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Mixing in Mono
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Using the pan knob on your DAW during mixing is one of the best thing you can do to start placing tracks in their right place, getting always wider mixes. In fact, is one of the first thing you should do in the preliminary phases of your mixing sessions. Said that, did you ever…
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How to mic a Guitar amp cabinet
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Let’s talk about how you can mic your guitar amp. First of all, keep in mind that you don’t have to crank up the volume to the max to obtain a good sound, what’s important is the “sound” itself. Focus on your tone rather than the volume. During your recordings you don’t need to…
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Compressor parameters
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A compressor is an effect that reduce the volume of louder parts of a track, when the signal exceeds a particular level, based on some parameters. To keep it simple, it “compress” the dynamics of a track, making it more regular. I always used compressor during my mixing, but I admit that it’s not…
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Do dimensions matter?
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During your home recoring, to obtain a thick, great kick asses guitar sound you need a full stack head + 4×12 cabinet and push it to the limit right? Wrong! We can say that it’s not mandatory to have an expensive amp with very-evil distortion channel. If you have it, good, but if you…
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Linux and FREE audio plugins
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After years of hard work and successful development there are still few persons aware that is possible to produce music of great and professional quality with Linux. What all people know is the hard work to set up a pc to make it a Linux based DAW, but, even if it’s still not so…