• Judas (Helloween cover) – 5th Element

    Judas (Helloween cover) – 5th Element

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    Santo

    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

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    Santo

    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

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    Santo

    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

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    Santo

    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…

  • Performance and successful recording sessions

    Performance and successful recording sessions

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    Santo

    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…