Friday, June 02, 2006
TheMusiCo
The last couple of weeks have picked up quite a bit for the studio. We've been very busy. If not from recording, then from correspondence.
Last week, we recorded Artist at the Scene. They recorded upstairs in one of their houses. For keeping all their scratch tracks instead of recording guitars and bass separate, I was pleasently surprised with the final mix. Thankfully, so were they.
This week, we recorded Snipe-n-Spiktakula, of Momentum Records fame. The song will be on MTV soon. They're shooting the video in two weeks. I haven't done hip-hop in a long while, and it was my first time to record an artist in that genre. I've only written beats for artists before. Currently, I'm writing beats for a Raggae artist and perhaps an R&B artist soon. It's fun, and pretty simple, but recording hip-hop was much different than I expected. A lot of tracks, and multiple vocal overdubs. One song has took 3.5 hours to record, and going on 4-5 hours to mix/master. It's been a bit of a culture shock to me, growing up the white middle-class that I did, but it's been fun as well. I've learned a lot, and I also have been wanting the company to break into that genre. Spik has shown interest in joining the company too. He's got a good resume for audio engineering.
Speaking of (or rather writing of) engineers... We have one rookie going into training that just joined us, and another that we're meeting with soon who just moved down from New York. Should all work out, and Spik bring in the hip-hop scene, we'll have 3 engineers and possible producers keeping things going in Houston when I move to Colorado. The expansion into another state looks more promising every day.
This leaves me in much anticipation of the new company. There's still a lot of goundwork to be done, but it appears that "getting the right people on the bus" and getting a clearer picture of exactly where the bus is headed, is truly becoming something of a flywheel effect. That is, it's picking up momentum and getting easier as the days go by. That's also a direct reference to Jim Collins amazing studies into what makes companies great; an author that I highly recommend to entrepenuers everywhere.
Sunday will be filled with writing Raggae beats. Next week, I'm going to try and finish some of my own songs, and see if we can give a good nudge to all the artists that have contacted us about our studio's buy-out special (or rather "change-over special" - that just doesn't sound as good). I've thought myself to be rather insane for pricing things so low laely, and I'm looking forward to the new company running their somewhat more expensive grand-opening special in a couple of weeks.
Check out the studio's myspace above. It won't be the same for much longer.
