Sidwave

Hi, I’m Jan Harries.

I grew up with music, and various instruments that our parents provided.
Very early music and sounds became my favorite thing, and I wanted to learn the piano.

At age 12, my brother and me had a little 3 man Rockband that our school headmaster “Madsen” had initialized. My brother on bass, me on guitar, Henrik on drums.

One year later i began to play a violin that i got from grandfather, and then came 1985 where I got a home computer, a Commodore 64.
It has a small synthesizer chip, and i could finally begin creating electronic music.

Later I started using some synthesizers, and VST.

For mixing and mastering, I use mainly these VST and DAW’s

Izotope Ozone
to process most aspects of the sound
https://www.izotope.com/en/products/ozone.html

Cytomic The Glue Compressor
to give your drums and bass the extra nudge, if needed
https://cytomic.com/glue

Kotelnikov Compressor
more extra nudges, but not so violent as “The Glue”
https://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-kotelnikov/

Infected Mushroom Pusher
some types of music benefit from this, but it ain’t classical 🙂
https://www.waves.com/plugins/infected-mushroom-pusher

Youlean Loudness Meter
it is used to control the final volume output, so that published music on Apple Music and Spotify will have room to add their “Loudness” (-13 LUFS)
https://youlean.co/youlean-loudness-meter/

Renoise (DAW)
this is a music “Tracker” which I use for composing and mixing. It has many built in effects of various sorts
https://www.renoise.com/

Studio One (DAW)
also used for composing, mixing, mastering
https://www.presonus.com/products/Studio-One

Here are some mix and master examples, and references

Bangsahr
Jiggy
Bulletproof
Anne Viese
Zero Sale
De Skjulte

Dries Van Der Haegen

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