Santo

  • USB Audio Interface for 100€

    USB Audio Interface for 100€

    Quick question: “What audio interface can I buy with 100€?“. At the moment you have some good devices to check out (even if the answer to this question have to be considered within a certain time frame, things are always evolving these days :D), you just need to understand what your needs are. Let’s…

  • Essential free VST plugins kit

    Essential free VST plugins kit

    Some weeks ago I was asked this question: “Which are the most essential plugins (possibly free ones) to mix a song?“. To be honest, I was a little bit confused as I started thinking about strange psycho-acoustic tool to do weird things with audio tracks. Nothing like that. Actually, the answer is quite simple,…

  • Mastering: free shelving EQ plugins

    Mastering: free shelving EQ plugins

    When it’s time to start with mastering we’re always in the middle of an inner struggle: avoid pushing immediately everything as loud as possible. This is something we know, we really do, but we hardly remember when it’s time to move knobs. The truth is that, as I told you in a previous post…

  • Judas (Helloween cover) – 5th Element

    Judas (Helloween cover) – 5th Element

    This is some kind of “promotional post”, but I’d like to share with you my latest work of mixing and mastering: “Judas” (Helloween) cover played by 5th Element with me on bass guitar. This is a completely re-recorded and re-mixed/re-mastered version of the same cover we released under Epicus Records in 2012 on the…

  • Mixing guitars: quick tips

    Mixing guitars: quick tips

    With this post I decided to go directly to the point, less talk, more mixing! 😉 Here you are some quick tips to le your heavy guitar shine in the mix, try them directly on your actual mix, as usual, there’s no real “rule” but I always apply these tips to my mixes and…