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May 17, 2005
Allow Myself to Introduce Myself
That’s me. I’m the project studio guy!
I own and operate my recording studio here in Cocoa, FL.
I was a musician before I was a recording engineer, and now I do both.
I’ve arranged, recorded, and produced albums in every style of music except heavy metal.
My wife Sheryl and I have been working with musicians for over 15 years now. When I say “working with,” what am I talking about?
It’s hard to describe what we do in a few pithy sentences. I can start by saying “we have a recording studio.” You might be thinking “Great. You have a studio? 10,000 other guys have studios.”
We love making music in our studio; we love the whole recording process. The folks we’ve worked with range from accomplished performing songwriters who are looking to produce the next in a long line of professional and successful recordings, to absolute beginners who needed to learn that a full-length CD took more than a week to produce.
Let me start off by saying that we are both musicians. Sheryl is a guitarist and vocalist, and I (Leon) am a keyboard player. Sheryl is also a computer expert, and I…well, I can move a mouse pretty well. Our project studio is set up for ProTools based recording. And so are hundreds of other studios.
We’re musicians, we’re recording engineers, but what else?
Sometimes we end up being counselors: We’ve had artists pour out their life stories to us…tell us their dreams and hopes. We must be easy to talk to. They ask us what we think about their plans.
Sometimes we end up being coaches. Helping someone re-write a song, punch up a lyric, add a harmony part, form a marketing plan.
A few times we’ve even become arbitrators for disagreeing musicians. We’ve helped solve disagreements, reach productive compromises.
Overall, we are facilitators. We bring musical dreams to life.
I’ll be telling you about our day-to-day experiences working with would-be stars, crazy songwriters, and some true artists.
Stay tuned!
http://www.solocreativemedia.com
Posted by leon at May 17, 2005 01:42 PM
Comments
Hey Leon! Finally got here! This is great!See ya soon!
Spike
Posted by: Spike at June 19, 2005 10:31 AM