Recording Studio: Bouzouki

Recording Studio: The bouzouki belongs to a family of long neck lute instruments such as Saz, Tanbur and Bouzouk. The name “Bouzouki” is believed to derive from “Bozuk” which means “broken”, possibly referring to the alteration of...

Recording Studio: Cordophones

In the Recording Studio: On a Saturday afternoon, there’s nothing you’d rather do than head to the basement with your electric guitar for a little jamming. You plug in the amp, crank up the volume, and hit the strings with a satisfying strum. You have just...

Voice Over Sydney: 3 Types of Voices

Voice Over Sydney: There is a common misconception that there are two discrete vocal registers, “head register” and “chest register.” The truth is, in speech pathology terms, there are actually four vocal registers, but only one of them is used in everyday singing—the...

Recording Studio: Idiophones

Recording Studio: An Idiophone instrument creates sound via vibrations through the body of the instrument itself, with the most well known examples of such instruments being the cymbals on a drum kit, the xylophone or a bell. Recording Studio Idiophones most commonly...

Recording Studio: Membranophones

A Recording Studio membranophone is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, the...