With so many SSL Bus Compressor emulations out there ranging from free to hundreds of dollars (not counting hardware expenses in the case of UAD), I felt it was time to see how they compare sound-wise.
I hope it helps. Enjoy!
 

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Yeah, I am an API lover… it's my go-to EQ and bus compressor.
In this video, you'll hear some of the API EQ emulations out there.
You can download the screenshot of the EQ curves here
Enjoy!
 

That's the last song from Thiago's session I posted a few weeks ago.
Enjoy!

Alright,
Although I missed posting the individual singles when they came out, here is the post for the release of the full EP we started recording over 3 years ago!
I'm happy it's out there in the world!
I hope you all enjoy it!
 

Canadian band The Superstitions has a new single out (actually it came out about a month ago, oops) and it's called "What's Left Of Me".
You can read more about the recordings here
Enjoy!
 

I had the pleasure to mix the music of "Journey Across Raava"'s trailer
Enjoy!
PS.: You can play the web puzzle game here
 

This is a good one, mainly because I was part of the whole process, from rehearsal, to tracking, mixing and mastering AND because it is NOT my typical rock/metal type of project that you see here often.
We tracked the song's rhythm section live and Hotel2Tango in Montreal, overdubs were made at Music Salad's studio, and all that in just a few weeks, from start to finish.
I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did!

That's another song with Thiago Castro on the drums, from the same session I posted a few weeks ago.
Enjoy!

I'm happy to be able to mention that mixed the music for a game I called “Towers Of Thana” and it's going into Steam's Early Access next week (August 21st, 2023)
I gotta thank the team at Tryptique Audio for trusting me once again with their art.
Here is the trailer for your enjoyment.

A couple of weeks ago I got to mix this great performance of Sepultura's “Territory” from Brazilian drummer Thiago Castro.
Check it out.

The Helios 69 is one of my favorite UAD emulations (I've been using it since their “Legacy” Helios strip) and a while ago I bought Acustica Audio's take on the Helios 69, called Viridian.

Then I started using Analog Obsession's HLE-SE free take on the same EQ and a couple of days ago, Lindell Audio put out their 69 Channel Strip which I was really looking forward to trying.

The EQ curves do not match between those 4 plugins, some of them a VERY different, some of them a pretty close but I am certain you will hear the differences between them, even going through Youtube's audio compression.

Let me know your thoughts in the video comments!

This is a new mix for the official release of “Peanut Butter”

You can listen to the single on all digital platforms.

Enjoy!

And if you want to know more about the recording, I made a post about it a few months ago, just click here to read it.

Last year I had the pleasure to spend an afternoon inside a normal rehearsal room  with some extra-talented musician friends (Thiago Castro on Drums, Lucas Barnery on Guitar, and Thiago Baumgarten on Bass) and that afternoon generated two awesome tunes, this one linked below and a fully live jam, named “Peanut Butter” 
 

A couple of weeks ago we spent a Sunday recording instrumentals of 7 tunes for  Brazilian Garage Rock band “Canto Torto”.

Click to read about the setup
 

A few days ago I did a quick comparison between some of my favorite API 2500 emulations available today (I totally forgot to add the Lindell version).

Take a listen and let me know your thoughts in the video comments section on YouTube.

Enjoy,

I totally forgot to mention that Luc St-Pierre's soundtrack for Ubisoft's For Honor, is out now. The album is called “Lost Horizons” mixed by yours truly and mastered by Richard Addison once again.

Enjoy

A few months ago I went to a rehearsal room with three long-time friends and amazing musicians from Salvador, Bahia - Brazil.
They jammed for a few hours and two songs came out of that jam. This is one of those songs.
The setup was pretty simple:
Universal Audio Apollo x8p and another silver face Apollo.
All tracks were recorded through API Legacy strips and Studer A800 tape, all committed to the recording.
No samples were used.
The guitar was recorded direct via a Kemper and the bass was also recorded direct, no amps in the room.
Enjoy,

Hi there,

This was supposed to be part of a mix contest that I did not have the time to submit to (nor do I believe in mix contests), so I just mixed it for fun, so I don't have anything to do with the recordings (they do sound great though)

I'm using mostly native Universal Audio plugins (just a couple of DSP-based ones), no samples, all from the multi-tracks (actually, the kick is from an Alesis D4) 

Enjoy

Welcome to 2023,
The first release of the year comes out as a single of an EP I had the pleasure to play drums for, and engineer the recordings for the rest of the instrumentals during the pandemic.
Tracks were mixed and mastered using UA's LUNA.
Drums were tracked in a low-ceiling basement using a UA Apollo x8p with 8 channels of API Legacy strips via UNISON. Tracks were EQ'd and compressed "to tape".
- RE20 on the kick
- i5 on the snare
- 421 for toms and floor toms
- Ribbons for overheads
Guitars were recorded through an amp and DI, the same for the bass tracks with the added Darkglass B7K (main bass tone) track. 
I hope you enjoy it!

Earlier this year I had the immense task of editing and mixing the voice-over recordings for WB Games Montreal's "Gotham Knights".

The recordings have been previously processed by someone else but the team was not satisfied with the results and asked me to try another take with those files (over 80 THOUSAND lines of dialog).

After some back-and-forth collaboration with the audio team, we got to a place we were all happy with the quality and I started speeding up the process which took a couple of months of work to finish.

I feel honored to have been trusted with such an important part of the project and I can't wait to hear it in the game (whenever I have time to play it)

Cheers