Today I want to share with you the latest update on my tribute to Katri Helena project. As you may know, I'm a huge fan of her music and I've been working on a classical guitar cover of one of…

Today I'm going to show you how good a perception machine your brain is, and how it perceives space, direction, and distance just by what you are hearing. 

You'll learn how music producers use this knowledge to make music sound…

Today I want to share with you a way to be more productive: start with the end in mind.

It’s a simple but powerful concept. It’s like setting the destination on your satnav or GPS before you start driving.

In…

I hope you are well and having a wonderful day.

When you make cover versions of songs with full orchestration, then you need to play most if not all the instruments in a band. Drums, the bass, guitars… and the…

I'm mixing a song called Spendaa by a Finnish rapper Souce today. It has quite a dense arrangement and there's a lot going on, and the bass is slightly buried and masked under the other instruments to begin with.

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I am making a classical guitar instrumental cover version of a song called Oasis, to brighten your day! 🎸☀️

Today I was mastering the song and needed to manage the dynamics of the song with some pre-effects volume automation.

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Today I was mastering a song called L’italiano, which is one of the songs on my debut EP. I'm making a classical guitar instrumental cover version of the song, to brighten your day!

I’m going to show you how the…

Today I was mixing a song called Maledetta primavera, which is one of the songs on my debut EP. 
I'm making a classical guitar instrumental cover version of the song, to brighten your day!

The mix is nearly done, but…

Today I was mixing a song called Maledetta primavera, which is one of the songs on my debut EP.
I'm making a classical guitar instrumental cover version of the song, to brighten your day!

I learned some time ago that…

Today I was mixing a song called Oasis, which is one of the songs on my debut EP.
I'm making a classical guitar instrumental cover version of the song, to brighten your day!

Quite often there's an instrument in the…

Today I was mixing Guarda che luna and was having a bit of a hard time getting the sax solo to sit in the mix well. The sax sounds great on its own, but in the mix it sounds too…

I was mixing the song called Oasis today and did something I want to share with you.

It's a very subtle mixing move but it has a big impact.

The mix with no effects used, just volume faders, panning, EQ…

Sometimes taking one step back can help you to move three steps forward!

I was mixing Guarda che luna when I decided that I needed to get a better saxophone solo. Back to recording!

I went online and looked for…

The sense of achievement can be quite addictive even in small doses.

I got the 80% mixes done of Oasis and Maledetta Primavera.
That's a small achievement, isn't it?

I hope to keep seeing you around.
Have a wonderful day…

When you have a lot to work on, it can be hard to stay focused and making progress.

Systems help me.

Mixing five songs is a lot of work, but I love it! ❤️
I mix the songs in parallel,…

I was tempted to fix my out-of-tune guitar track in the mixing.
I chose to fix it at the source, which means that I re-recorded the entire lead guitar part. 🎸

👉 Watch the video to hear how the guitar…

Today I'm going to share with you a common dilemma in mixing.
One of the recorded tracks is a lead guitar which is out of tune.
To mix or not to mix, that is the question!

👉 Watch the video…

Today I continued mixing Guarda che luna, which is one of my upcoming EP songs.

Last time you saw how I did a Static mix of the song, and today I’ll show you how the next stage, called an 80%…

Mixing my EP songs is ON!

Work in progress: four songs Static mixes created
Two songs advanced to the 80% mixes, two more to go

Last week I asked you to help me to test if changing the strings of my guitar was worth it or not. Thank you for your responses given on my website, on YouTube and on Facebook!

Before arriving at a…

Today I’m starting to mix Guarda che luna, which is one of the upcoming EP songs. The goal of mixing is to find a good balance of all the recorded instruments and make the song more engaging to the listener…

I was getting ready for recording the lead guitar for my EP songs when I remembered an old piece of advice: always change the strings of your guitar before recording.

The assumption is that fresh strings sound better than old…

Tracking lead guitars for four of the EP songs 🎸

This completes the Recording phase, next phase: Mixing 💥

#studiolife #musicproduction #homerecording #classicalguitar

Music I made when recording the songs for my upcoming EP last week or so.

• Electric guitar for L'italiano, to add energy to the chorus.
• Acoustic background guitar for Oasis, to add texture and support for the bass and drums.
• …

Today I’m working on my piano for the song “Maledetta Primavera”.

I’m using a layering technique to get my piano closer to the piano of the original version of the song back in the 80’s.

Let’s see how that works!…