• Master | DDP and CD authoring

    Master | DDP and CD authoring

    CD authoring is the process where METADATA and MUSIC get combined into a physical-optical support.

    I’m preparing and verifyng the DDP Master for Harmaline’s new album “HOPE”. DDP is a reference format for delivering the output of the authoring process to a CD manufacturer / press plant / duplicator.

    The “free!!” useful tool that I’m using is courtesy of Herr Andreas Ruge.

    DDP Mastering for the Command line (andreasruge.de)

    CD belongs to a previous era: The “golden age of Digital production” THE 80 – 90’S !

    In that period of time (if you were in the right emisphere of planet earth) the working class was always happy! People was actually paying money for good music. The money were invested in fine musical production and also in prostitutes and drugs for musicians / managers / discographers.

    We were really happy because human socialization was not conducted over the Internet and governments pushed the pubblic expenditure ad public debt (inflation). But…… the end was in sight. (Napster and Taxes).

  • REC|MIX|MASTER “Harmaline | Black Love”

    17/09/2021 – Harmaline | Black Love (Official Videoclip)

    Song produced in Hell’s Kitchen Music Lab

  • REC | Keyboard Session | Harmaline

    22/09/2020 | Harmaline | Recording live keyboard for the new album

    88 Keys – Digital Piano

    61 Keys – EP

    Lines passing thru transformers and tubes (there are also resistors, capacitors, conductors and transistors in there!)

  • Prod | Synth Automation

    I’m “automating” my synth trails. Automation in the analog domain is moving the hands on an electric device (forgetting VCAs). I’m controlling the levels using my hand and recording the acoustic result back to my daw.

    Putting a volume controller into different points of an effect chain brings to different results. Taking care or unlearn about impedence mismatches may determine interesting sounds.

  • Rec | Recording Room | Bass Absorption

    I need to control the room modes in the “Shoebox recording room”. I’m building a corner bass absorber following the “Helmoltz Absorber” model. I tuned up the system to a desired frequency range.

    Calculations and project are supported by this tool:

    https://www.acousticmodelling.com/

  • Rec | Lapsteel Guitar

    Music it’s definitely a non-discrete matter. We (dominant pop-eurocentric culture) use to draw it monodimensionally in a discrete domain.

    Some musical instruments transcend these limitations. Playing this category of instruments makes you experience the perception of harmony without the guidance of established rules.

  • Harmaline || Blue Sky

    Recording || Mixing || Mastering

    Blue Sky | Harmaline

    Music and Lyrics by: Luca Ferrari, Viviana Iannone

    Buy Links: https://smarturl.it/H-bluesky

    2018 © Harmaline | Black Feathers

    https://harmaline.net
    https://www.facebook.com/harmaline
    https://twitter.com/harmaline

  • Harmaline || A Thousand Pictures

    Recording || Mixing || Mastering

    A Thousand Pictures | Harmaline

    Music and Lyrics by: Luca Ferrari, Viviana Iannone

    Buy Links: https://smarturl.it/AThousandPictures 

    2016 © Harmaline | Black Feathers

    https://harmaline.net
    https://www.facebook.com/harmaline
    https://twitter.com/harmaline