Waves Chris Lord-Alge Signature Series

Chris Lord-Alge Signature Series

The Secret Formulas Behind Hit Mixes

Let mix legend Chris Lord-Alge take care of your sound—while you focus on your music. Each of these plugins distills Chris’s entire mixing chains—for vocals, drums, bass, guitars and more—into a few easy-to-use controls, helping you achieve clear, punchy, exciting mixes in no time.

These are the mixing chains CLA uses to craft classics for Foo Fighters, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, Nine Inch Nails and so many others—and now you have quick access to these chains in your mixes.

Get That Brilliant CLA Sound—Quickly and Easily

Produce Powerful Pro Vocals—Fast

The classic CLA Vocals plugins, used by hundreds of thousands of producers, musicians and engineers, brings a crisp, present quality to lead and background vocals, male or female. Tweak the timbre, adjust the ambience, add depth and clarity—Done.

Open Up Your Drum Sound

CLA Drums elevates drum sounds—kick, snare, toms, overheads, room—like It’s like an audio combination lock: Put it on your drum sources, try Chris’s own presets, adjust quickly to taste if needed (often the presets will be enough!)—and hear your drum sound open up immediately.

Dominate the Low End

CLA Bass lets the bass occupy its rightful place in your mix. From full, round, purring tones, to a hint of aggressive crunch that barks its way through a mix, this clever effects chain takes the work out of finding a bold bass tone.

Bring Guitar Sounds to Life

Getting a convincing sound from direct guitar used to be difficult—but then came CLA Guitars. Whether you want sweet, clean tones, or ripping leads with heavy vibes, you’ll find them in this versatile effects chain.

Make Acoustic Instruments Shine

Nothing makes acoustic instruments shine more than gorgeous reverb, delay, compression, and hi-res EQ. From dreamy ambience to crisp clarity that cuts beautifully through a mix, CLA Unplugged delivers.

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Innovative. Wild. Smart. CLA Effects is a grab-bag of pitch shifting, distortion, long and short delays with tempo sync, reverb, and EQ. It’s perfect for adding that “certain something” that lifts a mix out of the ordinary.

CLA Bass

Grammy winner Chris Lord-Alge (Foo Fighters, Green Day, Muse) has laid down some of the punchiest sounds ever for modern rock music. CLA Bass translates his experience, forged in world-class studios around the world, to a monster tone machine for bass.

Whether you record electric or synth bass, CLA Bass delivers the full tonal spectrum from shaking sub-bass to a deep chainsaw growl—and makes it easy to dial up the right bass sound for your mix.

CLA Drums

Grammy winner Chris Lord-Alge (Springsteen, Green Day, Muse) says it best: “When creating the CLA Drums plugin, I had one thing in mind—anyone who uses it can get a great drum sound for any song and any mix, and just have fun!” Mission accomplished.

With separate processing for individual drum tracks, each sound has its own focus that contributes strength and detail in the final mix. With CLA Drums, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

CLA Effects

Sometimes you want to go beyond basic processing—and so does Chris Lord-Alge (Foo Fighters, Bowie, Nine Inch Nails). CLA Effects puts the “special” in special effects with distortion, two types of delay, a novel “throw” switch for expressive delay, pitch processing, reverb, and more.

Transport your effects buses and tracks to a world of lo-fi fuzz, dub-style delay, tape flanging, wide stereo, versatile echoes, novel EQ, and other tools for polishing your sound or adding that unexpected effect.

CLA Guitars

Guitars are the sound of rock, and Grammy-winning engineer Chris Lord-Alge knows guitars. His hits with guitar-focused bands like Foo Fighters, Green Day, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold—and so many more—are known for their driving, exciting, radio-ready guitar sounds.

CLA Guitars’ 6 effects and 3 modes (Clean, Crunch, and Heavy) deliver the sounds you’ve heard in hit after hit. Feed your need for instant gratification—and inspiration—with CLA’s expertise.

CLA Unplugged

Acoustic instruments play in an acoustic space, so enveloping them with a realistic ambiance is crucial to the mixing process. Chris Lord-Alge (Foo Fighters, Muse, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen) knows that glorious acoustic sounds require exquisite effect chains.

CLA Unplugged’s two lush reverbs (each with pre-delay), delay, bass/treble EQ, and compression give all acoustic instruments a luxurious polish—from realistic textures, to rich and dreamy.

CLA Vocals

We worked with Grammy-winning mixer Chris Lord-Alge to pack his six favorite vocal effect, each with three optimized variations, into a plugin that excels at all-around vocal processing. Six faders optimize bass, treble, compression, reverb, delay, and pitch—quickly and easily.

Now, the same kind of expertise applied to vocals by Green Day, James Blunt, Foo Fighters, and countless others can be part of your productions—and bring out the very best in your voice.