I’m happy to share a brand new video I produced – Slovenian guitarist Aljaz Cvirn performing Invierno Porteño from Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, arranged for classical guitar by Sergio Assad. Recorded in November/December 2013 at 2d Recording…
This is yet another excellent arrangement for three guitars by Edson Lopes, featuring one of Scott Joplin’s classics, Maple Leaf Rag. Recorded with Michele Della Giustina 2001 classical guitar in my studio. Equipment used: Metric Halo ULN-2, 5 Oktava Mk-012…
This is my latest video featuring a simple yet technically quite demanding fingerstyle piece by Rick Ruskin called Microphone Fever. Besides playing classical music, I’ve always enjoyed exploring fingerstyle, pop, world and jazz music as well. Luckily, I’ve been involved…
This is my rendition of the famous classical guitar piece by Heitor Villa-Lobos: Prelude n. 1. Recorded in May 2012 at my studio. Played on a beautiful 2001 Michele Della Giustina classical guitar. As usual, sound was recorded using a…
My rendition of the famous piece by Fernando Sor “Introduction, Theme and Variations on a Mozart’s Theme O Cara Armonia”, Op. 9.
For my upcoming solo album (featuring Baroque music by Bach, Scarlatti, Zamboni and Kapsberger) I wanted to hear how the microphones I currently own stack up against each other and put them in a realistic recording session (in a spaced…
Last Sunday I set up a quick impromptu recording/video shooting session and played some of the most beautiful studies from Fernando Sor‘s 24 Exercices très faciles, Op.35 – n.1, n.13, n.17 and n.22.
I’m thrilled to present you with my latest music video featuring famous Brazilian choro – Tico-Tico no Fubá by Zequinha de Abreu (1880-1935). Delightful arrangement for three guitars by Edson Lopes. A shout-out to Edson for giving away so many…
I’m very excited to share my latest music video with you, featuring the great cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s piece Danza Caracteristica. If you like the video, please subscribe to my YouTube or Vimeo Channel. Danza Caracteristica is one of the…
I proudly present my latest studio recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos’ famous classical guitar piece – Prelude number 1. Played on a 2001 Michele Della Giustina classical guitar, sound recorded in my studio using a pair of Oktava Mk-012 and a…
I’m excited to share two of my latest videos with you, featuring well-known Slovenian pop songs “Kakor zvezdi na nebu” and “Ptič” by Miro Tomassini and Vlado Kreslin. Published with authors’ permission, classical guitar arrangement is done by me, sheet…
I had the privilege of hosting Japanese classical guitarist Toshiyuki Kumagai in my studio in mid December and I’ve just finished editing and mixing the pieces. We recorded a CD of works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Barrios and Llobet. Take a moment…
Recently, with the help of two colleagues of mine, Toshiyuki Kumagai and Takuya Okamoto, I have conducted my first Classical Guitar Shootout between four guitars made by world-class luthiers: Yuichi Imai (Japan), Bernd Holzgruber (Austria), Michele Della Giustina (Italy) and…
You’ve probably come across QR Codes (abbreviated from Quick Response code) a thousand times. QR Codes are small black & white checker-box images and the information encoded can be made up of any kind of data, but generally speaking we can…
In this blog post I’ll explain several stereo techniques often used to record classical guitar – AB, ORTF, XY and MS (Mid-Side). You’ll be able to hear the difference for yourself and vote for whatever sound(s) you prefer! The microphones…
