Grammy-winning mixing engineer Chris Lord-Alge and Waves have teamed up to create the Chris Lord-Alge Artist Signature Collection ($830) of audio plugins. This bundle delivers Lord-Alge's clean, radio-ready sound to any track, via six application-specific plugins: CLA Bass, CLA Drums, CLA Effects, CLA Vocals, CLA Guitars, and CLA Unplugged.

CLA Bass was designed to help you create a solid foundation for any song. Its six essential effects include bass, treble, compression, sub, distortion, and chorus / flange.

Get a great drum sound from CLA Drums, which sports six different modes: Kick, Snare, Toms, Overheads, Room, and Cowbell. This plugin features color-coded presets for bass EQ, treble EQ, compression, and reverb, plus noise gate and faders that let you control the amount of each effect. Its phase switch helps you find the best setting for the kit.

CLA Effects is the go-to plugin for any kind of effect, from filtered vocals, telephone FX, vocal distortion, and multiple delays with tape phasing to reverb, tape slap, long echos, echo throw, and much more. All tempos are matched to the session BPM.

The CLA Vocals plugin is said to work well with all singing styles and provide just the right amount of bass, treble, compression, reverb, delay, and chorusing / doubling.

Lord-Alge would have liked to have called CLA Guitars the Instant Gratification plugin. He describes it as a guitar toolbox with all the necessary combinations, that delivers quickly and easily the guitar sounds he has used on tracks from Green Day to Daughtry. The plugin features three modes -- Clean, Crunch, and Heavy -- with DI and Re-amping modes for each. Color-coded presets are also included for bass, treble, compression, reverb, delay, and chorusing / doubling.

Lastly, CLA Unplugged is said to be a dream box of reverb effects plus great hi-resolution EQ and compression for complex sounds. Use this plugin on vocals, strings, piano, acoustic guitars, and nylon-guitar solos.

The Chris Lord-Alge Artist Signature Collection is now available in Native formats from waves.com.