Daniele Amatori

Pro Mixing_Editing_Recording

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I'm a Mixing Engineer and if needed I can polish and edit the tracks for you, time and phase align drums, tune Vocals & instruments. If you need, I can also provide you with Bass Guitar & Guitar Recording or I could reamp your recordings, program and record drums or trigger your own drum tracks with the aid of special virtual softwares.

Professional Session Musician with more than 25 years experience, started professional mixing in 2018 and already worked on many production projects for a variety of Big Names such as:
- Mike Terrana (drummer for Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, Steve Lukather)
- Vincenzo Lemporro (songwriter for Audio2, Mina, Celentano)
- Gianni Guarracino (guitarist fro Pino Daniele, Alan Sorrenti, Gino Paoli, Zucchero, Mia Martini, Renato Zero)
- Leo D'Angelo (BV for Eduardo De Crescenzo)
- Vincent Gullo (pianist & keyboards for Lara Fabian, Pierre Perret)

... and many others independent artists or bands.

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Languages

  • English
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Interview with Daniele Amatori

  1. Q: Can you share one music production tip?

  2. A: Choose the right instrument before hand so to spread frequency range and avoid as much frequency masking as possible from the beginning. Also tune your Drums, avoid any sort of loud noise or hum, do the recording as best as you can. When choosing the amount of instruments the less you use the better separation and clarity in the final product will have. If the production, song arrangements and recording are done at maximum of people expertise there'll be less editing to be done which in turn will result in a faster and a better sounding mix.

  3. Q: What are you working on at the moment?

  4. A: Just finished mixing a documentary film in memory of the Italian actress Elenora Duse's centenary of her death.

  5. Q: Analog or digital and why?

  6. A: Nowadays ITB (digital), faster and easily recallable!!

  7. Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?

  8. A: I'll always try my best, and if I can't do it I won't take the job.

  9. Q: What do you like most about your job?

  10. A: I like everything in this job because actually for me is not a job, is a passion !!

  11. Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

  12. A: How long is going to take you? As long as needed, depending on the quality of material customer provides me. A cake can only be good if the ingredients are good too, if they aren't then even the best chef can't make a tasty cake.

  13. Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?

  14. A: That a mixing engineer can do magic to poorly recorded tracks.

  15. Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?

  16. A: What's your budget?...LOL

  17. Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

  18. A: Lets try our best to get the best we can do... when we've done our best there wouldn't need anything else to talk or do about it. Let's just get the job done

  19. Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?

  20. A: A water and food plugin would be enough

  21. Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?

  22. A: Mixing from 2018, but being musician for over 25 years

  23. Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?

  24. A: All of... because we learn either by doing good staff and nasty staff, we mainly learn by our mistakes not only by working with special artists, but if I could choose one I'd pick Toto!

  25. Q: What type of music do you usually work on?

  26. A: Pop, Rock, Folk, Songwriting, Classical, Cinematic, Orchestral, Fusion

  27. Q: What's your strongest skill?

  28. A: Patient and attention to details...which sometimes could turn to be my weakest skills...LOL

  29. Q: What do you bring to a song?

  30. A: I try my best understand clients musical vision and emotional intention.

  31. Q: What's your typical work process?

  32. A: It depend on the material I receive, there is no a single way only of approaching things during a mixing process.

  33. Q: Tell us about your studio setup.

  34. A: I mainly work in the box with proper studio setup, room sound treated and software monitoring correction tool.

  35. Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?

  36. A: All music inspired me, I've been passionate for all these years, I follow many artists and Audio Experts, always trying to improove my skiils and become a better person and of course a better professional engineer and musician.

  37. Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.

  38. A: My job consists primarily in editing, polishing & mix music for independent artists or for Tv commercial and Documentary. I've been a session Bass Player for the past 25 years therefore when needed by producer or artists I can also provided Bass & Guitar recording.

Gear Highlights
  • Yamaha HS7
  • UAD2 Apollo 8
  • Auratone
  • Mackie Monitor Control
  • Grado Sr 60
  • Sony Mdr
  • Sonarworks Reference 4 Studio
  • Plugins UAD-Waves-PA-Antares-etc
  • Soundcraft Analog Mixer
  • Radial DI
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