Welcome to our little corner on SoGospel News! We hope that in the months to come, you will find an abundance of information here that will help you feel more prepared to go into the studio to record your project. For those of you who don't know who I am, let me introduce myself.
My name is Daniel Riley, I sing baritone for Gold City, and I have Goldmine Recording Studios. I have been engineering and producing for the past twelve years. God has allowed me the honor of being involved in many projects with many artists. There is nothing more fulfilling than helping an artist make music that glorifies the Lord. God has also blessed me with some great engineers to help lighten my load. I would like to introduce one of those engineers to you. David Kight brings to The Goldmine almost 25 years experience in engineering, producing, publishing and songwriting. He owned Westwind Productions in Canton, GA for several years, working with some of the top groups in this industry and many up & coming artists before joining my team. We are proud to have him and our clients are falling in love with his gentle approach in the studio. David has recently written a booklet called "Recording A Gospel Music Project." After reading it myself, I believe it should be required reading for any artist planning to record a project. I liked it so much that I asked David if he would mind using this space to share some of that info over the next few months. He has agreed, and I know you are going to enjoy it. This information will help you no matter where you plan to record, but we would love to have you at Goldmine Recording.
For more info, please visit www.goldminerecordingstudios.com and tune in next month for more tips on recording.
God Bless,
Daniel Riley
Author: Daniel Riley
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Written: 06/16/2003
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Lets say a up and coming group would come to your studio to do a project. The agreed price would be 8000.00 for a complete project and one single release. They paid down 4000.00 and signed the contract. When they began to lay scratch vocals you could see that they were not prepared vocally and would require some vocal tuning which was not included in the orginal price. Plus you could see they are not ready in the other aspects of the music ministry either. What would you do? And has this ever happened to you before and who to? Also how can I get the book " Recording a gospel music project"
Galen, first of all, I am a recording studio, not a record company. I do not release singles to radio, promote groups, or enter into any contracts with artists. In fact, I strongly discourage most any regional or part time group from releasing singles to radio. It is usually a waste of your money unless you are willing to spend 5 or 6k. Second, I always lay out what you get for $x and anything above and beyond that will be your responsibility. If your vocals need tuning, it will cost extra unless it was included in the package. If you don't have it in your budget, they don't get tuned. You just end up with good quality pitchy vocals. Whether an artist is ready for any aspect of the music ministry is not my business, but if someone asks my opinion, I always give it honestly. And yes, it costs me their business sometimes. A couple of years ago, I lost a client to a studio that told them what they wanted to hear. If you don't want to know the truth, don't ask. I hope this was helpful.
Hey Daniel ... Glad to see you on SoGospelNews.com !!!! can't wait to read upcoming tips. Hope to see you and GC soon.
Daniel -- I sing baritone in a part time quartet and also produce our recordings. Our last two projects have been fairly involved in terms of full orchestration, keyboards, tuning, mixing, mastering, several studios, etc. I've always been curious about how the "big" groups (i.e. Gold City) use isolation when recording their vocal tracks. I've always gone for as complete isolation as possible for each voice (private booth or at least extensive baffling) so that it's easier to fix problem parts in the studio and do tuning afterwards with no bleed over of other vocals onto each track. However, most studios I've seen on the web don't seem to have much isolation capability in their rooms and using baffling doesn't always get it done. And I've seen pictures in the past of some SG groups recording vocals together around four mikes in one room with no isolation. Is that the norm? How does Gold City do it? Thanks in advance for your reply!
Kent-
Daniel, you are probably just too nice to say it, but one of my pet peeves is groups who want to record a CD and don't even know the material they are about to record. I keep telling young artists to practice the material they are going to record until they are sick of it.
They recording studio and producer does not have time to make sure that you are prepared when you come into the studio. That is YOUR responsibility as an artist.
As far as recording in isolation, we did that and I hated it. It was so much harder that seeing the emotion of everyone together singing, much like you do in concert. So many times we are timing off of little things that the other singers are doing, and we don't even realize it until we are isolated in a booth trying to sing.
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Deon- that does bug me. Why would anybody want to pay $75 per hour to learn songs? My living room is tons cheaper! I have been paid mucho bucks to sit and listen to somebody rehearse, so I'll not complain much. I always tell my clients that their rehearsal hall is tons less expensive than mine!
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