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Its been four weeks, since I started my audio blog. Recording has been an enjoyable and thrilling experience for me and as I do more recordings, I am getting more attracted by the art of audio engineering. You need to learn a lot of things. Nowadays you have innumerable choices for sound editing software. Sound in a crude sense, can be considered as an array of mechanical vibrations and we are limited to hear the frequencies in a range of 20 Hz to20,000 Hz. When you organize sound waves with respect to time, and give it some rhythm, pitch, mood, emotions and dynamics, you will end up in generating some sort of musical form. It’s a difficult choice, how do you want to express your musical thoughts. A karaoke singer don’t have to worry much, since a basic sound editing interface like Audacity is more than enough; but if you want to create your own music, you should have a reasonable flexibility in the audio simulator to express your thoughts. I am still using Audacity and it has a lot of useful inbuilt effects to improve your audio. But we are limited to use the predefined profiles and I guess many of the inbuilt profiles which Audacity has, doesn’t support the Indian music style. Yesterday I got Adobe Audition from one of my friend and I find it is far better than what I am using right now. I will be recording using Audition from next week onwards. Previously a conventional weekend means going out for a movie, try some restaurants, watch a Padmarajan movie with some methyl alcohol derivative etc etc. Things have changed now. I spend at least 2 hours to learn and record a song. As you know it is quite hard to create a noise free atmosphere at home. I have to say that the pleasure of recording and editing our own sound is amazing. I couldn’t make much significant improvement in technology wise since I started the blog, but at least a few hours of exercise for my vocal chords keeps it alive. I had given almost 5 years of rest to my throat and it may take few more months of regular efforts to retrieve the fitness. Being a Glaswegian, I have a very limited opportunity to sing and I feel an audio blog is the ideal medium for me to express myself. I came across this concept following a random Google search and thankful to Jo for maintaining an inspirational model blog.

This time, I attempt one of Brahmanandan's ever time hit from the movie Shasthram jayichu Manushyan thottu. Lyrics by Sreekumaran Thambi and music by Dakshinamoorthy. As I do something related to Astrophysics for living, I couldn’t fully comprehend the word “Tharaka roopini”. In many aspects, Brahmanadan resembles Venugopal. He hasn't sung many songs, or Malayalam music industry hasn’t had a genuine necessity to add an additional singer like Brahmanadan since they already have the blessed KJY & Jayachandran during those days. However all his songs were super hits.



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