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My guest today is Joe Gilder. He is songwriter, producer, engineer, teacher and innovator in the online world of music production, blogging, and podcasting. Joe’s focus is the home studio owner, to help you create the best recordings you can. He has created a fantastic resource and website called HomeStudioCorner.com

Check out Home Studio Corner Production Club​ a 19-Part Online Course Walking You Through the ENTIRE Home Studio Production Process From Song Idea to Finish Mastered Recording

In his own words:

“Home Studio Corner (HSC) exists to help home studios excel. It gives you LOTS of ways to expand your recording knowledge, hone your recording skills, and make better recordings.”

Joe offers articles, videos, podcasts, and training products so that you can start learning for free now and dive in for much more in depth training when you are ready.

Here are some of the topics we discussed on the show.

Dueling Mixes: 

• Dueling Mixes is for users who are comfortable with their DAW and want to go deeper into what the program can do. The site offers alternate mixes of the same song so the user can compare the two and see how differently a single track can be mixed. They can also download the original track to mix the song themselves. Joe and his co-host Graham Cochrane show you how they mix the songs to give you insights into the process.

“Home Studio Corner” & “Simply Recording” Podcasts. (These links will take you straight to iTunes)

• Joe talks about the production of one of his albums from 2010. He brings up the 80/20 rule which states 80% of your results comes from 20% of the inputs given. He talked about how he was going to write 50 songs in 12 weeks to create at least 10 that he was super proud of!

Predicting The Cost of a Record:

• Joe talks about how to plan out how long and how much time it will cost to complete a record. This goes back to knowing how long it takes you to accomplish something in order to accurately predict how long the process will take. Joe talks about the value of salesmanship when quoting a client on how much his services will cost. This is a great lesson for us all in matching our rates to the high value of our service.

Recording Advice - Q&A:

• Q- “What is the most important advice you have?”

• A - “Getting it right at the source.”

• Q - “What was an important failure or setback that became an important learning lesson for you in the studio or in your musical journey?

• A - “The more I learned about the proper way to record music, the less time I spent creating it.”

• Q - “Tell us about a moment of success in your recording career.”

• A - “Listening back to old recordings and noticing how the emotion of the songs are still coming through, even after so much time.”

• Q - “Where can we find your album “Better This Way?”

• A - “You can find it at http://www.joegildermusic.com/

• Q - “Tell us about something you’re excited about right now.”

• A - “I am most excited about writing more music, especially in the studio with my drummer and bassist.”

• Q - “How do you imagine capturing that writing process with a group of people like that?”

• A - “I think it would be let’s just set up a recording session and jam until we come up with something or jam to a click to build a track that way.”

The “Jam Session” Q&A:

• Q - “What was holding you back from getting started in recording?”

• A - “Feeling like I had to do everything myself.”

• Q - “What was some of the best advice you received about recording?”

• A - “Get it right at the source.”

• Q - “How about a tip hack or secret sauce that you would like to share from your experience?”

• A - “Committing to time-based effects at the time of the recording.”

• Q - “Do you have a favorite book you would like to share?”

• A - “I love The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.”

• Q - “Can you share a favorite hardware tool of the studio?”

• A - “I love the Avid Eleven Rack for the different guitar tones I can get.”

• Q - “How about a favorite software tool?”

• A - “Presonus Studio One. I don’t even have Pro Tools installed anymore.”

• Q - “Would you like to just drop a reference to one favorite new feature that exists in it that you’re liking a lot right now?”

• A - “I like the feature that lets you to route the plug-in chain on any channel and split the signal, and do different things on each part of the signal”

• Q - “How about a great resource for the business part of the recording studio?”

• A - “The Audio Income Project is the great resource for freelance engineers at http://www.audioincome.com/sp/24311-order”

• Q - “If you were dropped into a strange city and you could only take a simple setup for recording, what would you choose, how would you find people to record, and how would you make ends meet right away to continue recording?”

• A - “The rig - a laptop with Presonus, an interface, and a mic. People to record - you have to go to where the musicians are and find them.

• Q - “What if someone is in a town that doesn’t have many musicians?”

• A - “Everything can be done online now. http://crowdaudio.com/ is a great place for finding songs to mix.”

• Q - “How can our listeners follow you?”

• A - “http://www.homestudiocorner.com/,

• https://twitter.com/joegildermusic,

• https://www.facebook.com/joegilder

For more about Joe go to

HomeStudioCorner.com

So if you have any questions or suggestions for the show please email me

lij@recordingstudiorockstars.com

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Intro:

Mike purcell has a long list of recording, mixing and mastering credits including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Brad Paisley, Waylon Jennings, and Billy Ray Cyrus. He is a recording artist himself, and has a passion for indie rock. He is also an entrepreneur with many business ventures.

He grew up in Nashville, and started playing guitar when he was 14. He began recording with 2 cassette decks and a Radioshack mixer, and his first recording studio experience in 1988 solidified his passion for recording.

Early Career:

Mike attended Belmont University from 1990-1994. He interned at The Castle recording studio and was offered a job there for $150/week. He later went to LA for a six month trip to record Lionel Richie.

When he returned to Nashville, he got a ProTools rig and was very into digital audio. He did a lot of vocal tuning work at this time. He would also often record using the Otari RADAR II digital multitrack recorder.

Demo Recording:

A demo recording is done for songwriters who want to pitch something to a recording artist. These songs are often done with session musicians who do not rehearse extensively before the session, because they can sight-read the charts.

At County Q studio, Mike would record a high volume of demos in a single day. Because of his ability and experience as an engineer, and the quality of the session musicians, they were able to record songs very quickly and efficiently.

Philosphy/Advice:

-What comes next in the recording industry is what you invent. Don’t be afraid to try new things and make mistakes.

-Mike Purcell prefers to find music he loves, and capture it, rather than finding music that he kind of likes and reinventing it.

-Take every job you can if it has anything to do with music. Take the gigs that you’re uncomfortable taking; you’re probably uncomfortable because you don’t know much about it, so you’ll probably learn from the experience.

-Don’t have an ego as an engineer. Try to fulfill the client’s vision rather than your own.

-Get hooked up with someone who is successful and doing something that you want to be a part of. Do the best job out of anybody there, and confess to your mistakes, and you’re likely to be successful.

Jam session:

-what was holding you back at the beginning of your career?

-lack of resources to and access to the good studios. That’s different now, because you can buy ProTools.

-what was some of the best advice you’ve received?

-do it right and do it once.

-What is your favorite recording trick?

-Sidechain compress the bass, using the kick drum as a key input, and squash it down half a dB. It helps keep kick punch through the mix.

-Do you have any book or magazine recommendations?

-Abbey Road book.

-Tape Op magazine.

-Favorite piece of gear that you have?

-SansAmp gt 2.

-Favorite software tool?

-I use an old standalone version of T-RackS (version 3) for mastering. You can get stuff really loud with it.

-Favorite internet resource?

-Facebook

-If you were dropped in a strange city, and could only take a simple recording setup, what would you take? How would you find people to record? How would you make ends meet?

-Take a simple m-box setup with a couple of mics.

-Go to shows to meet bands.

-Deliver pizzas or something like that to make ends meet.

Links to Check Out:

-Mike’s current project, 6minor Films, which creates documentary films about the music creation process:

-Website

-Facebook

-Youtube

-Mike’s facebook

-County Q website

So if you have any questions or suggestions for the show please email me

lij@recordingstudiorockstars.com

If you dig the show and find it helpful I would be honored if you would leave a rating and review in iTunes. You can tap through right on your phone from the podcast search page or go to recordingstudiorockstars.com/review for easy instructions.

And if you want to get on the email list for free content full of videos, tips, studio tricks, and special offers just text RSROCKSTARS to 33-444 from your phone (super easy and I promise you won’t get spammed!)

Cheers!

Lij