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I want to help you get your songs out of your head and into a world of listeners. I can help you write, arrange, produce and record. Maybe you've done some tracking already but want some help mixing, Cave Records can help. Need someone to arrange BGV's for you, we can help. Or maybe you just want to add some ear candy to your tune. We can help.

Cave Records is a fully functional project studio. We have done work for P&G, Walmart, C&K Home designs, Crossroads church, UC Health, and helped get several author's books onto audible. That is just the voice over work we do. I am a published songwriter with Word, Integrity and Vineyard Worship with a background in leading worship for over two decades. I love helping artists write, and record. I produce artist that have songs, but are not sure of their sound or genre. I have been lucky to have access to amazing musicians that lend their talents to tunes. Chris Rodriquez, Shawn Tubbs, Martin Mille, Jeff Rezer, Taylor Mesple, Luke Cyrus Goetze, Sarah Kelly and Justin Jonhonson to name a few. I would love to meet you and your music where you are and help you get to the next step.

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Interview with Charlie Hines Productions

Q: Tell us about a project you worked on you are especially proud of and why. What was your role?
A: I wrote recorded mixed and mastered an original song called “Lost You To Heaven” for a mom who's son overdosed and she does a food and shelter ministry in his honor called Tylers Table.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
A: My 6th album after just finishing one for a client.
Q: Analog or digital and why?
A: Digital recording analog gear. Why? Because music should be both/and and not either/or
Q: What's your 'promise' to your clients?
A: Honesty and my best efforts.
Q: What do you like most about your job?
A: Writing lyrics and melody and programming with virtual instruments.
Q: What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?
A: What would you change in my song? Typically I ask what are you trying to say and when they give me a long winded answer about it, I say them lets find a way to creatively say exactly that.
Q: What's the biggest misconception about what you do?
A: A great studio engineer captures a high quality recording of your talent. It does not fix you. But the process will make you a much better musician because it does not lie.
Q: What questions do you ask prospective clients?
A: What do they want their music to do.
Q: What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A: Stuck on a song, want to co-wrote, need me to mix the tracks you have, need backing vocals, guitars programming, I can help.
Q: If you were on a desert island and could take just 5 pieces of gear, what would they be?
A: My Fender start with Fralin pickups, my pedal board, my VVT amp, my acoustic guitar and an endless supply of notebooks and pens.
Q: What was your career path? How long have you been doing this?
A: Live musician for 40 years, worship pastor for 20 years, studio owner operator for 15 years.
Q: How would you describe your style?
A: I love rock, but wish we had more of it in modern worship music. So my style is a mix of everything I grew up on.
Q: Which artist would you like to work with and why?
A: Pat Metheny, I would love to watch him write and then arrange a song for a live band. He has such diverse musicians and he allows them to bring their craft to the table.
Q: Can you share one music production tip?
A: Capture the best delivery of an honest vulnerable vocal and don't edit the life out of it.
Q: What type of music do you usually work on?
A: Worship, CCM, ballads, most recently a folk gospel blues record.
Q: What's your strongest skill?
A: Over 20 years playing with live bands, I have learned to arrange and write to create amazing presentations of songs.
Q: What do you bring to a song?
A: Production and arrangement. Melody Lines and backing vocal arrangements. I also mix song from other songwriters to prepare them for their release.
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: Audio Books, Voice Overs, Indie film music, singer songwriter, songwriting, production studio, set up well for client's that play multiple instruments. I produce songs for client's and have great connections to high caliber musicians.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: 1440 sq feet of studio includes a lounge, guitar amp room, drum tracking room, and vocal booth. Main mixing area with a healthy amount of instruments, virtual software and plugins and quality mic pres and compressors.
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: I love the writing, recording and mixing aspect of getting a song out of someone’s head and out into the world.
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Owner and operator of Cave Records Cincinnati Ohio. Mixing, CoWriting, guitarist, audio book engineer, voice over artist and singer.