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  • Outerburst: debut release date and special guests

    Outerburst: debut release date and special guests

    During last few days I spent my time mixing and mastering some Outerburst songs. The outcome really makes me happy, I had the luck and pleasure to work with great musicians and their performance perfectly fits in the mix like pieces of the same puzzle, when musicians really know what they’re doing everything is…

  • Outerburst: sneak peek

    Outerburst: sneak peek

    Things are moving forward as of production with Outerburst. Honestly, I hoped to work faster on vocal melodies songwriting but I managed to complete all the lines just few weeks ago. Anyway I’m near to the end of production! Below you can have a look to a quick sneak peek of next Outerburst mini…

  • 5th Element – Hiroshima (Gary Moore cover)

    5th Element – Hiroshima (Gary Moore cover)

    I rarely use my blog for “self promotion” but sometimes I just can’t do without it, especially when I’m really proud of what I’ve done. Sometimes ago we decided with 5th Element project to produce a very important cover for all of us, with a deep meaning, to pay our tribute to one of…

  • Producing a song with free plugins only

    Producing a song with free plugins only

    It’s been a while that I’m thinking about producing an entire song with just free plugins. I’m not talking about mixing and mastering only, I mean also songwriting: vst instruments, guitar and bass amp simulators, drum samples. I already did an entire mix using just free plugins, you can achieve very good results, free…

  • Creating “mix groups” in Mixbus 3

    Creating “mix groups” in Mixbus 3

    Harrison Mixbus 3 has been released few days ago, even if on Windows systems it seems to be a little bit unstable (my Windows workstation keeps on crashing, I’ll wait for a fix release…), on Linux it works flawlessly, also thanks to the native Linux support for Ardour DAW (which is the “core” of…