything is a promo
Take my money lol
@@RichieCastellano Would't need money, plugin will be free
@@RichieCastellano Don’t have to. It’s free!
lol
"I also have raspberry" Love it!
During the vocal fx demonstration he was also pulling up the drum fx returns which indicates the vocals are being sent to not just the dedicated vocal fx units but the drum ones too. So if the drum fx units have both the drums and vocals being sent to them how is he able to set the return levels independently for drums and vocals? He then does the same with the gtr solo, it shares the same fx units as the drums and vocals.
guys a total G
🔥Master Engineering🔥...💯😎
Very well explained, very good!
This guy is a genius!!!🔥🔥🔥
Make more series like this with your artists, Waves! Greg, Manny, Joseph Puig, and so on
Saw a leak that the new plug-in is called the echospeare or something close to that. So probably a verb delay combo plugin
It was inspiring !...
So bizarr to see this gigantic mix table. It should not be that common, that all channels would be needed in one mix! 😉
It is cool to have such a hardware equipment, but i am happy, that nowadays you can do everything with computer(+hardware controller) and software, which makes nearly any kind of music production accessible even with small budget! I also invested some hundred Euros into it, for hard- and software (and i even got great offers), but not many thousands, as if it would cost some time ago! 😁
amazing insight
So GOOD !!!!
DOUBLE TWENTY VISION .... UGH Chriiiiissss
this is Phenomenal!
he is so good
He"s still using NS-10 instead of CLA-10.
Yeah his version sounds nothing like the originals
Why change???
@@kodykindhart8230 because he marketed and told people he threw the originals out.lol
This is gold!
I must be missing something. You can get a balance of delays and verbs for a guitar sound, because the combo is set up to treat each sound, but what happens when the whole mix is playing through the delay and reverb busses. Obviously with the plugin, it can be put as and insert for each track, which CLA suggests, but with a desk it seems impossible to do for individual instruments, unless you print each stem after the fact.
It's so true. Pt. 4 - CLA Depth AAX