• Merry Metal Chrstimas

    Merry Metal Chrstimas

    Within few days Christmas will arrive! I’d like to send you my best wishes for a great Christmas with your families and friends! The blog will be on vacation untill the end of the year, I hope to show you something new in 2013, to let you improve your skills in mixing and to…

  • Heavy bass sound with layered bass

    Heavy bass sound with layered bass

    As a bass player I have to make an acknowledgement: getting the right bass sound after a recording session is not as easy as it might seem. Someone could say: “Buy yourself a better bass guitar!” but I can guarantee that it’s not my case 😉 Keeping in mind that the most important thing…

  • Why the singer should be comfortable

    Why the singer should be comfortable

    A lot of people involved in audio recording tend to underrate an aspect during vocals recording sessions: the singer “play” a slightly different instrument than others. He definitely plays his body. Sometimes ago I read some lines of this excellent Mark Baxter‘s book: “The Rock-N-Roll Singer’s Survival Manual“. A real “must” for all singer,…

  • The Metal Month by Toontrack

    The Metal Month by Toontrack

    Toontrack is for sure one of the best company in VSTis plugins: EZDrummer, EZKeys, Superior and EZ Mix (just to name some of them) are with no doubt in the “top ten” of the most used plugins by both home users and pro. November 2012 has been the Toontrack “Metal Month”, many new products…

  • Drums VSTi plugins: quick comparison

    Drums VSTi plugins: quick comparison

    By now is real: writing songs with a good drums track is easier than some times ago. You don’t have to find a drummer, give him the songs to prepare, rent a studio, record everything with the right mic in the right place and then clean the tracks before mixing. Not anymore. You just…