Welcome! We are excited to begin this journey with you!
Let's start with this list of resources, links, and information that will help prepare you! These will not only help you with our time together, but also for your future artist self!
Congrats for taking this big step forward with your art, and thank you for trusting us with your baby. We are here for you.
- Josh and team GLS
Important Links to Download
(For remote clients)
Zoom Download Center - This is the method most of us got familiar with over the last few years. It is one of the easiest ways to work together remotely.
Audiomovers - This is a plugin for any time you need to stream audio from your DAW directly to me, in high quality. No need to sign up for an account (you will likely use mine) but have this installed and ready if we are going to be listening to your DAW from afar!
Important Things To Save
Your Onboarding Email - This is the “link haven” for your individual project needs, and we will be using it throughout the project to deliver and upload files. Within the onboarding email you should have:
A Filepass link for YOU to hear uploaded songs as we progress
A Google Drive folder to track progress, work on lyrics, etc
A personal Dropbox link to upload to
A booking link from Calendly, which is a scheduling app to easily arrange meetings. It allows you to select a time that is convenient for you, without multiple calls or emails.
Onboarding Page - That’s this page! You can bookmark it, or star/save the email it came in along with your individual links, but having this on hand is a great resource.
The Legend of Zoom: Link to Our Future
We may not have to go on a quest to save Zelda, but we do want to change the world, one song at a time. This is the only meeting place for all calls during our time together. Ignore Google if it ever tries to tell you to go to Google Meet. If, for any rare reason, we will not be meeting in this personal zoom room, I will let you know!
Bookmark this link. https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2805755116?pwd=YmNvSUQ2Y2c0WkdlMlZ5bGhVdVVGUT09
Rescheduling Calls
On occasions, life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans. If we need to rearrange our meeting times, we can avoid extra back and forth using this method:
Go to the event in your calendar and decline or delete the event. I’ll be notified!
Use this Calendly link to book another time. If we have discussed a firm deadline and you need availability outside of what’s showing up, reach out to me and we can make it work.
Sending Files
Please review our mixing requirements guide for how to submit your stems HERE.
No matter what, please include a “rough mix” of where your song is currently, wherever that level may be. This ensures that we have something to compare to both to hear your initial vision, but also to make sure we aren’t missing any important elements!
Preparing For Our Pre-Production Call
1. Send over all current demos in whatever form they exist now. Use the Dropbox upload link in your onboarding email.
2. Include lyrics in a doc in your google drive folder.
3. A quick pondering you can do between now and our pre-production conversation! Great things to get you thinking a bit out of the box :)
• What emotions do you want the listener to experience with your song(s)?
• What non-musical descriptors come to mind to describe what you like in music? Think weird phrases like “dark chocolate”, “the feeling of holding someone close and crying” or “when your shitty ex texts you and you immediately get anxious”. You can describe scenes from a movie (real or made up in your head), memories in your life, it’s truly limitless!
• If your song is going to be between the songs of other artists on a playlist, who would those artists and songs be? This isn’t to pigeonhole you or to copy. This is to make sure that what we work on together stands out while also fitting in with your peers.
• What songs do you HATE? This is always fun!