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Baritone guitar frequencies sit between a standard guitar and a bass guitar. Baritone guitar looks exactly like a standard electric guitar, see photo below:

Except that the sound of the strings are of lower frequencies compared to standard electric guitar. One of the most important uses of baritone guitar is the production of rock and alternative music. One of my favorite bands like Staind uses baritone guitar, it is more appropriate in rock music because of its dark and moody sound. This means it will sound heavy.

Therefore it is important to mix baritone guitar correctly so that it is clearly distinguishable from standard pitched guitars. Below is a sample audio clip of the baritone guitar in clean mode: Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone has a certain moments in their life that they listen to commercial FM radio stations. You might hear a lot of great songs and some are still memorable as of today. Then you might asked, how this songs comes out to be played on the radio? Who created this one? Is this done by the song artist itself or only the recording company is involved?

Then you might see music videos of artists playing in the bands along with their instruments that might take place in a recording studio. Then you might ask again, does the song might be recorded in that studio? A lot of fascinating questions, even I before didn’t have a single idea of the entire music production process.

Below are the steps and processes of music production:

Step 1: The moment the artist recording label (like Universal Records, Sony BMG, etc) decided to start an album recording project. The recording label assigns a record producer to the artist. In some cases, the artist will be the one to select a record producer but this is subject to recording label approval.

Step 2: The recording producer along with what has been agreed with the artist and recording label will finally decided on what type of sound they are planning to achieve. Some rough ideas on songs to be included on the album might be discussed in this stage (if the artist has some rough demos before). Read the rest of this entry »

Parametric Equalizer is one of the most useful mixing tools available to any audio/recording/mixing engineer. Yet, amateurs do not fully understand the concept and operation of these parametric equalizers. As a result, they misunderstood the usefulness of this tool and does not able to attain the sound quality they need.

Beginners in recording and mixing are often acquainted with only one equalizer which is called “Graphics Equalizer”.

While this is still an equalizer, it provides almost no use to mixing audio recording sessions. It is because of the following aspects:

a. Graphic equalizer cannot provide control Q (in applying EQ settings to a particular range of frequencies).
b. Some graphic equalizers are NOT designed for mixing and just for hi-fi equipment monitoring purposes.

So it means that the accuracy of the graphics equalizer will be in question. Now how to use the parametric equalizer? Before we illustrate the details, let us provide a good working definition of parametric equalizer. Read the rest of this entry »