Supercharge Your Career with Chris Lord Alge!
Chris Lord Alge
May 2-3, 2025 from 10a to 6p
1,295.00

About This Event

Join the legendary five-time Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer/mixer and musician Chris Lord Alge as he helps you craft your career in music using the “C.L.A. Way.” The genius behind such landmark albums as Green Day’s American Idiot and Steve Winwood’s Back in the High Life, along with numerous recording credits, including music icons Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Rob Zombie, Elton John, Jewel, Pink, My Chemical Romance, and many, many other artists. Don’t miss this rare chance to learn face-to-face with one of the most influential and vital producers/engineers of the 21st century. Space is limited, and this one will sell out fast! Click the button below to sign up now!

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Supercharge Your Career with Chris Lord Alge!
May 2-3, 2025 from 10a to 6p
from 10a to 6p
| 1,295.00

About this Event

Join the legendary five-time Grammy Award-winning producer/engineer/mixer and musician Chris Lord Alge as he helps you craft your career in music using the “C.L.A. Way.” The genius behind such landmark albums as Green Day’s American Idiot and Steve Winwood’s Back in the High Life, along with numerous recording credits, including music icons Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Rob Zombie, Elton John, Jewel, Pink, My Chemical Romance, and many, many other artists. Don’t miss this rare chance to learn face-to-face with one of the most influential and vital producers/engineers of the 21st century. Space is limited, and this one will sell out fast! Click the button below to sign up now!

What You'll Learn

DAY ONE

  1. Experience the C.L.A. story by listening to his mixes through the years
  2. Develop your routine by paying attention and staying in the moment
  3. Setting up your rig and making the most of your setup
  4. Solving the monitoring myth: speakers vs. headphones
  5. Turning your music hobby into a business by taking yourself seriously
  6. Creating your rule book: pricing, hours, billing, and setting boundaries
  7. Setting yourself up to be fast and focused
  8. ” Uncle Bob”: your email-only manager
  9. Setting up your space for efficiency for impressing clients
  10. Setting up your social channels to best serve your career
  11. How to network to get new clients and what to offer
  12. How to manage files on the cloud and in your library
  13. Mixing and how to deal with clients
  14. Creating your deliverables package
  15. How to master and deal with revisions while building trust
  16. Managing rough mixes and artist expectations
  17. Mix and delivery levels
  18. Why you should save everything
  19. Maximizing your rig and your toolbox
  20. Organize, Organize, Organize
  21. The Monday morning review
  22. Setting up your room for mixing

DAY TWO

  1. Turning the files you receive into your mix sessions
  2. The importance of creating your template
  3. Plug-ins vs. outboard gear
  4. Find the ten plug-ins to use on every mix
  5. When to prepare sessions and when to mix sessions
  6. Learn how C.L.A. organizes a session
  7. See C.L.A. prepares a session from a student’s files
  8. C.L.A. mix with plug-ins
  9. C.L.A. student mix
  10. C.L.A. sits with each Student and discusses his process
Chris Lord Alge

Meet Your Instructor

A professional engineer and mixer since the early 1980s, C.L.A. has become an absolute legend in the sound engineering community. Getting his start as an engineer at H & L Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, C.L.A. started his promising career working on projects by The Stylistics, Sugerhill Gang, and Grandmaster Flash, among others. Upon his relocation to New York City, C.L.A. would put his stamp on some of the most influential artists of the 1980s, including James Brown, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Jeff Beck, Pat Benatar, Hall & Oates, Chaka Khan, and Steve Winwood. In 1988, C.L.A. relocated to Los Angeles and added to his ever-growing list of musical legends with Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, The Rolling Stones, and The Cars. The 2000s would cement his status as one of the essential mixers in rock and roll history with the seminal American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown albums by Green Day, which garnered three Grammy Awards and have amassed a total worldwide sales of more than 28 million copies to date. Today, C.L.A. mixes, develops new studio tools with Steven Slate Digital and Avantone, and educates the next generation of mixers and engineers on the skills they need to thrive in today’s competitive music industry.

Classes fill up fast.
Reserve your spot today!

Questions? Call us at (800) 386-6434, or email us at studio@Sweetwater.com

About Sweetwater Studios Workshops & Masterclasses

Many of the world’s greatest engineers and producers were coached by mentors in the moment, and they learned the trades and tackled new techniques in live studio sessions. Sweetwater Studios workshops and masterclasses give us a chance to carry on that tradition and to impart our industry knowledge in a real-world setting that’s informative, exciting, and accessible to anyone who’s passionate about making great recordings.

We’re honored to host incredible performers from a wide variety of genres, to employ professional instructors with years of experience and lengthy lists of credits, and to invite you to this hands-on and ears-on learning opportunity in our world-class, multi-studio facility.

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