• Heavy guitar tone for dummies (with free plugins)

    Heavy guitar tone for dummies (with free plugins)

    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…

  • Ride your tracks

    Ride your tracks

    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…

  • Finalizing bass in the mix

    Finalizing bass in the mix

    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,…

  • The multiple listening proof

    The multiple listening proof

    Sometimes ago I watched a great interview to multiple Grammy award winning mixer Chris Lord Alge. His mixing work is simply great, he has the experience and the skills of a real genius of mixing, he’s the guy to follow, you can learn lots of things simply listening to his words during an interview.…

  • Drum replacement in Reaper

    Drum replacement in Reaper

    In heavy metal production the sound of your drums could really affect the overall mix. Sometimes it happens that you can’t reach the sound you’re looking for during your recording sessions, maybe because you didn’t realize what was the problem during the recordings or just because you don’t have enough time to tweak your…