How To Make Every New Production or Song Bring You Pure Possibilities

As you might already know, I recently bought a house.

When we were looking for houses one of the biggest criteria I looked for was a space I could use as a studio.

My new home includes a renovated studio apartment with its own entrance that’s big enough to be a mixing room/overdub room and practice space for the band.

Three birds?

Meet my one stone!

I couldn’t be happier about this because it allows me so much creative freedom to make this space into exactly what I want.

I’ve told you this before but I’ll repeat it again. It’s not just the studio I’m excited about. The whole house is awesome!

And this new house brings new possibilities. It’s an empty framework for us to really create something that we like.

It’s kind of like that with producing.

Whether you’re recording or mixing you have a lot of “empty canvas” space to fill up before you think the production process is done.

A song can start as being just a few chords, a melody and a few lines of lyrics before it becomes a huge rock ballad.

The same goes for a sparse recording of drums, bass and scratch vocal tracks. After overdubs you’ll have a completely different song on your hands you can be proud of.

And mixing is so creative because there are so many different ways you can take the recorded tracks.

You can give them a really polished and produced sound, leave them rough and edgy or completely change them through EQ, compression and effects. What have in your hands at that point isn’t the finished product.

Not by a long shot.

There’s always something more you can do to it.

It’s like what we’ve been doing in The Long Wait these past few months over at Patreon. We show you how the rough scratch tracks become a fully produced and mixed song by letting you inside the production process.

That’s why I’m so excited about the new studio. Because there’s so much “empty canvas” to fill with all the cool possibilities I have in my mind.

If you’re struggling to finish songs and bring your productions from a rough idea to a fully produced product I’ve actually got something cool for you.

Joe Gilder gets a little loopy every once in a while and decides to slash the prices of his 19 week Production Club course.

Instead of the normal $497 price tag he’s discounting it aaaaaall the way down to only $199.

That’s about 60% off the normal price so if you’ve ever wanted a one-top course that’ll teach you the entire production process now is your chance.

And if you’re thinking “ouch! that’s still so much money” think about it this way:

Instead of buying a new piece of gear that’ll cost you more than that, how about you learn to use the gear you already have and improve your skills to create MORE music?

Improve your brain power skills to make the most of your gear but more importantly, make the most of the decisions that make you create great sounding tracks.

That’s what you’ll get out of the Production Club.

But that’s not all…

I also have a little $97 course called Music Production Strategies that I will give you for absolutely free if you sign up for Joe’s course today.

It’s a 5 week course that analyzes popular music productions of the last 40 years.

It’s a quirky collection of interesting and different songs throughout the years.

What you get in the course is:

• In-depth reports for each song discussing the song structure, arrangement of instruments and the value the audio production and sound choices bring to the song.
• Arrangement graphics that let you follow the arrangement and instrumentation while you listen to the songs.
• Videos detailing the most important aspects to consider when listening to these songs (that you can also apply to any song you want for that matter).
• Action steps to help you analyze your own productions and songwriting.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll learn:

1. The chord progression trick in “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” that separates the amateurs from the Elton Johns.
2. The easy way “Locked Out of Heaven” by Bruno Mars creates new sections in a song, even if you’re using the same three chords.
3. How to get the quirky guitar sound in Steely Dan’s “Reelin’ in the Years.” Hint, it’s not a guitar amp…
4. How counter-melodies can add a completely new dimension to a song and take it to a new level.
5. How to use buildups effectively to create incredible dynamics.
6. The quirky panning techniques you can learn from The Offspring.
7. How to use master buss compression to create dynamic changes in different parts of a song.
8. Making the most of textures in a sparse arrangement.

Make no mistake, this course is closed to new members.

But for you, I’ll make an exception!

I’m opening it up for anyone who buys Joe Gilder’s Production Club before Monday night.

Simply send me an email with your receipt after you’ve bought through my link and I’ll give you access for completely free.

Here’s where you go to get started:

www.audioissues.com/productionclub

image by: Chris Blakeley

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