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  • Performance and successful recording sessions

    Performance and successful recording sessions

    Finally, recordings for next Deimos‘ album entitled “Beyond” are closed. I’m definitely satisfied by the results. The sound is excellent and we couldn’t get better recording quality, everything is awesome. If there’s something I really learned form this experience is that the sound is not always given by the microphone you’re using, by its…

  • Best mixing plugin ever

    Best mixing plugin ever

    As I said some weeks ago, I’m very busy these days: Deimos new album recordings are completely filling all my spare time, so I still don’t have enough time to write, at least not the “quality” time I like to have when I want to write. It’s exactly in these kind of situation that…

  • Mixing practice, web resources

    Mixing practice, web resources

    Mix, mix, mix. This is what I’m continuously repeating myself these days, even if I can’t actually concentrate on mixing. These are very busy days and I’m struggling in search of time to mix: preliminar activities to recording sessions of next Deimos album are almost done, I’m also involved in other music project which…

  • Mixing Vocals: quick tips

    Mixing Vocals: quick tips

    When I started mixing some times ago, I tried to learn everything I could from the instrumental side of a mix, I always underrated vocals somehow, I was sure that vocals are just good as they are, that they don’t need anything in particular or any “fix” to sit right in the mix. Of…

  • Pre-production: the extra oomph of every music project

    Pre-production: the extra oomph of every music project

    Usually, when you’re happy with your songwriting, you can’t wait to press REC and start recording everything you wrote. There’s nothing better than listening to your work after all those efforts. However, it’s important to bear in mind that from songwriting to mastering there is a lot of actions and activities that must be…