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  • Don’t put barriers to ideas

    Don’t put barriers to ideas

    Sometimes we just forget why we’re all so excited in music production: at the end of the day what really matters is music. Too many times we struggle thinking about everything around this business but we’re quite missing the point: it’s just music, not a car or a blender. We’re talking about business, ok,…

  • Mid/Side Processing

    Mid/Side Processing

    If there’s something I learned during last years is that mastering is a complex process, it can determine heavily your final results. Maybe you can think it’s just a matter of perceived “volume”, but it’s not like that. As well as being a tricky process, it need some particular skills that can be obtained…

  • Free guitar amp simulators comparison

    Free guitar amp simulators comparison

    Guitar amp simultation plugins state of the art is really polished, I mean high level quality: major amplifier production companies have developed “virtual versions” of their best models. The use of these plugins instead of real amps is becoming more and more common, especially in home productions, thanks to low costs. Even if I…

  • My mix for the Feared Mixing Competition

    My mix for the Feared Mixing Competition

    My mix for the FEARED mixing competition is online on Youtube! If you likt please share the video on your social networks and leave me a comment on Youtube! I decided to put a “challenge in the challenge” for this contest: I mixed everything using just free plugins, the result is in the video…

  • “Less is more”

    “Less is more”

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has been one of the most important architects of the modern movement. He gave the the world not only lots of architecture masterpieces but also lots of aphorisms. The most known one is for sure “less is more“. If we apply the aphorism to everyday life we find out…