The first plugin of its kind, CLA MixHub captures the smooth console workflow and rich analog sound of legendary mixer Chris Lord-Alge. Mix up to 64 tracks – all from the same plugin window – using channel strips modeled from CLA’s personal console. Mix musically, within the context of a song, as swiftly and effortlessly as your ideas come.



Plugins normally work on only one channel at a time. CLA MixHub is the first plugin to work in buckets – groupings of up to 8 channels, in up to 8 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.

The Sound
The channel strips are meticulously modeled from the ground up with the latest technology, directly from Grammy-winning mix legend Chris Lord-Alge’s personal console – the console that Chris has used to mix a huge number of hits, from Green Day, Muse and Sugarland to Keith Urban and many more.

The Workflow
Once CLA MixHub is inserted on the channels in your mix, you can assign your tracks to buckets and begin making adjustments on the fly: mixing dynamics, EQ, saturation and more at a free-flowing pace without needing to switch plugin windows in your DAW.

While mixing, you can flip between two plugin view modes: Bucket View, with control of up to 8 channels at a time, or Channel View, focusing on a single channel’s processing chain.

Each channel consists of 5 sections: input, dynamics, EQ, output, and an insert point. Each processing module can be expanded to reveal additional functionality.

Input Section
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.

Dynamics
The dynamics section includes two flavors of compression: the console’s built-in compressor, as well as Chris’s favored “Bluey” compressor. Also included: a gate, expander and ducker with a “hold” control and flexible sidechain options for shaping a sound’s envelope – as Chris calls it, it’s a ‘super-gate.’

EQ
The EQ section includes 4 bands of parametric EQ, from wide bells to narrow boost and cuts, loaded with the console’s original ballistics and Q characteristics.

Output
The output section includes a VU meter and plasma-style PPM meter, plus a stereo imaging control and an output fader.

Insert Point
In CLA MixHub’s channel view, the insert point can be used for adding an additional Waves plugin to your MixHub’s chain, making it a one-stop solution for your entire mix.

Chris Lord-Alge on CLA MixHub:
“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.”

 

First of all I think this is a great idea, but I fear that this is (again) so small on my screen (5120x2880) that I don't like to use it. I was really hooked when Waves released the TG mastering chain not long ago, but why is it so difficult to offer a resizable GUI or fixed scaling options?!

Maybe someone, who already bought this thing, can tell us about the GUI size...

 

On no~~~~Another SSL stuff among many.....

 

Is just me, or we can already do this channel strip by just using the plugins that are already released???

 

great idea, looks cool, probably sounds too , but there's one one important thing i couldn't find : the solo/mute knob. without that, it's pointless. i know that advanced mixers do the whole mix all channels playing at the same time, but others like to solo things. get my point ?

ok , there's more to it than the image above.
8 channels at a time, solo, mute,panning. now, thats cooooooll, to be able to ditch the internal mixer of the daw ! wow. this can outshine slate raven on a touch screen !

woooow

all right this is big guys .

 

Last edited by a moderator: Jan 24, 2019

No, of course not. This plugin works in buckets. The only plugin that work in buckets. Not everyone has a bucket. And if you have a bucket the question is: is your bucket big enough? Above all you need 8 buckets in total! I don't even have 8 buckets. Who the f'''''ck has 8 buckets?!

Last but not least: this plugin has a bucket view. I've never came across a plugin with a bucket view before. So buying this plugin should definitely be on your bucket list.

 

Last edited: Jan 24, 2019

Watch the video's it's more than what you think!!!

 

Waves really do a great job generally!
Looks like it's another way of see the mix ITB, but we generally don't use just SSL at the final stage of the mix, but would be nice to check and experience that.

 

If you like this kind of workflow. Harrison DAWs allow all of your tracks controls available all the time. Just like a real console, It sounds great also. Worth checking out. You save a lot of time not opening plugins for EQ, dynamics, or Saturation.

 

I don`t care much for the new shiny plugs but this is interesting..

 

Seems like a NLS Channel/SSL Channel Hybrid with some added features.

Test drive for sure...

 

Last edited: Jan 31, 2019

Looks interesting. As @quadcore64 said : test drive for sure

 

you use 5k monitor?

 

Each "bucket" acts like a sub-group and can contain 8 channels max so, if you have a big project of 20, 30 or more tracks you can never "see" them all at once but need to (costantly) switch view.

 

Personally i dont understand the hate for waves.
Their vintage channel strips and tape plugins are top notch, some of the best plugins for character sound with color.

 

I've learned just resentlythen in mix shoutouts I like cla's work most,
And I'm mainly Hip-hip....I just like the density of his mixes!

....anyways definetlygoing to check this out!

 

Yes and there‘s no turning back to smaller sizes

 

I need to see how this one sound compares to bx_console series.

 

Does the Waves plugin have channel & group bus console emulation?

 

Last edited: Jan 25, 2019

I personally don't care about this as 1176 hardware compressors sounds so different depending on the unit.