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I’m sure I am not the only one that was excited to kiss 2020 goodbye. To quote my client Jan Best on one of her latest songs “What a year, what a year it’s been!” Despite all of the challenges that this year has brought, it has also brought a lot of blessings. I have been fortunate to work with the best of the best for the past 13 + years and for that I’m grateful. StudioPros has continued to… [Read More]
Angie Zawada is a Montreal based songwriter that I have had the pleasure of collaborating with since 2012. Together, we have completed 5 projects that range from full production to mixing and mastering. This particular project “To Gaia’s Freedom” was a project we helped finalize by taking her raw stems and completing the final touch of mixing and mastering with our StudioPros engineer. When Angie contacted me a few weeks ago, I knew that the material she would be sending… [Read More]
This week’s featured artist/songwriter, Phil Kershaw is from beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Together Phil and I have produced 3 songs. I always enjoy Phil’s positivity and trust in our team to take his songs from a very basic guitar/vocal demo stage and transform them into soulful soundscapes with our talented session musicians and vocalists. For this song, “The Bells”, we wanted to have a more Contemporary Christian approach with some undertones of soulful gospel elements. We chose to go with… [Read More]
We are excited to add two talented vocalists to our team this week! Meet Perrin: Growing up just outside of NYC, Perrin’s love and passion for music and performing grew from very a young age. Her career began on stage in musical theatre, singing the National Anthem at a New York Giants football game, playing music festivals across the country with her band and a publishing deal in Nashville for her songwriting abilities. Her songs and voice have been featured… [Read More]
When Artist D’Elle contacted me about producing a roots-blues Americana track “Truth Be Told”, I was so excited. As a folk artist myself, the picture she had painted about her song and vision really resonated with me. We had talks about finding a way to produce the music that took you back to a Mississippi front porch. Picture sitting on the front porch picking on an old beat up acoustic guitar as musicians join in. The first goal, find the… [Read More]
You Can’t Always Get What You Want But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. Joe Faylor got on the StudioPros radar when he entered “Died And Gone To Heaven” during our 2019 Country Song Contest. As the creator of executive media presentations for multinational companies in Silicon Valley, he’s always had a creative bug. “I knew I wanted the song to be country” he shares. “I’d had the idea for it and some of… [Read More]
StudioPros Country Song Contest winner Kurt Hunter shares “Old Guitar” final master We wanted to share with you the before and after of Kurt Hunter’s winning StudioPros Country Contest song, “Old Guitar”. Kurt is such a talented songwriter and was a true pleasure to work with throughout this country music production. The StudioPros production team chose to go with a live country band feel including live drums, bass, electric guitar, piano as well as some tastefully placed pedal steel. Kurt… [Read More]
First Annual StudioPros Pop Songwriting Contest Winners Over 300 talented pop songwriters submitted to StudioPros first annual pop songwriting contest in just 2 weeks time. Wow! Well done everyone. Thanks for your enthusiasm. I have to say, there were so many great submissions that we had a really hard time making a final decision. If you submitted a song and you didn’t win, please don’t get discouraged. Keep on writing! We still want to help you professionally produce your song… [Read More]
Communication. The root of a lot of sessions that go wrong as well as relationships in general not working out comes down to this word COMMUNICATION. After years of working on productions in all styles, languages with different personalities, I thought I’d throw together a quick blog on what I have seen WORKS. Keep it short. Musicians in general don’t like to read. I have seen clients write paragraphs upon paragraphs of changes that they’d like to have made. What… [Read More]
Tips for A Great Co-writing Session The Situation: You’ve spent countless nights humming into your voice memos. You’ve scribbled dozens of ideas into the notepad on the bedside table after 2AM. But now, after spending most of your songwriting journey alone, other people want to come in and crash your party. If you’re a notoriously awkward collaborator, haven’t done it enough, or have never written with anyone before, here are a few tips for a smooth co-writing session. Songwriting With A… [Read More]
