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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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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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Heavy guitar tone for dummies (with free plugins)
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While you’re recording your guitar during your home studio projects there’s something you want immediately right: your guitar tone. You want it aggressive, evil, distorted with great saturation and right EQ. What more? Nothing, the problem is that you have to render it as you’re actually thinking about it. That’s the hard part. Let’s…
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Heavy bass sound with layered bass
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As a bass player I have to make an acknowledgement: getting the right bass sound after a recording session is not as easy as it might seem. Someone could say: “Buy yourself a better bass guitar!” but I can guarantee that it’s not my case 😉 Keeping in mind that the most important thing…