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If there's one question I get all the time from the guys at VDSS Academy, it's: "Filippo, what headphones should I buy for mixing and mastering in my home studio?" The engineer's answer is that there is no magic headset. There is the correct electromechanical coupling between the transducer (the headphone) and the amplification stage, combined with the characteristics of your room. If you spend €1,500 on a pair of high-impedance headphones and plug them into the unbalanced ou
Achieving a professional mix isn't a matter of budget, but of consistent choices and workflow. You don't have to empty your bank account to buy the most expensive VST hardware emulations on the market. The final result always depends on how you organize the instruments in your DAW and how you set the levels before exporting. Whether you’re working with Studio One, Logic Pro, Ableton, or FL Studio, this definitive guide rounds up the best free mixing and mastering plugins that
You can buy the best converters in the world and the most esoteric plugins, but if your speakers are positioned poorly, you are mixing blind. Or rather, deaf. I often see home studios packed with incredible gear where the monitors are just placed randomly on the desk, maybe one further forward and the other further back. Then, when the mix sounds unbalanced or lacks bass in the car, people blame the software or the audio interface. I'm not going to tell you I have a magic wan