Mixing

  • The metal bass tone digest: useful videos

    The metal bass tone digest: useful videos

    Yes, I know, I could start writing about how cool your bass can sound if you follow my suggestions and stuff but you know what? I won’t. For the simple reason that everyone likes different sounds and everyone has a kind of taste, so, it’s simply impossible for me to tell you how to…

  • Producing a song with free plugins only

    Producing a song with free plugins only

    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…

  • Creating “mix groups” in Mixbus 3

    Creating “mix groups” in Mixbus 3

    Harrison Mixbus 3 has been released few days ago, even if on Windows systems it seems to be a little bit unstable (my Windows workstation keeps on crashing, I’ll wait for a fix release…), on Linux it works flawlessly, also thanks to the native Linux support for Ardour DAW (which is the “core” of…

  • Reaper JS plugins: amp-model

    Reaper JS plugins: amp-model

    The more I use Reaper the more I love how easy it is to get what you need working with it. Lately I was experimenting with some Jesusonic plugin (for any further information you can find everything on Cockos website). Jesusonic is a sort of programming language that let you “build” plugins from scratch,…

  • Essential free VST plugins kit

    Essential free VST plugins kit

    Some weeks ago I was asked this question: “Which are the most essential plugins (possibly free ones) to mix a song?“. To be honest, I was a little bit confused as I started thinking about strange psycho-acoustic tool to do weird things with audio tracks. Nothing like that. Actually, the answer is quite simple,…