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  • 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…

  • Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving Day is one of the most important holidays in Anglo-Saxon countries (and not only). A day to think about and be grateful for everything you got in your life and for people you feel always by your side. Just to clarify, I’m not from USA or country where they celebrate this day, I’m…

  • Hydrogen: best free drum machine ever

    Hydrogen: best free drum machine ever

    As most of you already know, I really like the world of open source software and Linux. During last years things have changed for producers: you can find on the internet extremely powerful Linux multimedia distributions, focused and well packed for this particular purpose, to let people make music, for free. The existence of…