CLA Vocals

The deal

$39.99 at Waves (down from $149, a 73% discount). No coupon code needed, the price is already discounted at checkout. Waves rotates its sale pricing regularly, so there's no fixed end date, but it's worth grabbing while it's live.

What it is

CLA Vocals is a vocal channel strip built in collaboration with Grammy-winning mixer Chris Lord-Alge, combining a gate, dual compressors, EQ, de-esser, saturation-based tone shaping, and a doubler into one signal chain. It's designed to recreate the radio-ready rock vocal sound CLA has used on records for Green Day, James Blunt, and Stone Temple Pilots. The result is an upfront, polished vocal with controlled dynamics and added width, dialed in from a handful of macro controls instead of stacking separate plugins.

Who it's for

Mix engineers and home producers working on rock, pop, or alternative vocals who want CLA's signature vocal sound without assembling it from individual compressors and EQs. It's built for anyone who wants a fast, all-in-one starting point on a lead vocal that still leaves room to fine-tune each stage.

Key features

• Combines a gate, two compressors, EQ, de-esser, saturation, and doubling in a single vocal channel strip
• Modeled directly on Chris Lord-Alge's own vocal mixing chain from hit rock and pop records
• Tone Shaper stage adds analog-style saturation and harmonic character to vocals
• Built-in doubler thickens a vocal without needing a second take