We can turn your song ideas into reality!
What is Lonestar Songcrafters?
Have you ever wished you could go to Nashville of L.A. to record your songs for either release or demos using first call session musicians? The North Texas area, where we are, has some of the best session players in the country and we regularly work with many of them on sessions. These players easily rival what you can get Nashville, but for a much more affordable price and they’ll be more interactive and willing to work WITH you to realize the vision you have for your music, rather than the assembly line approach that you often get in Nashville.
We at Crystal Clear have partnered with a long time client and friend of the studio, producer and bass player Pete Miller, to create Lonestar Songcrafters - a full service production house based at Dallas' premier recording studio, Crystal Clear Sound. Whether you want to demo your songs, do a full blown album project or anything in between, we can help you bring your music to the rest of the world. From start to finish, we can help with song arranging, set chords and harmony to your melody, contract the best and most appropriate studio musicians that North Texas has to offer for your project, record, mix, master and produce a world-class track for you.
WHAT WE DO
Pre-Production
Professional assistance with pre-production including song arranging, charts, selecting and contracting studio musicians and determining the project budget
What We Do
Recording and Mixing
Your song will be recorded and mixed at our first class professional studio with an experienced producer and North Texas' top session players.
Custom Music & Collaboration
Need help finishing up some lyrics or putting chords to your melody? Or want to collaborate with an experienced songwriter? We've got it covered. We can also create full custom music to suit the style and needs you're looking for.
Final Product
We offer a full turnkey operation from start to finish for your music including mastering for itunes, streaming, vinyl and cd as well as CD duplication and replication. We are a one- stop-shop for your needs. You will end up with a professional commercial product ready for release.
The Process
The Process
Production of your song starts with careful and detailed coordination with an experienced producer. We start with your budgeting, and tailor the correct package to fit the genre, sound and vision that you, the artist, ultimately are looking for for your art.
Budget
It’s important to manage a project’s expenses for the sake of efficiencies, and for the integrity of the final product. We start by submitting a proposal to you based on the direction and scope of your vision. The proposal is detailed enough, with line items for each phase, that you will feel at ease with how your funds are being allocated and know exactly what all costs are.
Pre-Production
The pre-production phase is critical to the process. Our producer works with you in preparing the song(s) before the sessions begin. We will refine the arrangement to ensure the appeal you are striving for and the audience you wish to reach, which will include determining the proper and appropriate form, style and instrumentation. By the end of this phase you and the producer will have a clear understanding of the direction of your music and will chart the song in a form that will convey this to the session musicians.
Tracking
The session is scheduled and the musicians are booked. This is where it starts to get exciting. The proper preparation allows your session to move at a fast pace – maintaining efficiencies – to provide for an energetic and creative session. This is where having the combined experience of a professional recording team - creative musicians, an artistic and engineer and your experienced producer - provides the biggest payoff for you, as they work to manifest your song ideas into lively, energetic works of art. Once these bedrock rhythm tracks are laid, we can then overdub any additional instruments we have deemed appropriate, and then it's on to the recording of the vocal tracks!
Mixing
With proper pre-production and a successful tracking session in a world class studio, getting a great mix of your song is assured in the hands of a first-class engineer and your producer. You can think of the mixing of the different instruments into a final version of your song like a painter blending the colors of the palette onto a canvas to create a visual image. Obtaining a powerful final mix of your song is a vital part of our partnership with you to translate your vision into an impactful musical statement to the rest of the world, and this is something of particular expertise for the Lonestar Songcrafters production team. And it is always our goal to maintain your budget while not compromising your art.
Mastering
Once your song has been mixed, the final step of the recording process is mastering. Mastering is where your mix is prepared for distribution to the world. Mastering makes your mix sparkle! The mastering process enhances the important sonic qualities of an already good mix to take it to the next level and to make it competitive in terms of volume and frequency. Our partner studio, Crystal Clear Sound, offers top notch mastering using some of the best analog gear available along with a veteran engineer with over 20 years of experience. Mastering is an essential production step to help make a song or songs ready for any of the distribution options you choose, whether it’s itunes, Cd Baby, Tunecore, Bandcamp, CD or vinyl.
In addition to all of this, we also offer these other specific services and options for you.
Custom Music
If you are not an artist but are in need of tracks to complete a campaign or promotion, our team is able to create music of different genres to accompany your idea. Your specific ideas can be worked into original compositions, or into stock tracks that are already available
Songwriting Collaboration
We also have the ability to help you complete a composition, or original thought / idea that you need assistance with. Whether it’s just lyrics and a melody that need supporting chord structure, or if it’s only lyrics and you need help coming up with a melody and chords, we can work in tandem with you to finish your creation.