Comments on: One-Hour Challenge

By: Deadlines: The Key To Productivity | The Recording Revolution

Deadlines: The Key To Productivity | The Recording Revolution — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:26:43 +0000

[...] by my good friend Joe Gilder over at HomeStudioCorner.com. He wrote an article recently about the one hour challenge. I actually took this the other day and wrote a brand new song in 60 [...]

By: Joe Gilder

Joe Gilder — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:50:38 +0000

Thank you, Patrick. That’s one of the reasons I started HSC.

By: Patrick Noonan

Patrick Noonan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:34:24 +0000

Just stumbled across this site while searching google for articles about bass management during mix down, and have now spent an hour or so looking through your articles. I was blown away when I came across this one that had an actual audio sample, there’s so many “home studio guide” type websites that are either too scared to put up something from their own studio or they do and it sounds terrible. The song itself is definitely simple, but awesome in it’s simplicity, like Who Says by John Mayer. The RECORDING itself is really clean and professional to my ears, the level was soft next to a commercial recording but obviously the loudness war is it’s own topic… In any case really great stuff here man, you’re voice sounds killer too, and without a condenser to boot. I’ll definitely be reading through the rest of your articles and following you on twitter, I’m thankful to have found this.

By: Jones FoSho

Jones FoSho — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:51:14 +0000

wonderful

By: Joe Gilder

Joe Gilder — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:33:27 +0000

Thanks! I love my Taylor 314ce.

By: bilco

bilco — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:32:34 +0000

Great guitar sound! You have a cool voice too. That is a lot of work to get done in an hour

By: Joe Gilder

Joe Gilder — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:19:02 +0000

Thank you, Mike. Ha ha. Do it in 15?!?! The hardest part of the challenge was the fact that I burned 4 minutes with every take I did. Just to record each of the parts, including the scratch tracks, took up 20 minutes!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:16:51 +0000

Ok, now do it in 15 minutes…LOL!
I love to do those kinds of challanges with song writing.
You’ve got a nice voice!! Thanks again for this site
you’ve got alot of great info.

Mike

By: Joe Gilder

Joe Gilder — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:07:09 +0000

Absolutely. I’ve shot myself in the foot so many times be jumping into recording without knowing the song well enough.

By: Ben O'Brien Smith

Ben O'Brien Smith — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:59:16 +0000

Great job! It’s always fun to set up certain challenges for yourself in music, be it recording, or writing. You did some great work in one hour. I sure you benefitted greatly from being well rehearsed with the song. So often I record people who haven’t put in their fair share of prep time on the material and we either do far too many takes or I tell them to go back and practice a bit more.