How far are you willing to travel to make the album of your dreams? Why do bands fly up to thousands of kilometres to Astia-studio to record their music on magnetic tape? “We travelled to the other side of the world to make our dreams come true!” – Case study Aeternal Requiem. By reading this post […]
Tape recording – this once almost obsolete art of capturing energy and emotion we call music is making a comeback. As I know this topic inside out, I want to help you understand why you should record on tape. If you knew what I know, you neither would want to record on anything but tape. […]
On the previous part you learned how during demo session Ensiferum members were blown away by the huge difference between tape and computer recording. We went thru the recording process for drums and bass along with rhythm guitar including the recording setup used on the album. Now let’s continue with vocals, accordion and mixing as […]
The Finnish folk metal ambassadors, Ensiferum, first came to me in 2014 to make recording, mixing and mastering for One Man Army album. I had worked, or actually “work” sounds too official so let’s change it to “had a blast” with Petri Lindroos (vocals & guitar) back when he was in Norther. We made three […]