You’ve written a great song. You have a strong melody, lyrics, the musical structure is set and you have a vision for the production. The next step is finding the right team of musicians, engineers and producers to help you bring your vision to life. As an independent artist you come across a lot of decisions that can make or break your career in the industry of songwriting and pitching your songs to film and tv. Decisions such as: What… [Read More]
Help the StudioPros team in welcoming our newest addition to our female vocalists. Meet Alice. Alice is an industry recognized singer, writer, and artist with over 20 years in the recording industry. A ragin’ cajun from Louisiana, she specializes in adding a little down home soul and some fiery spice to each project. Now in Los Angeles, she’s known as a true vocal chameleon with the ability to sound like a number of popular singers like Amy Winehouse, Nelly Furtado,… [Read More]
First Annual StudioPros Country Songwriting Contest Winners The StudioPros producers are beyond excited at all the wonderful country songwriting contest submissions that we received. What started out as a fun contest, turned into such an outpouring of well crafted country songs that we had to sort through. We had over 500 submissions to the contest! Making the final decisions on the winners was a difficult decision to make, but we LOVE the songs we chose. Stay tuned as we will… [Read More]
Have you written a chord progression and have ideas for the perfect instrumental track but are falling short in the songwriting department when it comes to lyrics, melody and singing? We can help! StudioPros topline service is something we’ve recently introduced and has been proven to help songwriters take their projects to the next level. The Best Way To Finish Your Partial Recordings. Whether you are stuck with a partial recording, or just have the instrumental and no lyrics or… [Read More]
The StudioPros team has welcomed two new talented session vocalists this month! Meet Jack and Jenny. Meet Jenny. Jenny first learned to love singing when she and her mom would ride in the car for hours singing to Jewel’s “Foolish Games” on cassette. Her love for singing eventually grew when she learned of Faith Hill, Christina Aguilera, and Whitney Houston. She wrote her first song at the age of 13. She eventually attended Berklee College of Music as voice major,… [Read More]
Technology has allowed more independent artists access to recording their music from their own home studios. Almost every day, I get asked the question “what is the best microphone for my home studio”. Here’s our StudioPros producer’s top 10 list of vocal microphones for home studios. Keep in mind that if you are on a budget, there also great resources for buying used microphones online. StudioPros Producer’s Top 10 Vocal Microphone List In no particular order… 1. Shure SM7B Vocal… [Read More]
We are excited to announce that as our team has expanded to 4 producers, we are now able to offer weekend availability here at StudioPros! Do you find yourself being a weekend music warrior after putting a full work week in at the office? Now, you can contact us on Saturday and Sunday so that all projects move smoothly and there are no weekend hold ups. StudioPros new office hours are: Monday – Friday from 7am – 5pm PST Saturday 9am… [Read More]
Mr. Stinky is reggae/rap artist based out of Kansas City, Missouri. Born and raised in the States, you can still hear where Mr. Stinky’s roots come from as his father is from Saint Catherine, Jamaica. The tropical beats have island tones and that worldly cross over style that blends reggae sensibility with modern hip hop beats. StudioPros took his music to the next level by professionally mixing and mastering the tracks that he recorded and provided to our team. To… [Read More]
This month’s featured artist, Fern Walker Jones is a Texas based singer/songwriter. I especially enjoyed working with Fern on this song as it was tapping into the smooth jazz side of our team and the musicians had so much fun with the more intricate instrumentation on this song! To capture a smooth jazz feel, we started out the production with our saxophonist taking a lead solo to kick start the production and set the tone for the piece. What follows… [Read More]
New female vocalist added to StudioPros We are excited to introduce the latest addition to our vocalist team. Meet Shay! Checkout Shay’s demo reel: Shay is a multi-talented singer with a discipline in arranging and background vocals. Over the past 20 years, she’s lent her talents to the music industry working with artists such as Will Smith, Bad Boys artist Total, Missy Elliot, the late great Aaliyah, and Destiny’s Child. One of her specialties is helping artists establish a… [Read More]