GFM Recording Studios

Friday night at home… 👀 Here’s a little taste of what a Friday night looks like at Live at GFM. 🎶

An intimate room. Incredible music. An artist sharing their songs just a few feet away.

Here’s Logan Miles Olson performing “Clarity” live at GFM.

The videos are great…

But there’s nothing quite like being in the room. ❤️

✨ What an incredible experience at GFM last night.

It was amazing seeing the studio transform for the Infused Sound Healing Experience and getting behind the board to help bring it all together. 🎶✨

A huge thank you to Infused Sound Healing who made the evening possible and everyone who came out to experience it.🙏

🎛️ One Production Decision // Episode 21

Don't give the listener everything at once.

Sometimes a simple sound, instrument, or musical idea can become the thread that carries a song from beginning to end.

Introduce it early. Let the listener get familiar with it.

Then, as the song develops, let it develop too.

Add harmonies. Build the arrangement around it. Expand the sound. Bring in new layers. Give the listener something familiar, but in a new way.

The goal isn't to make every section sound bigger than the last.

It's to give the song somewhere to go.

Introduce the idea. Develop it. Let it grow.

Because sometimes the best way to keep a listener interested is to give them a reason to keep listening. 🎶

🩺Audio Medicine🎶

Mixing from the top down.

Sometimes the best way to get a mix moving is to start with the whole picture.

In this one, Brian is working from the mix bus down, using the Neve MBT and SSL Fusion to shape the overall character, energy, and feel of the track before getting too deep into the individual elements.

It's a different way of thinking about mixing:

Start with the big picture. Then work your way in.

This one is for Desire X, coming to us all the way from Bristol, England. 🇬🇧

✨ Something different is happening at GFM tonight…
The room is set. The lights are low. The frequencies are waiting. 🔔🌿

Getting ready for an Infused Sound Healing experience unlike anything we’ve done before.

Now we wait for the room to come alive… ✨

ImmersiveSound

🎛️ One Production Decision // Episode 20

Density isn't the same as track count.

Here's a fun one:

The verse actually has more tracks than the chorus.

But which section feels bigger?

The chorus.

That's because a bigger-sounding section isn't necessarily about how many elements are playing, it's about what those elements are doing. Their energy, arrangement, dynamics, frequency, movement, and how much space they've been given.

You can have 30 tracks playing and still have a section feel small.

You can have 10 tracks and make the whole thing feel huge.

Don't count the tracks. Listen to the impact.