Audio Engineering

  • 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…

  • Mind your volume

    Mind your volume

    Mixing at high volumes could lead you to very bad mixes, moreover listening at high volumes can break your ears (I mean it!) and, above all, the risk is to take the wrong decision for your mix. You have to consider two differt aspects: the volume of your monitors and the volume of you…

  • “I have no time”

    “I have no time”

    Do you know this sentence? Probably is the one that you’re continuing to repeat to yourself, after a long working day, you think about things you’d like to do but that you can’t finish because you just “have no time”. To be honest I always repeat it to myself, but trust me I’m trying…

  • Drums Parallel Compression

    Drums Parallel Compression

    Until some time ago, when I hear talking about “parallel compression” I was used to think about that concepts too hard to understand, due to the complexity of the topics. Really too much for my lazy mind. Really, it’s a very common technique, I’d rather say a “classic” one. The concet is simple: it’s…