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Harrison Mixbus: a “real” Ardour based mixing console
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These days I’m impressed with Mixbus by Harrison Consoles. So much that I’m seriously thinking about a purchasing (edit april 13th, 2013: didn’t resist, yesterday I purchased a license!). It’s a software version of famous Harrison Consoles, based on Ardour, the only powerful Open Source (just notice, I mean Open, not free, I think…
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Songwriting day and deadlines
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I really like to find always new goals. Especially in my music projects. To be honest I always try to put myself clear targets because I don’t like to take a stab in music, I couldn’t be calm enough to concentrate on my riffs. I need to know where I’m going. But I realized…
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Heavy guitar tone for dummies (with free plugins)
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While you’re recording your guitar during your home studio projects there’s something you want immediately right: your guitar tone. You want it aggressive, evil, distorted with great saturation and right EQ. What more? Nothing, the problem is that you have to render it as you’re actually thinking about it. That’s the hard part. Let’s…
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Ride your tracks
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While I’m mixing you can’t even imagine how many times my focus is broken by something to fix in the tracks: that kick drum hit that’s not so in time, an incertain bass note, a little vocal part slightly out of tune or other little issues that I can’t stand. Maybe it’s because of…
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Finalizing bass in the mix
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As you may already know, I’m a bass player, so I’m really careful when it’s time to mix the bass. Too many times some people have the idea to put the bass a little “behind” everything, but I think it’s quite important to put the bass where it deserves: everywhere. Don’t get me wrong,…