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This is one of the coolest damn things I’ve ever seen someone from the industry who carries some weight take part in. After a little back and forth with Michael the other night, I started daydreaming about getting him to produce a song for me and I started devising all these ideas on how to get an unsolicited song into his hands. Turns out, I don’t need to devise anything!
michaelbeinhorn.com
He doesn’t take on a lot of big name work anymore and wants to lend a hand to the regular Joe Schmo’s, so you can purchase his services ala cart and the pricing is surprisingly reasonable! For $30 he’ll listen to a song and give you his initial impressions of it. From there you can start stacking on more services, all the way up to getting him to remotely accessing your DAW to have him literally pushing the buttons for you as if you were in a studio with him. He listens in his badass home studio in real time.
I’m going to start off with the Scratch service, where he listens to a song and gives you his feedback. After that I’ll book a couple 30 minute sessions with him and hammer it out. I have zero desire to make a commercially viable song, I just want to have this song recorded the best I possibly can because it’s an important one to me. The idea to hire him for this came after reading his story about sitting with Jonathon Davis after they did the demo for “Alone I Break” and Jonathon not being able to comprehend how he wrote a song like that, with Michael finding it endearing. Of the dozens of songs I’ve written/recorded, I have one that was like that for me, where even 5 years later I still can’t believe it happened the way it did.
A good amount of you have heard this before-
The story on this one is that I bought a Classic 50’s Strat one day and the first thing I played on it after setting it up was the first riff heard in the song. It’s not even an overly interesting riff, but for some reason I felt compelled to jump up and record it. As I recorded it the acoustic part popped in my head and the entire rest of that session was racing to track the ideas as fast as they were coming to my head. 98% of that song is the first, improvised take, including the vocals/lyrics. The 2% that’s not are the double/quad tracking and the solo that required a few takes as I’m a shitty slide player. I had to bury the chorus take because of the overlapping lines, but the original still makes up one of the 4 tracks of vocals. It all took about 45 minutes from the first time I played that riff on my couch to the time I got to listen to the whole song in it’s entirety and I can absolutely relate to Jonathon Davis looking in his hands saying “I can’t believe I did this” when they did the demo for “Alone I Break”, there’s a ton of first times in there for me; writing/recording a non-metal song in standard tuning, writing in 3/4, using a capo for that purpose, playing a slide solo, using synths for more than bass bombs and sound effects, using a choir
There’s a couple things I’m re-doing now before I send it to Michael, I didn’t want to mess with anything until I was removed enough from the situation that spurred those lyrics, but I want to hit up the things I’m certain he would point out during his first listen so he can focus on the things I’m not already aware of. I’ve wanted a taskmaster in the studio who isn’t me for a long time, I’m really fucking anxious to see what can happen when I’m trying to meet someone else’s standard other than my own.
I’ll document how it all goes here in this thread. I wish more producers would offer this kind of service, I’d be squirreling away cash for Brendan O’Brien and Toby Wright. Or getting Andy Wallace to mix something for me.
Services – Michael Beinhorn
michaelbeinhorn.com
He doesn’t take on a lot of big name work anymore and wants to lend a hand to the regular Joe Schmo’s, so you can purchase his services ala cart and the pricing is surprisingly reasonable! For $30 he’ll listen to a song and give you his initial impressions of it. From there you can start stacking on more services, all the way up to getting him to remotely accessing your DAW to have him literally pushing the buttons for you as if you were in a studio with him. He listens in his badass home studio in real time.
I’m going to start off with the Scratch service, where he listens to a song and gives you his feedback. After that I’ll book a couple 30 minute sessions with him and hammer it out. I have zero desire to make a commercially viable song, I just want to have this song recorded the best I possibly can because it’s an important one to me. The idea to hire him for this came after reading his story about sitting with Jonathon Davis after they did the demo for “Alone I Break” and Jonathon not being able to comprehend how he wrote a song like that, with Michael finding it endearing. Of the dozens of songs I’ve written/recorded, I have one that was like that for me, where even 5 years later I still can’t believe it happened the way it did.
A good amount of you have heard this before-
The story on this one is that I bought a Classic 50’s Strat one day and the first thing I played on it after setting it up was the first riff heard in the song. It’s not even an overly interesting riff, but for some reason I felt compelled to jump up and record it. As I recorded it the acoustic part popped in my head and the entire rest of that session was racing to track the ideas as fast as they were coming to my head. 98% of that song is the first, improvised take, including the vocals/lyrics. The 2% that’s not are the double/quad tracking and the solo that required a few takes as I’m a shitty slide player. I had to bury the chorus take because of the overlapping lines, but the original still makes up one of the 4 tracks of vocals. It all took about 45 minutes from the first time I played that riff on my couch to the time I got to listen to the whole song in it’s entirety and I can absolutely relate to Jonathon Davis looking in his hands saying “I can’t believe I did this” when they did the demo for “Alone I Break”, there’s a ton of first times in there for me; writing/recording a non-metal song in standard tuning, writing in 3/4, using a capo for that purpose, playing a slide solo, using synths for more than bass bombs and sound effects, using a choir
There’s a couple things I’m re-doing now before I send it to Michael, I didn’t want to mess with anything until I was removed enough from the situation that spurred those lyrics, but I want to hit up the things I’m certain he would point out during his first listen so he can focus on the things I’m not already aware of. I’ve wanted a taskmaster in the studio who isn’t me for a long time, I’m really fucking anxious to see what can happen when I’m trying to meet someone else’s standard other than my own.
I’ll document how it all goes here in this thread. I wish more producers would offer this kind of service, I’d be squirreling away cash for Brendan O’Brien and Toby Wright. Or getting Andy Wallace to mix something for me.
