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Producing a song with free plugins only
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It’s been a while that I’m thinking about producing an entire song with just free plugins. I’m not talking about mixing and mastering only, I mean also songwriting: vst instruments, guitar and bass amp simulators, drum samples. I already did an entire mix using just free plugins, you can achieve very good results, free…
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Mastering: free shelving EQ plugins
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When it’s time to start with mastering we’re always in the middle of an inner struggle: avoid pushing immediately everything as loud as possible. This is something we know, we really do, but we hardly remember when it’s time to move knobs. The truth is that, as I told you in a previous post…
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Judas (Helloween cover) – 5th Element
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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…
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Mid/Side Processing
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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…
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My mix for the Feared Mixing Competition
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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…