Waves Audio CLA Guitars User Guide

WAVES
CLA GUITARS
USER GUIDE

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction................................................................................................- 3 -
1.1 Welcome..............................................................................................................- 3 -
1.2 Product Overview................................................................................................- 3 -
1.3 Concepts and Terminology..................................................................................- 4 -
1.4 A Few Words from CLA.......................................................................................- 5 -
1.5 Components........................................................................................................- 5 -
Chapter 2 – Quickstart Guide............................................................................................6
Chapter 3 – Interface and Controls...................................................................................7
3.1 Interface...................................................................................................................7
3.2 Controls...................................................................................................................8
Chapter 4 – The WaveSystem........................................................................................14
4.1 The WaveSystem Toolbar.....................................................................................14
4.2 Preset Handling.....................................................................................................14
4.3 Interface Controls..................................................................................................16
4.4 Waves Preferences (Pro Tools only).....................................................................18
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Chapter 1 – Introduction

1.1 Welcome

Thank you for choosing Waves! In order to get the most out of your Waves processor, please take
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1.2 Product Overview

The Waves Artist Signature Series is our exclusive line of application-specific audio processors, mixing engineers. Every Signature Series plug-in has been precision-crafted to capture the artist’s distinct sound and production style. For experienced and aspiring audio professionals alike, the Waves Signature Series allows you to dial up the sound you’re looking for quickly, without interrupting the creative flow.
The CLA Artist Collection consists of six plug-ins, each of which is designed to handle a specific mixing task.
CLA Vocals
CLA Drums
CLA Bass
CLA Guitars
CLA Unplugged
CLA Effects
the time to read through this manual.
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1.3 Concepts and Terminology

Sensitivity Control/Sensitivity LED
The Sensitivity LED’s 3 colors indicate when appropriate levels are reached:
Led Off (too low) Green (good) Yellow (optimal) Red (very hot)
If the LED is off during playback, your input signa upwards until the LED lights up. We recommend adjusting the Sensitivity Control as soon as you open the plug-in, using the section of your song with the highest peaks for best results.
In most cases, the Sensitivity LED indicates that your levels hit the processor in a way that will give you the intended output optimal results for your source material may be achieved even when the Sensitivity LED does not display “optimal” levels (yellow). As always, trust your ears.
result. However, it’s important to keep in mind that
Modes
CLA Guitars plug-in features guitar Modes which address the most common guitar flavors: Clean, Crunch, Heavy, and Bypass.
l is too low. Push the Sensitivity Control
Re-Amplify
The CLA Guitars plug-in was designed to process guitars that were recorded either by mic'ing an a record a DI (direct injection) signal in parallel to the microphone/amp signal. This offers the opportunity to “re-amplify” the source using a different amp than the original. CLA Guitars includes a unique Re-Amplify feature, which activates a modeled guitar amp selected especially for each Guitar Mode. If your source is a mic'ed amplifier, however, you’ll want to keep the Re-Amplify function set to Off.
Re-Amplfy also causes the guitar Modes to function differently, depending on whether it is on or off:
When Re-Amplify is off, the Modes refer to the type of recorded material. Choose
mp or direct (DI). When recording electric guitars, it is a common practice to
clean if you have a clean recorded guitar, crunch if you have a crunchy guitar sound, etc.
When Re-Amplify is on, the Modes refer to the desired result. Choose clean if you want a clean sounding guitar, heavy if you want a heavy guitar sound, etc.
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Color
Each fader on CLA Artist Signature Collection plug-ins controls a specific function, such as compression or reverb. Each function has a color-coded selector which controls th internal characteristics of that function, resulting in a different sound character or “Color.” You can mix and match different colors across the different faders.
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1.4 A Few Words from CLA

"Two words describe the CLA Guitar my axe, I just can’t stop playing! It delivers the guitar sounds I’ve used on tracks from Green Day to Daughtry, quickly and easily. It’s like a guitar toolbox with all the necessary combinations. The plug-in features three modes—Clean, Crunch, and Heavy—with DI and Re-amping modes for each. You get three color-coded presets for the six most important effects, for the perfect blend of bass, treble, compression, reverb, delay, and chorusing/doubling."
s plug-in: Instant Gratification. Every time I plug in

1.5 Components

WaveShell technology enables us to split Waves processors into smaller plug-ins, which we call you the flexibility to choose the configuration best suited to your material.
The Waves CLA Guitars has two components:
components. Having a choice of components for a particular processor gives
CLA Guitars Mono-to-Stereo – Mono in to Stereo out component
CLA Guitars Stereo – Stereo in to Stereo out component
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Chapter 2 – Quickstart Guide

Insert the CLA Guitars plug-in on a guitar track.
Select the desired Guitar Mode, and turn on Re-Amplify, if needed.
Adjust the Sensitivity control until you achieve proper levels, as indicated by the
Sensitivity LED and the input meter.
The current plug-in setting now represents Chris's default setup.
Tweak the following controls to fit your mix:
Adjust the Bass and Treble faders if additional EQ is desired. Toggle through the Colors to fin
Use Compress for dynamic range control. Toggle through the Colors to find that which works best for the song.
Adjust Reverb, Delay and Pitch effect levels. Toggle through the Colors to find
that which works best for
Please note:
When all colors are set to clear (Bypass/Mute), some fixed processing as designed by Chris is st
EQ adjustment will take effect once the EQ faders are moved. At zero, cycling
through the EQ Colors will have no effect.
All other faders are active and set to Chris' default setup when at zero
> If the Output meter goes into the red, use the Ouput fader to lower the Output level.
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works best for the song.
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