Waves Introduces CLA MixHub Plugin
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Waves Audio has introduced the CLA MixHub plugin, developed together with Grammy-winning winning engineer Chris Lord-Alge. The CLA MixHub captures the console workflow and analog sound of Chris Lord-Alge’s mixes.
Reportedly, CLA MixHub is the first plugin to work in buckets – groupings of up to eight channels, in up to eight buckets in total. In other words, you can mix up to 64 channels from one CLA MixHub plugin window. By mixing tracks side by side in the MixHub’s buckets, you’ll gain a mixing perspective that lets you immediately hear how one track’s processing affects others within a song.
While mixing, users can flip between two plugin view modes: Bucket view, with control of up to eight channels at a time, or Channel view, focusing on a single channel’s processing chain. Each channel consists of five sections: Input, dynamics, EQ, output, and an insert point. Each processing module can be expanded to reveal additional functionality.
The input section handles high- and low-pass filtering and switchable harmonic distortion. The “line” control models the line amp in Chris’s console, adding light saturation. For more extreme drive, kick in the mic pre. This, in effect, is like running a line-level signal through the console’s microphone preamp.
Chris Lord-Alge comments, “Mixing in buckets means the world to me. It’s one of the secrets to my success and to my fast-paced, decisive mixing. By creating this plugin, I’m able to give others access to that same quick workflow in a plugin, pushing the envelope of in-the-box mixing to the next, CLA-approved level.”
CLA MixHub features:
- Mix with the console workflow and rich analog console sound of legendary mixer Chris Lord-Alge
- Meticulous hardware modelling of Chris’s console with added functionality
- Mix swiftly and efficiently with a clear perspective
- Control up to 64 channels from a single plugin window: Build up to 8 “buckets,” each containing eight channels from across your mix session
- Flip anytime between bucket view and single-channel view
- Insert slot: Load an extra Waves plugin within each CLA MixHub channel strip
- Re-order your processing chain within the plugin
- Flexible dynamics sidechaining
- Includes Chris Lord-Alge’s personal presets