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Chris Lord-Alge
Mixer
Chris Lord-Alge
Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums including Bad Religion's No Substance, Darren Hayes' Spin, Quietdrive's "When All That's Left Is You" and Underoath's Define the Great Line, Family Force 5's Business Up Front, Party In The Back, Rise Against's The Sufferer & the Witness, The Used's Lies for the Liars, Blindside's About A Burning Fire, AFI's Decemberunderground, P.O.D.'s Testify. He has also mixed most of Green Day's albums, including Nimrod and American Idiot. Saosin's Voices, Senses Fail's Still Searching, My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, The Rocket Summer's Do You Feel, and Jack's Mannequin's Everything In Transit, The Glass Passenger and Stevie Nicks' Trouble in Shangri-La. Most recently he mixed the new Sum 41 album, released on 24 July 2007, named Underclass Hero and also mixed the single Hero/Heroine by Boys Like Girls. Other artists he has mixed for is: Toby Mac, Tait, Switchfoot.

Lord-Alge mixed the 2007 album Send Away The Tigers by the British rock band Manic Street Preachers.
He did a mix of the song "Beating Hearts Baby" by Head Automatica on their album Popaganda.
He mixed Simple Plan's third studio album released in February 2008.

Many consider him to be an engineer that typically likes to overcompress everything to the extreme, which he seems to relish in considering the name of his rental company.

Chris Lord-Alge gained notoriety while working at Unique Recording Studios, NYC in the 1980's for his mixing on James Brown's Gravity album "Living In America", Rocky IV Soundtrack, Beat Street Soundtrack, Prince's Batman Sound Track, Joe Cocker's "Unchain My Heart" album, Chaka Kahn's Destiny album, Carly Simon's Coming Around Again album, Tina Turner's Foreign Affair album and 12" remixes of Madonna's "Isla Bonita", Rolling Stone's "Too Much Blood" and Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", "Cover Me", and "Born in the U.S.A.".

To view literally hundreds of titles Chris has worked on, check out his artist page on ArtistDirect.com.

Chris's Favorite Gear

1.
Focusrite Red 3 and a pair of Pultec EQP1A across mix buss. Pultecs give an SSL the low end of a Neve. Neve eq's alone, don't give the broad low end a Pultec provides.
2.
Blue stripe 1176 on lead vocals.
3.
Inward Connections Vac Rac TSL3 compressor/limiter on backing vocals. "Inward Connections limiters are kind of like old Fairchilds. They have two knobs and one setting: stun. You just insert and go."
4.
Bank of Manley Pultecs on drums
5.
Fresh, recapped 1176 blackface vintage on bass guitar
6.
Pye comp/lim accross stereo drum room mics, 2/1 ratio, set for aggressive squashing
7.
LA3's for main pair of Electric/Acoustic guitars
8.
Old Sony RE2000 reverb on drums
9.
480 for main reverb
10.
Line 6 echo pro vocal and main delays
11.
Recording Kick: Fet 47 double padded, Neve 1073, Pultec EQP1A, DBX160vu tapping red LED, subtly
12.
Recording Snare: Shure SM57, same chain as Kick, with 10db extra pad, with a bump of boost on 100 and 5k
13.
Mic above drummer's head, use U67 or U47, straight into console, sometimes 180 degrees out of phase, gives a nice Zeppelin feel to kick and snare, so not so isolated and direct sounding.
14.
Retro 176 Limiting Amplifier: "Phil Moore did a great job! Bill Putnam would smile!!! The Retro 176 has become my first choice for lead vocals It now stands alone at the finish line! "

 

 
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