StudioPros Welcomes New Producers!

Now that we have the holidays behind us and are feeling things slow down from the festivities, I wanted to check in with some exciting new updates for 2019! We hope this New Year brings fresh musical ideas and steps forward to making your musical goals a reality. StudioPros has welcomed 2 new producers recently to join our talented team. Help me welcome Dom Williams and Courtney Jones to the team! Dom Williams Dom studied music theatre at Penn State,… [Read More]

Featured Artist: Spiderhound

This month’s featured artist is New Jersey based artist Spiderhound. Since 2009, we have produced 6 tracks together. Today is the release date of his latest EP Dopamine through ILL Gates’ Producer Dojo label. CONGRATS! On this release, StudioPros teamed up with Spiderhound to write topline (lyrics and melody) to his produced instrumentals. The end result are infectious melodies with hooky and memorable lyrics. Spiderhound’s Experience with StudioPros I first got involved with StudioPros back in 2009. I came across the service… [Read More]

Overdub an Orchestra Section

Creating A Live String Sound On A Budget With the emergence of Midi and sample libraries, a more acoustic approach to synthesized sound has flourished. It is now possible for any single individual to create a very large and passable sound of, let’s say, an orchestra. Even though this advancement has made in-home-music-making easier, it is much like any other new technology, in the sense that it’s progress walks hand in hand with some complications; namely, aural complications. How do… [Read More]

Music production by Studio Pros: The Sketch

The first step of Studio Pros’ full music production package is laying down a guitar/keyboard track with a melody line synced to a click. We call it: A Sketch. The sketch will help the rhythm section (the drummer and bass player) to understand the structure, the chord progression and the melody of the song.   This is the foundation of the production and will later be replaced by the final guitars/keys. The sketch will NOT serve as part of the production’s… [Read More]

What’s the Best Way to Produce Your Songs?

What’s the best  way to produce your songs?  In order to answer that question, you’ll need to answer another first: what are your musical goals? What would you do with your song if it was already produced just like you wanted it to be? Would you try to get placements in movies? Would you want it played on popular TV shows? How about a commercial spot? Or would you rather pitch it to another artist? Maybe you’re just looking to… [Read More]

Taking the “cheese” out of your song

“This song sounds cheesy.” You’ve all said it at one point in time. How do songwriters avoid this problem? Sure, Michael Bolton rocked the “cheese” in the early nineties and Christopher Cross made hits in the eighties with this “out-dated” production style, but let’s keep moving forward. How do you avoid sounding like “you just can’t let the good ole days go”? Several steps in the song writing and production process of your song can help you avoid taking a… [Read More]

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