Pre-Production

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So you are ready to professionally record your music, and you've been jamming them live for weeks/months/years but at best you've heard room recordings or had some quick videos to assess.  The recording process puts everything under the microscope, so before you commit to a final recording process creating some good drafts will allow you to assess things like individual instrument parts and vocal parts and how well they work together, and provide a chance to fine tune things before you start the process of a professional recording for release and distribution to your audience.

Pre-production can also be a good way to test concepts of things that may not be possible live (or not easy to accomplish).  A pre-production recording can establish things like specific song structure/key/tempo changes or provide the opportunity to have a clear recording of basic instrument and vocal tracking to experiment with instrument/vocal overdubbing or the addition of additional performed or programmed instrumentation and sound design. 

The process of pre-production is meant to be a sketchpad to aid in the final production of any project, and gives an opportunity to draft material for final recordings here or to use as a cost effective way to begin the process if you plan to make arrangements to record at another facility for any reason.  The following is a short list of pre-production tasks/activities that may be valuable to your project:

1. "Live" Multitrack Recording - Perform in studio, as if you were performing live/rehearsing with all instrumentation individually recorded to hear how the song is being performed in detail for assessment/fine tuning
2. Tempo Mapping / Song Arrangement - working together to determine a fixed tempo, or an arrangement of tempos to best perform the song, and determine the length of song sections and utilize the digital audio workstation to edit song pieces to make a rough draft of a song.
3. MIDI Drum and Instrument Programming - You may be a single songwriter or group an you are missing a drummer or another key instrumentalist, we can utilize in house drum and synthesizer hardware and software and program or utilize in house MIDI/Sample Libraries to help develop instrumentation to complete your song arrangements.