FAQs
- What types of customers have you worked with?
The most common job we do for our customers is 1-3 songs produced/engineered/mixed and mastered. Even if you are a complete beginner, we guide you through the entire recording process from beginning to end and make sure you walk away with a final mix that both of us can be proud of. We know what makes a song sound professional ("radio ready"), and we will help you to achieve that same standard.
- Describe a recent project you are fond of. How long did it take?
This fall found me at the Rough cut screening for Theres nothing out here downtown at Dirty Dels which is a concert film I did live recording for. The Film features San Diego favorites Transfer,Circa Now,The Drowning Men, Lady Dottie and the Diamonds, and many more. Can't wait to see the final product!
- What advice would you give a customer looking to hire a provider in your area of work?
Music Production Tip #11 (from my blog www.ryanpoolemusic.com) Problem: You have an Amazing song Idea that you dont want to forget. Solution : Just get it Down! My good Friend Josh is a whiz Song-Writer; he is always writing a new hit-song. My mom is a a great song writer too. Well at least she says she is In truth, I have never heard a single one of my moms songs. I have no idea if she can write or not! What does Josh have that my mom doesnt? a tape recorder Thats right, a glorified piece of 1980′s technology turns a good idea into a great song! You dont have to be retro-at-heart to be a great songwriter, either. My secret to Songwriting is a little iPhone app called iTalk; it allows me to record CD quality memos. Mine is almost exclusively filled with song ideas (going back 2 years now). Getting the idea down is absolutely key! By Recording your Song ideas . 1. You can Remember your Song at All! 2. You can get outside of yourself When I write a new song I am almost always tempted to think of my new creation as a masterpiece. It is only because I can look at the song 3 days later, (when I am no longer in the steamy creative heat of writing the worlds next mega-hit) that I am able to realize that my hit is really . a.) a rip-off of an actual hit b.) a rip-off of another song I already wrote c.) complete-and utter crap 3. You can turn a good song into a great song! When I set about recording my own album I wrote around 30 songs. I knew from the beginning that I only wanted about 12 complete songs on the record. Why waste so much good material? Because most of it sucked! I can be positive that it sucked, too. I made CDs of the original demos for my friends, and asked them to help rate them. Very few people listened to the CDs and fewer still responded. But I was able to find a few Jems that people did actually enjoy. From there, I took the top 12 songs and recorded demos in pro-tools, and only then, I went to a real studio and recorded them for real. Yes, I re-recorded all of the songs for a third time! In the end however, it was worth it because all of the drafts led to a final product that was FAR better, than my original amazing ideas. What did I use to record my original demos? Garage Band. Not even separate tracks or multiple takes. Just one-pass, laptop microphone, one-track monophonic demos. It is easy to get caught up in the details early on and loose your initial vision Just record something, anything! Even if you have to call your moms answering machine and use your mouth to make instrument sounds so that you will remember. It doesnt matter. As long as you communicate the musical idea in your mind in a way that is 1.Retrievable and 2.Understandable to you. So, Write away! Make quick-easy demoes to remember your ideas, weed-out the bad songs & spend your time tweaking and pimping out your best ideas! E-mail me at RyanEPoole@gmail.com with any questions, or if youd like me to personally help you take your quick-demos and turn them into