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Essential free VST plugins kit
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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,…
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Finalizing bass in the mix
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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,…
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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…