Michael Angelo Batio (IPA: [bæ: ti o]) is an American instrumental rock/heavy metal guitarist and columnist from Chicago, Illinois. He attended Northeastern Illinois University and received a bachelor's degree in music theory and composition. Guitar One Magazine named him the fastest guitar shredder of all time.[1] February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Instrumental rock & roll is a type of rock and roll music which emphasises musical instruments, and which features no or very little singing. ... “Heavy metal” redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... Nitro was a Glam Metal band formed by singer Jim Gillette and guitarist Michael Angelo Batio in Phoenix, Arizona in 1987. ... Dean Guitars is a manufacturer of musical instruments, primarily famous for their electric guitars. ... Articles with similar titles include the NATO phonetic alphabet, which has also informally been called the “International Phonetic Alphabet”. For information on how to read IPA transcriptions of English words, see IPA chart for English. ... Instrumental rock & roll is a type of rock and roll music which emphasises musical instruments, and which features no or very little singing. ... “Heavy metal” redirects here. ... the very definition of a guitarist is cody allen and taylor hines because of there un ending guitar skills and awsomnes. ... A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a column. Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs in Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country State Counties Cook, DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in the North Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Music theory is a field of study that investigates the nature or mechanics of music. ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

==Career==LOUTH VILLAGE Batio began his recording career in the band Holland with vocalist Tommy Holland. Their Atlantic Records album, Little Monsters, met with moderate success in the mid-1980s. He later joined Jim Gillette on Gillette's solo album, Proud to Be Loud. The two metal stars, as well as bassist T.J. Racer and drummer Bobby Rock went on to found the metal band Nitro, releasing two albums. Nitro also filmed a music video for their song Freight Train among others which received air time on MTV. Atlantic Records (Atlantic Recording Corporation) is an American record label, and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. ... Jim Gillette Jim Gillette is a singer, formerly of the glam metal band Nitro. ... Proud To Be Loud is a 1987 album by Jim Gillette. ... T.J. Racer was the origanal bass player for Nitro. ... Bobby Rock is a drummer who has played for various bands, including Vinnie Vincent Invasion, Nitro, Nelson, Brunette, and Hardline. ... Nitro was a Glam Metal band formed by singer Jim Gillette and guitarist Michael Angelo Batio in Phoenix, Arizona in 1987. ... This article is about the original U.S. music television channel. ...

Batio has been playing guitar since the age of ten, and could shred faster than his teacher within two years. He plays as a right-handed person even though he is left-handed. He has stated at guitar clinics that he is ambidextrous teaching himself to play two guitars at the same time — either in synchronized or separate harmonies. He also invented and successfully played the very first 'quad' guitar. However, the instrument was stolen during a Nitro show in El Paso, Texas, and only two of the four parts required for its assembly have ever been recovered. It is because of this that he has not played the quad guitar in many years. However, Dean Guitars recently finished production on a new quad guitar for Batio. [2] The Double Guitar [3] is another of his innovations, which he commonly uses live, but never in studio recordings. Another innovation of his is a type of string dampener (specifically "The MAB String Dampener"), a guitar accessory attachable behind the nut of the guitar and flipped into active position during performance. The string dampener eliminates unnecessary buzz and noise from the guitar's strings, allowing the player to easily use legato techniques and finger-tapping techniques without any unwanted sounds. He is also noted for his "MAB Over-Under technique", which he invented, where he flips his hand over and under the neck, approaching the strings from above, then below, instead of from under the neck like other guitar players. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Shred guitar. ... El Paso redirects here. ... In musical notation legato indicates that musical notes are played smoothly. ... Tapping (also known as fingertapping) is a fast playing technique generally associated with electric guitar (although the technique may be performed on almost any string instrument). ...

He has also had a long-term relationship with Dean Guitars, promoting their equipment and leading Dean-sponsored guitar clinics around the world to teach his techniques. Batio has released two popular instructional DVDs, entitled Speed Lives and Speed Kills. The other one was intended to teach fellow guitarists how to play his pieces of music. Furthermore, he is releasing a DVD featuring his Double Guitar Solo, which can now be seen on the Dean Guitars website[4]. It features tribute covers of Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water, Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze and Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train, with Batio's full backing band. This article is about the rock band. ... Smoke on the Water is a famous and influential rock song by British rock band Deep Purple. ... Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... Purple Haze is a song recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. ... Ozzy redirects here. ...

Batio mentions on his official website ,"I am left handed so my right or "picking" hand was overall, the weakest part of my playing. I worked for 2 years in my early teens to master alternate picking while simultaneously working on tapping. Basically, anything and everything I could to strengthen my right hand. I started out being a purely legato player. You would never know that now. I concentrated on my 2 weakest areas- Alternate picking and tapping and perfected those. I am a firm believer in working on something you are deficient in. Once you master a technique that gives you "trouble", other areas of your playing improve dramatically."

Batio taught guitarist Tom Morello (of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave fame) while Batio was attending college. Tom has credited MAB with teaching him in a feature article in Guitar World Magazine in 2005. Tom Morello (born May 30, 1964, as Thomas Baptist Morello) is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine. ... Rage Against the Machine (also Rage and RATM) is a Grammy Award-winning American rock band, noted for their blend of hip hop, heavy metal, punk and funk as well as their revolutionary politics and lyrics. ... Audioslave was an alternative/hard rock supergroup that consisted of the instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello (guitar), Tim Commerford (bass and back-up vocals) and Brad Wilk (drums), together with Chris Cornell of Soundgarden (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) as their lead singer. ...

Batio currently writes "Time To Burn," a monthly column for Guitar World Magazine.

Batio has a Dean signature 6 string model tentatively due for release in June 2007 and has released a signature overdrive pedal from T-Rex of Denmark seen here. Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 For the rock group Tyrannosaurus Rex, see T. Rex (band). ...

Equipment

Michael Angelo Batio is credited with his signature electric guitar sound which is presented in songs such as 'Freight Train' and 'No Boundaries'.

The 'secret' to this sound as revealed by himself in his official forum is his use of a lot of mid boost in his amplifiers and also the overdriving of the power amplifier tubes through the use of an overdrive pedal.

In his debut, Batio was accredited for using Gibson, Ritz Guitars, Dean guitars into Boss overdrive (DS-1, SD-1) pedals into Marshall amplifiers. He was then endorsed by Randall amplifiers (during the Nitro years) until the original owner sold the company. There was a time just after Randall was sold when he appeared with Randall amplifiers (live and in videos, circa 1990s and during the recording of Speed Kills) but in actuality used Marshalls. Also when Dean was sold in 1986, he began to use guitars built by Wayne Charvel exclusively. The most recognizable smooth, fiercely overdriven and punchy synth-esque sound as heard during Batio's Holland and Nitro days is actually a combination of the Boss SD-1 pedal (with the Drive at full) into a Marshall JCM 800 lead series (Batio also uses modded Marshall JCM 800's, the amps used in Holland and Nitro are different) set at medium gain and slightly high volume. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Ritz Guitar Co. ... Dean Guitars is a manufacturer of musical instruments, primarily famous for their electric guitars. ... A typical compact effects pedal. ... Look up Marshall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Randall may refer to the following: // Randall, Indiana Randall, Iowa Randall, Kansas Randall, Minnesota Randalls Island, part of New York City Randall, Wisconsin Randall, Venice beach, and now in the Castro District Also: Randall County, Texas Also: Randall Road (major roadway in Illinois) Adam Randall, Actor from the Rhondda...

In around the mid 1990s to early 2000, Batio acquired an original vintage design Ibanez TS-9 which he now uses exclusively albeit in his 'new' sound (which is heard to contain more treble and sharpness/glassiness than the original 1980s MAB synth tone). Batio also prefers to use the new line of Marshall valve amplifiers recently, especially for the recording of Hands Without Shadows, in which he most likely used a Marshall JCM 2000 DSL head and cab.

Batio also uses Custom designed (or just undisclosed but stock) Dimarzio electric guitar pickups, which sound like that of the PAF Pro and the PAF in the neck position and Super Distortion (and most possibly Double Whammy, in the No Boundaries era)in the bridge position. Other pickups that he uses are EMGs (in his two Rocket guitars and his new Dean signature) and Seymour Duncans (such as the JB model in some of his Double guitars).

Batio also uses Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifiers for his rhythm playing, which adds a different dimension to his guitar sound in contrast to his usual Marshall driven synth sound.

In 2007, Batio, in conjunction with T-Rex Engineering launched a specialized overdrive pedal designed especially for him. The pedal is simply called Michael Angelo Batio Overdrive^[1]. It has been stated to have possibly more overdrive gain to satisfy Batio's taste for heavily overdriven guitar sounds. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... T-Rex Engineering ApS is a manufacturer of hand-made electric guitar effects pedals. ...

Discography

1. ... Holiday Strings An all instrumental CD featuring classic Christmas and festive songs arranged and performed on acoustic guitar by Michael Angelo Batio. ... Planet Gemini is the second album by Michael Angelo Batio, released in 1997 by M.A.C.E.. Track listing All Systems Go – 1:37 Planet Gemini – 4:39 Far Reaches of Space – 4:13 Across Our Universe – 5:11 No Boundaries Part II – 8:58 To Alpha Sector Two... Tradition is an album by guitarist Michael Angelo Batio, released in 2000 on the M.A.C.E. label. ... Lucid Intervals and Moments of Clarity, Part 2 is the fifth album by Michael Angelo Batio, released in 2004. ... A compact disc or CD is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... Remaster (and its derivations, frequently found in the phrases digitally remastered or digital remastering) is a word and concept ushered into the mass consciousness via the digital age, although it had existed before then. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

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References

1. ^ The pedal's official page is at T-Rex Engineering's website

T-Rex Engineering ApS is a manufacturer of hand-made electric guitar effects pedals. ...

External links

• [5]
• Michael Angelo Batio's Website
• Dean Guitars homepage
• Top 10 greatest shredders
• Guitar One's Top 10 fastest shredders