Chris Lord-Alge

Chris Lord-Alge is an American mix engineer. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge and Jeff Lord-Alge, both of whom are also audio engineers. Chris and Tom are known for their abundant use of dynamic compression for molding mixes which play well on small speakers and FM radio. Chris frequently collaborates with Howard Benson, who has produced the plurality of his mix discography.

Career
Chris Lord-Alge worked at Unique Recording Studios at 20 Times Square in Manhattan in the 1980s. While there, he earned recognition for mixing James Brown's Gravity album (which included the hit song "Living in America"), the Rocky IV soundtrack, Prince's Batman soundtrack, Joe Cocker's Unchain My Heart album, Chaka Khan's Destiny album, Carly Simon's Coming Around Again album, Tina Turner's Foreign Affair album as well as 12" remixes of Madonna's "La Isla Bonita", and the Rolling Stones' "Too Much Blood". He mixed 12" remixes of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", "Cover Me", and "Born in the U.S.A.". In 1989-1990, Chris and his brother Jeff collaborated on the Oingo Boingo album Dark at the End of the Tunnel, with Jeff and Bill Jackson recording and Chris Lord-Alge mixing.

Chris Lord-Alge continued to mix for Turner throughout the 90's. During that time he provided mixing for Neil Diamond's Tennessee Moon. In 1997, he mixed Green Day's Nimrod, marking the beginning of a continued relationship with the band. He mixed the band's Grammy-winning albums American Idiot (2004) and 21st Century Breakdown (2009).

During the 2000s Lord-Alge worked prolifically for other pop punk bands, mixing for Billy Talent, Simple Plan, and My Chemical Romance. In the 2010's, Lord-Alge mixed on Celine Dion's Loved Me Back to Life, her first album after a seven-year hiatus, as well as Muse's The 2nd Law which was a foray into more electronic textures. Like Chris, Tom Lord-Alge, his brother, is well known for his extensive use of compression in mix down as both a creative and functional technique.

Partnership with Waves Audio
In early 2010, Waves Audio released the "CLA Artist Signature Collection", a collection of six application-specific audio plug-ins for vocals, drums, bass, guitar. The bass and guitar plug-ins are called "unplugged" (designed for acoustic elements) and "effects" (a collection of six different effects). Waves previously released a bundle of CLA-branded compressors, featuring the CLA-76 (UREI 1176LN), CLA-2A (Teletronix LA-2A) and CLA-3A (UREI LA-3A). They are among Lord-Alge's favorite dynamics units.