Chris Lord-Alge mixes ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ by Green Day
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Observe the eminent Chris Lord-Alge mix ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’, the Grammy award-winning Record of the Year by Green Day! Filmed at his private studio Mix L.A. in California, this series reveals how CLA tackles a mix using only analog processing. He starts from scratch, opening the Pro Tools production session and taking you through his essential preparation stages. Chris explains the signal flow, shares his outboard gear of choice, and plays the raw signals. Upon getting a static balance, he launches into the impulsive sonic sculpting for which he is revered. You’ll see how he addresses each element of the famous rock song, applying tasteful treatment with EQ, compression, and effects. He reiterates the importance of simplicity and using only the tools necessary for the job, showing how he can drastically enhance the audio in a straightforward manner. As always, CLA is as enlightening as he is entertaining!
My man just said "hundreds of years." CLA confirmed immortal.
Hahaha
I only spent 50 years recording live bands in studios and it seems like a thousand. I can understand the over calculation.
It's that quick, that simple, that easy because the source audio is incredibly well recorded and produced.
Exactly, Good production and engineering is what really makes a good mix
Back in the day they called it "good enough" today it's called incredibly well recorded...long live the home studio era haha
People need to understand this now more than ever. With the advent of virtual instruments, people think they can just pick any old preset or tone and leave the rest for the mixing stage without considering if it actually works with the arrangement.
5 minutes for the mixer, 72 hours for the recording engineer.
Haha exactly...
The production quality of this album is fucking legendary
Have you heard the HDTracks remasters by chance?
@@nbctheoffice no, I've never even heard of HDTracks. Is it just like a FLAC quality version of the album or something? Or a proper remaster?
Shoutout to the recording engineer and producer for setting him up for success with incredibly recorded music
That would be Chris Dugan and Rob Cavallo. They make a hell of a team!
CLA: "Mix with nothing!" Also CLA: Mixes with million dollar equipment.
Also CLA: "Mix entirely in the Box with Waves" Also CLA: "Mix the CLA-way, all analog!"
hahahahahah
@@experiment0003 If one have the opportunity to choose, why not choose what you are used to? That doesnt take away that he can achieve the same results ITB, which he also proved in several videos.
he is also using the old ns10s with the covers over his cla10s lmao
You can mix just like him with an OTT =))
2:21: "Start where I started. We had nothing..." ... but perfectly recorded instruments and vocals.
I mean it’s a damn start, a polished turd is still a turd. Starting with well recorded instruments and vocals is a given, the results are better and require less mixing.
He mixed Katy Perry hit n cold one of the cleanest songs I've ever heard
Hundreds of years or practicing? Homie's got a time machine
simple with maximum results....thank you for inspiring
Honestly it sounds amazing!
Tantas máquinas para el último consejo, llegó a esa conclusión después de haber usado de todo. Que grande CLA !
I bet you that was recorded with a Sony 800g and a bunch of Neumann mics and Neve this Neve that gear in a room with perfect acoustics. But at the same time he's right, he knows EXACTLY what needs to be done and his gear is already set up to quickly do it... After "hundreds" of years of trail and error.
Спасибо вам за ваш гениальный труд! 💪
hes so right. monomix and the raw stems given is the way.
He has over 100 years of experience in the field! Impressive!
As humans we tend to overthink most things especially mixing. CLA always brings us back to earth and keeps it simple, the workflow is what I take away from these videos. His organisation is impeccable. It’s all about a good balance.
because its so simple to have a million dollars worth of super effective gear
@@juleleleldilla3950 you can get the same effects with stock plugins. It’s his taste and choices that make him a great mixer.
I went through lots of CLA mix tutorials and the most refreshing thing he said was to make decisions to make your mix life easier. If he gets 16 quad-tracked guitars, 15 of them are getting dumped. No-one can control that amount of faders, I did a Nail The Mix one with Joel Wanasek and after 6 weeks of working on it, I wanted to string myself up. In retrospect I thought "CLA would have thrown away half of this crap and mixed it in a quarter of the time".
@@DrRinse he also bounces them down into stereo pairs. And then busses through the console.
@@juleleleldilla3950 It's the mindset and the mixing philosophy, which can be replicated on digital. CLA is just an old school dude who prefers analog gear, but most gear have already their own digital counterparts. The companies of said analog gear even sell the exact digital version of it. It's not about the gear
Finally, a class with Greenday
holy shit thats studio is cool
That original video got me in recording and mixing
Mix with the legend, mix with the Lord.
luv it, is there a full video available Mix with the Masters?
I’m semi-new to mixing, but the whole time i’ve had the “minimalist” approach to it… mainly because i only know a few plugins well enough lol
In the end, it boils down to what the sound needs. And sometimes It simply doesn't need that much. Adjusting by your feel is the key to a good mix.
If only it was that simple.... it's not.
hey when you see robin schulz tell him southstar is coming for him
0:36 "MAKE MIXING GREAT AGAIN"
The old footage of Green Day in CLA's studio was taken from Chris' original KZhead channel which you can find here: kzhead.infovideos
I mentioned this to you almost 5 years ago, still no change
First comment! Love this minimalist approach of letting the song mix itself. The most involved part of my job is sending the invoice!
Well said pal.
CLA Wooooooooo
Dear CLA, we know you love the analog style. But for some if not most of us, what we have are plug ins and pro tools. And most times, we don't have the luxury of getting a well recorded song to mix. I love your mix though.
Either embrace the low quality “grunge-ness” or outsource the recording by buying nice samples. For example slate drums or stl tonehub. Then all you have to do is level and slight EQ.
You just can't reach this level of a mix with plugins. That's why the biggest bands will always go to such studios that mix on a million dollar gear.
@@simonbezek6382 They don't pay for gears, they pay for the experience of this great engineers... I saw a lot of video by Cla mixing normal stuff with just waves plugins and at the end the sound was fantastic!!!
@@simonbezek6382 Andrew Scheps mixes 100% ITB, he also have Green Day on his client list. Thus, equipment doesnt matter, only skill.
@@JJRockford Yes, tell me one hit song he mixed ITB ;)
Many in the comments write that Chris does mixing so well because he has equipment worth millions of dollars. In fact, all this is not at all necessary. You can make mixing just as good as using the most common, standard computer plugins. The main thing here is the skills and quality of recording and monitoring. I myself have been convinced many times that if a multitrack is initially recorded with very high quality, if there is nothing superfluous, then mixing is as easy as possible. I trimmed the lower frequencies a little with the equalizer and compressed it a little with the compressor. Set balance and panning. And finally I added 1-2 reverbs and delays, and that’s it! The song is ready. Of course, there is mastering at the end, but if the track is well recorded and mixed, then mastering is quite simple. But if the tracks were initially recorded poorly, in an acoustically unprepared visit, and even if everything is mixed on poor acoustics, then big problems begin.
Can you guys do something about the slow server on your end? The videos takes forever to load on both the app and the website. It takes a good 5min-10min waiting for the course videos to even start to play. I tried different browsers, through the iiphone app.. its all very very slow. And subscription is starting to look very very expensive if i cannot see the videos.
Where's the part where Chris Lord-Alge mixes ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ by Green Day?
Can’t get over Billie’s voice. My favorite voice ever
I wish I could work with him.
Facts he’s dope !!!!!
I wish I could be him.
You can. You can literally just pay him for his services.
🔥🔥🔥Fak yeh!!
i need more plugins!
Would love same vid with their best album Dookie.
Unfortunately the man who mixed Dookie, Jerry Finn, passed away in 2008
Historic
I thought he already did this a few years ago on this same song?
Man! It be AMAZING if you'd deconstruct some SEETHER!
Would love to show you the printout of my rv spot at Oaisis......with the info to contact YOU in Santa Monica studio
It's pretty much a boulevard of broken dreams for many of us, Chris Not all of us make it 💀
Howdy!
Where was the audio coming from in those channels? tape?
Pro Tools
Chris Lord-Alge: The master of not telling you a thing. Surprised he didn't push his plugins in this video. Lol
I’d love to watch the whole thing, I’d buy it stand alone but I’m not going to sub for hundreds of dollars
“Mixing CLA-style, while also pocketing wedge from plug-in sales with your name on” 😉
title: Chris Lord-Alge mixes ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’ by Green Day Video: compress snare drum, put fx on vocal :done 👍
It is obviously only excerpts from a longer video.
The ancient one has spoken
"Mixing is balancing. Working with no Tools..." Looks behind him 😮
I love any CLA mixing video, but a bit puzzled by MWTM would want him to make an all-analog mix video. I admit mixing techniques are all rooted in the analog era, however, and there is still a lot modern mixers can steal and borrow from era.
You can pretty much copy this bit by bit using the software equivilants of his hardware; Thats how CLA himself does it when mixing in the box.
With perfect recordings in 10000000 studios and 100000000 equipment try doing that recording in my bedroom
Do they really need all that equipment to mix a punk rock song
Wise words, mix with nothing. That song sounds quite pleasing and what's cool is that you can sing wonderwall ontop of the intro/verse.
how many MS use on slap delay? plz say me
166 ms. As Lennon used to use.
@@atgred thx br0! reverb u know used?=)
@@dudecloo CLA uses many reverbs. Even 2 reverbs in one send. There is a video in MWTM where he explains every effect he uses. For the Lennon sound, it was an EMT 140 plate reverb.
In his ”CLA Epic” series for Waves, one can get a very extensive view on how he works with both delays and reverbs.
its so true the more you mix it the worse it sounds. less is so much more. and the more is analog gear lol
No way dude. More plug-ins is more better!!!
Buttons/knobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
is this new?
Must be! Awesome!
I hate when my music buddies want to “make music” yet they fiddle with some “new plugin” they just got and add 20 layers to a “sick synth”. After 2 hours, there’s no song, no melody, no ideas. Just tinkering with noise. I guess it’s cool but for fucks sake more people need to understand the importance of THE SONG. There needs to be harmonic ideas, or some sort of active jamming. Unless you are purely going for texture… I wish I had more friends who wanted to write music.
igh was ur discord?
Yeah it took me a long time before I started to understand and hear "songs" and be able to put it all together instead of just jamming, or playing with sounds.
This is something I've been fighting with conceptually recently. On the one hand, timbre can be incredibly important to the identity of a part. Delay's and many other modulation effects can immensely effect the way you think about what you're playing. Writing a standard chugging metal riff is probably about 50x harder to do with a clean spring reverb tone than with distortion and scooped EQ. So I think playing with timbre is a useful thing to do when playing around with ideas, but it has to be in conjunction with the explorative aspect of writing. When I'm writing a part, I'm looking for something that I won't know what it is until I find it. Once I find it, I know I've found it. I know when I'm getting closer to or further from whatever it is I'm trying to find, I might even have a loose idea of where it is to begin with. However I can't start looking until I start playing around with stuff, and starting with timbre is a very good way of doing that. But at the same time, a part should be able to stand on it's own a little bit too, like a great part could and maybe even SHOULD sound good on a piano or on a distorted guitar or on an ensemble of flutes or whatever. Maybe you're not supposed to know this and be consciously aware of it, maybe that gets in the way in and of itself. I still can't really come to a conclusion about this stuff. What I do know though, is that if you don't come out of a writing session with some semblance of structure and multiple parts, then 99% of the time that idea will go nowhere, at least for me. I feel like I have made a pointless comment to some extent, but maybe someone will be able to scoop out a coherent thought from what I said so I'm gonna post it anyway haha.
So 2001
So, what's the deal with Santa Monica then? I would give you a call but something REALLY SHADY going on with this "Vegas" bs
The bass is probably 70% of the sound on this album
Says the guy with $8B worth of gear in his storage closet
Oasis "Wonderwall" & Green Day "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" mashup (RaveDJ) - kzhead.info/sun/gc9pcddpsZeNl58/bejne.html
start where I started..recording Thomas Edison on a wax disc
He probably wouldn’t argue with that haha
Sorry if you actually respond it isn't coming back to me....all Forwarded to unknown hackers
I don't like Chris' videos because he never explains what he's doing with the outboard eqs and why. I prefer Ryan Hewitt's and Luca Pretolessi's videos where they elaborate on this. It's not enough to just say "I used this EQ". Well, why? And what is it doing.
Check out some of his ITB mixing videos, there you can see exactly what he dials in, e.g on Puremix or the Slate videos.
lol this video is jokes 🤣💀
Some advice wrapped in a horrible exclusionary attitude He wants to tell you you're doing it wrong because he can do it right. The important takeaway should be "understanding properly what your changes and add-ons do to a mix", not "don't use your tools" just because he had to walk up both hills in the snow with no shoes to get to school every day. You're the reason people don't want to join your industry, and it's because you're designing it that way.
nah more like just learn how to balance a mix on it's own without processing and plugins. simple as that. sound advice if you ask me. this song still sucks though lol
yes, very "exclusionary" of him to put out dozens of videos showing you exactly how he mixes. him saying that you don't need the million dollars worth of gear behind him is his way of trying to give you confidence with what you have. your comments are overly sensitive and reek of insecurity
@@HIGHHOPES this was my first exposure to him when searching out learning materials. He should fix or update this video then. I don't want anything else to do with him after he made me feel shitty for no reason. This should not be his advertising or what youtube recommends to newbies in that case. If he's not an asshole in other videos, this needs to be a hell of a lot more clear somewhere around where he's being a dick to everyone. If someone makes me feel like garbage, the last thing I'm going to do is watch more of his stuff.
this dude is irritated that people do good in the box. he's a hater boomer haha
You can't do such a mix with plugs, sorry
@@simonbezek6382 of course you can
@@simonbezek6382 Of course you can. CLA even done it himself in several videos :)
How long do people spend on a ruff mix. Not much and a lot of the time the ruff mix sounds better than the 2 hour plus mix. Less is more. The guy doesn't have a name for nothing.
The only thing CLA is mixing these days is cookies and lard...come on dude
So we learned nothing. Great. Thanks.
There's a difference with trying to learn and want to be spoon fed. If youre asking for the actual details, like what frequency, how much delay time on that slap, or whats a slap delay and if those things are what you want to hear, then all you wan to do is be spoon fed and not learn. Cause not one mix will have the same things and will be useless. He actually said a lot here that will be true after a decade or more in any mix engineers career, despite the video being really just a teaser so people gets in with mix with the masters.
And the lesson here kiddies is.......absolutely nothing! Just another useless diatribe by the most narcissistic engineer of all time.
one of green days biggest turds of a song, 2004 was the year that pretty much ended Green Day being listenable as a whole
hi cris i download your ssl channel plugin its realy good woooow its makes a great job . i downloade bi Waves audio coooool 👍
"Mix with nothing"...and then you see literally millions of dollars of gear around the guy....