Tidalwave Studio

16/01/2026

Just stumbled across this video from the band BORDERWARS, for which I had the pleasure of mixing the album 🙂
Featuring the great Paul Bostaph from Slayer 🤘🏽

If you like thrashmetal, check out the link in the comments

16/01/2026

recording vocals for the next Umbra et Imago album 🤠

21/12/2025

Watch how I recorded and mixed the guitars for dutch horrormetal band Carach Angren
link to video in the comments!

11/12/2025

Want to know how to mix extreme metal vocals?

watch how I mixed Carach Angrens vocals here:

https://youtu.be/blFjw8NjAfc

31/10/2025

Happy Release Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows (offiziell) 🎃 🎃

Very productive and unique artist 🙂
We have recorded over 150 songs in the last 15 years 🤗 Looking forward to the next 150 😉

recorded & mixed by Patrick Damiani at Tidalwave Studio
mastered by Robin Schmidt at 2496mastering

Today, October 31st, is the official release date of SOPOR AETERNUS’ fabulously fabulous new album “THE DEAD HAVE COME“ and the accompanying 6-track EP “DEA MUTÁRION“. :)
https://fantotal.de/en/sopor-aeternus

Depending on where you are on this planet, the mere music should be available on all the streaming platforms within the next few hours, whenever the clock strikes midnight for you.

I am very “happy“ (relatively speaking, obviously, because … you know … goff, goff, goff and all that) with this wonderful release! Everything sounds the way it is supposed to sound, and everything looks the way I wanted it to look. Both the DOUBLE FEATURE CD-BOX and the various VINYL editions all turned out so very beautifully … and — and as cheesy as this may sound — I am honestly grateful for … well, ALL of this! :)

Happy Halloween. 🎃

Tea, cookies & homosexuality,
AVC.

P.S.: Oh, I almost forgot, there is short blog-entry over on SOPOR’s homopage. http://www.soporaeternus.de/Only_Homosexuality_can_save_you_now.html

22/10/2025

watch full video:
https://youtu.be/hN8e3H6v5EQ

09/08/2025

Everyone thinks building a better home studio means buying more gear.
We just built one for under 1500€ — and it wasn’t the gear that made the biggest difference.

Here’s what actually transformed the sound 🎯
(Link in first comment 👇)

24/05/2025

One of my favorite albums to ever have produced will soon come „back“ in an enhanced sounding version.
I usually don’t like to touch up works, since they capture the moment and mostly should stay the way they are…
But this one was fun to make, and felt right to do.
Original spirit conserved, clarity and details enhanced ;)

Friends,
some of you may remember this album that I recorded with my then collaborator and miracle-working engineer and flawless arranger Patrick Damiani back in 2008/2009. Several moons ago, Patrick approached me about remixing a song of these sessions for a project of his and after hearing the amazing result, I talked him into remixing the whole album. We dug deep into the original tracks of it all and laid bare some hidden little gems to create an enhanced listening experience of this rather personal album…
Much like the updated album art work depicting my great uncle and his comrades in French exile in the late 40s and early 50s, this replenished version sheds some new light on these “Flowers From Exile”. You’ll find it here:

https://bfan.link/ffe-revisited