
It's your job to figure out where, why, and most importantly - Do you like it!!?!! (I know I usually do! ) Summary: The clip light will come on if the plug has clipped anywhere in the chain. This applies to consoles and plugs alike. It's all about gain staging at EVERY stage in a channel strip.

if you notice the little dancing red light in the middle of the channel strip - you've overloaded! You might or might not have overloaded the input - it may be the eq or dynamic section that are making it scream a bit. Just like on a real 4k - if your meters are showing channel output post fader, your plasmas or vu's might not look stressed. If you don't want to do that, turn your input knob down as well. Pulling the output fader down might keep the OUTPUT from clipping, but you can still clip the plug internally. You can be in the same control room with me, sit in my chair, and have a similar monitoring experience in your own headphones.The clip light is going to come on whether you clip input OR output - it won't matter what you have selected your meter to show. What I hear is what I get, and I don’t have to worry about ‘Is it too much bass, is it too bright, is there too much reflection in the room?’ That’s what we can now translate with CLA Nx. “The low end and the top end are focused on my ears and not reflecting. The way it’s built, with the surface and the angles just right – it makes a huge difference to how I hear. It’s accurate – you can count on what you’re hearing, and that’s so important to mixing.

This is a way you can monitor how I monitor and hear your mixes on your own headphones like you’re in my control room. Lord-Alge: “With CLA Nx, my studio can now be your studio. The new plugin includes the acoustic response of Lord-Alge’s NS10-modeled CLA-10 nearfield monitors, coupled with his subwoofer system his custom-built Ocean Way HR1 farfield loudspeakers, modified to his specs and the boombox model he relies on to check how his mixes will translate to small-speaker devices.ĬLA Nx also supports head tracking – via a webcam or the optional Waves Nx Head Tracker Bluetooth device – to provide enhanced realism of the immersive three-dimensional spatial effect. The CLA Nx plugin combines Waves Nx spatial audio technology with measurements of Mix LA to replicate the acoustic response.īuilt by the late premier studio designer Vincent Van Hoff, Mix LA has been Lord-Alge’s studio since 2008, a room where he’s deliver mixes for Bruce Springsteen, Green Day, Muse and other top artists.

Waves announced that it is now shipping the new CLA Nx plugin, designed to bring GRAMMY-winning mixer Chris Lord-Alge’s Mix LA studio control room to any pair of headphones.Īfter faithfully modeling Lord-Alge’s console and classic hardware gear in previous CLA-designated plugins, Waves and CLA have finally teamed up to replicate his unique and proven Mix LA room acoustics and monitoring system.
