Abbey Road Institute Paris - Tom Lord Alge 

Get him to do a mix breakdown from a song off of Take Off Your Pants and Jacket!!!

This is CLA but happier and without the arrogance and attitude.

It's not the plugin, it's not the gear. It's how you use it - it's your ear. Man made a poem on the spot! xD Nice video!

TLA is way happier than CLA 😂

Perfect low end on his voice

22:48 It's not the plugin! It's not the gear! It's how you use it! It's your ear! BRILLIANT!!!)))

He pans his drums like a live engineer.. I like to pan the drums like your sitting behind them. His way would make it weird playing air drums to Tom Sawyer.. lol

"Here's a couple of clean hits for you so you can steal my samples" *Proceeds to speak over the hits so you can't actually steal them. Joking aside, this was very educative and I love TLA, so much heart and seems like a really nice guy!

Sir, not only are you an extremely blessed engineer, you’re a wonderful, generous clearly articulate teacher! G-d Bless you and thank you for sharing all your wonderful knowledge!

I thought this was some sort of Mandela effect thing at first.

How you get More low End TLA: more alcohol, more cigarettes

I just watched a 45min interview with CLA with Rick Beato and I had no idea that CLA had a brother. WTF what is the history of these two? how on earth did one family produce two legends?

A mixer like that would make you remain single for life

He still number one for rock.

Big consoles are making a come back thank goodness! Neve with the 88RS, SSL with their Duality consoles musicians start at home working in the box and end up in a big A-list studio with soffit mount monitors that are worth more than their house. I started out in lighting as well, but they didn't have those moving head lights or i7 core lighting consoles at the time. Just a little more evolved than lime lights with gels. I find if you work with what you have, you learn more. Use what you learn to make a little money and buy something new. After a while it's second nature, but you never stop learning something new. IF I help you get that SSL home, will you let me use it?

That song is amazing and the mix is f**** brilliant!

Awesome...Brillant !!! "more of 2 plugs on master fader > problem in mix".

had the pleasure of meeting Tom at NAMM, such a nice dude!

Very Pink Floyd influenced song for the demo.

"Winner winner, pigeon dinner"lol Thnx Tom!! Appreciate the output!!

Tips Timestamp 8:00 10:20 11:20

Tom is the man! amazing talent!

he's such a lovely man, and a beautiful master.

cla has 2 brothers tom and jeff. I assisted for tommy at encore studio s in burbank.

Nobody: Waves: Introducing the new TLA-76 Compressor

A good song, a good performance, ear and good gear = Glorious

TLA > CLA

Yess you mix with plugins when you’re at Abbey Road while the SSL is staring at you

The keeper of the vibe

That T-Racks Black 76 was given away by IK for free over Christmas 2019. Once I had it... it was my go to limiter on bus tracks. Yeah, it's a compressor, but I found it's best used as a hard limiter on busses. Good plugin.

What a great Dude!

holy crap. I love seeing people break teh rules (thou shalt only use 2-3 db of gain on the SLL bus comp) and make killer mixes. inspiring. Awesome track too, very Porcupine Tree.

Hello Tom.it sounds so great.I am thankful that you're demonstrate your approach. Makes me feel great as well because tricks like deessing drums ,low ratios etc are the stuff that I am also doing as foh live engineer. Great sounding tutorial, things that are so useful so thank you very much Tom!

I HONESTLY LOVE THE 2 SPECTRUMS AND THE 2 PERSONALITIES. I LEARN A LOT FROM THESES GUYS.

Amazing! ok I have to experiment more and more in my mixes

You Never get real secrets off RU-vid

The secret is in the belly. You get a beer belly like that ...your mixes will improve 100%🤷🏽‍♂️ EAT , MIX , REPEAT

Where’s the link to this tune love what I heard

TLA is so humble and always looks so joyful. He got a very different personality than CLA.

100% agree about gear being “meh”…I will, however, say that the IK SSL emulations are top shelf. About ten years ago, I used them on a pretty important record in my career and they sounded incredible. Very, shockingly faithful to the consoles. I’ve since shifted to the waves strips because the CPU hit is so much lighter. Maybe I’ll dust that stuff off at some point for busses or something. I don’t know if it’s changed but the one thing that used to suck about IK was its infrastructure…you had to buy “points” and get plugins through their “custom shop”. Hopefully they’ve done away with that 😑

I don't even think they, as brothers, talk.

Digital guy: Wat the fuck do all those knobs do, how do I even Analog guy: what the fuck do all those buttons do, how do I touch them

TLA is such a rad dude and a mixing legend

I love the deesser trick! I usually use a frequency side-chain HF cut EQ, often with a frequency specific compressor with just enough mix information to position it in separation to all frequencies above my cut limit. But using the deesser is brilliant; as it allows for high cut without subjecting frequencies below that threshold to any artifacts or coloration. Thanks, man!

I am a young mixing engineer, A goal of mine is to get a SSL 9000. One day.. one day, for now I gotta mix with what I got

@9:57 - "The picture is more vibrant" but now you have too much, too many choices that might not necessarily compliement each other. Paralysis by analysis syndrome. I went from 4 track to 8-track ADAT digital to 16 and of course to digital. There was something uniquely special in that pre-digital realm where you could get done faster. A lot of times now is spent on fixing a tech issue, like one that I just had where midi is triggering 2 notes on top of each other at the same time, and have to spend hours looking for a tech solution, or writing the DAW maker and waiting for a response. The spark of creating is dead when you have too much digital stuff going bad all the time. Not to say things didn't break in analog, but it was sure easier to get back running and recording. That said, digital offers tremendous opportunities. I just wish the computers, O/O systems, plugins, and DAWs were more reliable and worked seemlessly.

This interview is invaluable. What a smoking hot drum sound.

boy on that good dope

The drums sound amazing. Thanks for sharing

That advice to automate eq and roll off high end of toms only when on same beat as cymbals is 🤯

CLA does not like verb or ambience on shells or direct mics, so i wonder if they have arguments about that?

The track sounds like a nu metal version Pink Floyd.

"Weezer Ft kick" Green album, he mix, it nice sound!

Who gonna nick a sample from RU-vid? Come on TLA have some faith brother !

Great video! The drums work nicely because of their interaction with the bass sound. In my experience, no matter how great your drums sound on their own, if there is a weak bass sound, it just doesn't work as nicely.

I like this man 🙏like HIS Brother Very talented mixers...

Music is my dream world career and l shall accomplish it through Abbey Road Institute Paris.

Tom might want to look at the curve his TR5 One setting is generating on the masterbus. It's a large 5+ db boost at about 14 hz followed by a 2.5 db cut at 200 hz and a slight .5 db rise up to 20 khz. If you need that kind of rollercoaster curve on your master bus, you're mix needs more work.

I thought this was his brother until he said plug-ins are great

Something tells me Tom has more fun.

T-RAcks max is amazing.

TLA absolutely Rocks!!!

Love you Tom.

What a solid guy TLA is!

Great content. This helps us a lot

Love TLA! What a legend!

Thanks, Tom!

Hmmmm. Ian Dury...??

Tradusca los video al español

audio charmeleon

The tom toms tho

Where can I get these ambient samples?

Frickin brilliant

Amazing guy!!

Great tips from a world class pro

Bean?

Thank you!

Good gear takes the magic you have inside that you want to get out and gives it wings and a power jet engine.

Awesome stuff Tom - Mix sounds great!!

I close my eyes and see ray romanos brother.

Love the brother story.

Are you related to CLA ?

Love it...Thank you so much !!!

you know

Well done Tom! Very inspiring.

Absolutely Great

IS CHRIS LORD ALGE AND TOM LORD ALGE ARE BROTHERS ??

Sick.

What he used on masterbuss ?

Isn't the title mixing/recording/audio engineer somehow protected by law in th US ? In germany it's prohibited to name on audio engineer without having a master at some university and there big fines if you do it nonetheless. Just asking. No strings attached.

Eh that snare sounds like ass.

Holy shit, that hair. Dude, youre what, 60? White mohawk/bald combo is bad. Accept your fate and shave that head! xD looooool

I love how he thinks someone is going to want his verby snare samples. I bet anyone who watched this have 30,000 snares on their computer already, including 5 of these. ;). All respect given, the true secret is to be in the right time at the right place, be willing to do grunt work and deal with egoic idiots for a while and then doink around with EQ/Compression for a few years, and voila! I bet their are audio grads who have 10X the technique this guy has, but not the industry connections or the developed ears for what is professionally acceptable.