Gergely Kalapis Music

You might think, "yeah I've got it now" , everything is slowly falling into its place, all you have got to do is just a few tweaks here and there and the song is ready to go live. The more you produce music, the more you realise, mixing is just as important, if not more important, than recording itself. Well, it certainly is important, however it is also a very different process to writing and recording. Some time ago I read that one of Nirvana's albums was recorded in 3 days and mixed in three MONTHS, and this example in itself highlights the possibly most important aspect of the process: time. You might have already listened the mix a hundred times, but if you did it in a space of a few days or a week, you likely missed a number of things that could, and possibly should be improved or fixed - or should it? Before I elaborate on the time element further, I just wanted to stop and give some appreciation to mistakes. Yes, you read that right, mistakes. Of course, I am ...

What a find! Another one from Nextdoor. Every now and then I still browse the “neighbourhood market” just to see what’s on there, even though I now have virtually no space for my instruments lol, plus I have a big project on my mind which I might share some other time. So there I am, thinking, well, you never know what you might find. And indeed! The ad for this guitar with the below picture came up about 2 months ago, it was advertised for £50, which is not a bad deal, but I didn’t really look to buy another acoustic, my old Ibanez served the purpose very well since I got it around 2004. I even remember right before I bought it, I did try a Fender acoustic as I was looking for a standard  acoustic sound, something you can hear on Bryan Adams’ “Room Service” album, for example. Nothing special, just a good all-rounder, almost without a personality. I remember putting the two side by side, and the Fender, for some reason didn’t feel as comfortable, nor was its sound convincing, so d...