"This Is What They Call Rock'n'Roll" by guitar player and producer Ruggero Catania available on Bandcamp

I always wanted to be able to write a song shorter than 1'30". 
This song has been sleeping in my hard drive for years.

But today the weather is hot and so am I. Enjoy

   

Il catalogo di Lady Lovely label è su Soundcloud. Cosa aspetti?

When a nerd site such as Recording Revolution turns into a sweet Spotify Playlist

This is a special playlist. One of the uncountable audio-musician nerds site I opted in member, had the idea.
It means, you will not find radio-hits, but a lot of pretty indie home made and hand crafted tracks by people still searching, learning and trying, instead.
Some are pretty cool. I love the attitude.
I've just added some 3 songs I mixed: The Leading Guy​, Magnetica Leoni​ and Betzy​.

"Guitars for Theater" - Pink Floyd "Mother" for guitar solo - Ruggero Catania

I arranged this precious song by Pink Floyd for the theater play "Do You Wanna Play With Me" by Sylvie Landuyt.
It is the first song of my "Guitars for Theater" series, which will include guitar arrangements taken from 3 different plays I was involved in the last 4 or 5 years in Belgium.
Please enjoy, and don't forget to like, subscribe the channel and share if you like this one!
Feedback is important, for real.
Love.

Romano Nervoso tickets 50% OFF this week & New Videoclip OUT NOW!

My Belgian band Romano Nervoso realised the new clip last week.
We're offering a 50% discount for the Lessines gig next Friday.
Drop me a line at ru@ladylovely.it with the promo code: CHITARRA NERVOSA.
Enjoy!

Magnetica Leoni plays "I Am The Fly" by punk - new wave band Wire

I recently mixed this one for the cloud-based collective Magnetica Leoni.
Be sure to join the journey on our Facebook Page and to Add us on your Spotify.

Magnetica Leoni - New song on Spotify!

Thanks to our label Lady Lovely we're on Spotify!
Add it to your playlist!

Magnetica Leoni - Delirium (from LCD Soundsystem to !!! - Chk Chk Chk)

I produced that song for Magnetica Leoni.
All production and mixing stage has been done ITB in Studio One 3.
I used most of all the Slate Digital Everything Bundle.
The mastering stage of the good friend of mine Mauro Andreolli was crucial.

Turn up the volume and enjoy!!

Magnetica Leoni - The Good One - Available on YouTube, iTunes and Spotify

That's true, this is supposed to be a guitar-oriented Blog. But that new vintage-electro European collective is called Magnetica Leoni, and I am part of it. To be more precise, I produced it and mixed it. Enjoy!

Magnetica Leoni - Vintage Synths, Drum Machines, Modern Production & Mix - Between Kraftwerk and New Order

I just ended this mix. Magnetica Leoni is a vintage-electro collective and this is its very first public track. Started as a contest from a modular synth track by Marco Petracca.

Pellegrino - Carl Sagan live set : Ableton, Novation Launchpad and AKAI MPD 32

OK, OK, this post is not guitar-related.
But maybe you know I run and indie label with some friends of mine, and this guy called Pellegrino has just joined our roster.

This video is a preview of how his live-set will look like.
Minimal.

An Ableton Live Session with some controllers like the well known Novation Launchpad and the AKAI MPD32.
Images, animations and light show will be part of the performance.

Straight from the Lady Lovely website:

"Carl Sagan" is a tribute to the well known astronomer (born in Brooklyn on the 9th of November 1934), who wrote "Reflections on a grain of Dust" which inspired the musician Marco Pellegrino's work. The description of the last photograph of the Earth taken in 1990 from the spacecraft Voyager 1 from a distance of six billion miles from Earth is the starting point a journey into darkness, floating in outer space. Pellegrino is a musician and video maker. He tells the story of Sagan using an eclectic, coded message which is Intense and dreamlike using images, sound and light and shade. Marco Pellegrino was born in Novara, Italy and now lives in Rome. 

Mixing advice for Home Studios and Indie Labels - Upload your mix to SoundCloud and play it thru different systems before the Digital Distribution submission

I mixed this song some months ago, and now it's finally out.
In my experience, one of the most difficult things nowadays, talking about the mixing process, is to obtain a sound that fits in every situation.
Just at my place I have so many different speakers and headphones that I find really hard to reach the final mix. What works for the first setup, doesn't work for another and vice versa.
I know the mastering stage should play the game (a part of), but what about minor productions, for which you have both to mix and to finalize your song?
If you run an indie label as I do, let me say sometimes you will send the stereo mix to a mastering engineer, some other you won't. Sad but true.
So you have to work it out.
My main reference monitors are Tannoy System 800, not bad at all.
But even if I am not a mastering engineer, I am stunned about the different perception of a mix coming out from Pro Tools straight to my monitor system, and the mix uploaded to SoundCloud or Youtube and streamed thru everything you want: Hi-Fi, home-theater, Headphones, iPhone, whatever...
Obviously the mix remains the same, but the perception is so different that I need to fix the mix at least a couple of time after a "web-check" on laptops and smartphones, from internal speakers and with cheap headphones.
It's totally nonsense nowadays let your expensive and super flat speakers being the final judge, since the 90% of the people will listen to your song thru all kinds of crap during their spinning workout or what.
10 years ago you had a "car test" and you were done. Now it's a mess.

What I'm trying to say is, I think I'm not looking for the perfect mix anymore.
Mixing stage nowadays is not about perfection, is about compatibility.
Or maybe it has been this way since the beginning, and I'm realizing it right now at the age of 40.
Mixing is not the art of Perfection, mixing is the art of Compromise.

Think about it during your next mixing session, before wasting 2 hours on the high frequencies damp of your reverb on the woodblock track (as I do).

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