In The Studio With Chris Baseford: A Record, Start To Finish.
Get Inside Access On How Chart-Topping Rock Records Are Made
The tools, strategies, and philosophy I use when working with Nickelback, Daughtry, Shinedown, and many others.
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What is "In The Studio With Chris Baseford"?
You can watch a thousand tutorials on EQ tricks, compression settings, and vocal tuning, and still find yourself hitting the same wall: your tracks don't stand up next to the records you hear on the radio.
That’s because the "magic" isn't in a template or a plugin preset—it’s in an intentional process that happens long before you open a mix session.
This workshop isn’t a collection of hobbyist tutorials; it's more like a virtual apprenticeship. Unlike instructors who build their careers selling content, my professional life is spent in the trenches delivering multi-platinum records for artists like Nickelback, Daughtry, and Shinedown. I’m not here to teach you theory; I’m here to show you how I work.
A Virtual Internship, Not a Tutorial
This is ~50 hours of deep-dive training that covers the entire lifecycle of a production—from a rough phone demo to a final, polished master.
Past students have described this as "watching over my shoulder." You aren't watching a curated, "perfected" tutorial where every lesson is trimmed to be short and consumable. You are in the room with me during a real-world, full-cycle production. You’ll see me wrestle with the same problems you face: pre-production bottlenecks, tracking errors, and arrangement challenges—and you’ll see exactly how I solve them.
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For you to practice:Â You get stems, my Pro Tools session (tracking and mix), notes on recording signal chain, the same downloadable booklet that the in-person students received, and recall sheets.
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Thinking Intentionally: Learn how to structure a session, build a sonic foundation, commit your production choices, and most importantly, ask yourself, "Why am I doing what I'm doing?"
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Consistency:Â Gain the confidence to handle any session, from pre-production to the final master, with an intentional framework.
Stop guessing your way through your productions and questioning how top producers do it. Step into the control room, watch me make a record, and finally bridge the gap between your talent and your output.
Choose your path below and let’s get to work!
 Danny 'Danymal' Lee (USA)
I would 1000% recommend this course to anyone interested in rock production. I've been in the game since 2003, and I still had huge takeaways, cheats, and hacks that I never knew about.
Cameron Johnson
This is the first thing I’ve watched from a top-tier producer/mixer where everything is out on the table. No secret sauce not being shared, no “11 herbs and spices” being kept in the back pocket and sprinkled on when no one is watching.Â
Just feels genuine AND I literally feel like a fly on the wall. Probably the next best thing to actually shadowing Chris around.Â
Piotr Gnacek (Poland)
This is more than a course about recording and mixing. It's about helping an artist make great music! A huge amount of knowledge and detail.
Sean Michael
Total WOW. This was next level from anything I have ever seen so far anywhere. I’m inspired to bring everything I produce to the next level, starting from the source.Â
Dave Rhodes (NZ)
Chris is an amazing teacher! I love his explanations of WHY he does things, not just what he does. For me this is what sets this apart from other courses. The reasoning behind Chris' choices at every step of the process is gold in this course!
Eric Bergeron (Canada)
Over the last 20 years of my career, I’ve been lucky enough to be a fly on the wall with a few great producers. I experienced the same feeling while watching this workshop. Super clear explanations of how and WHY you do something. Seeing Chris take a rough phone demo to a super great-sounding song was unreal!
Kyle Coffey (USA)
I would highly recommend this to anyone looking to improve their chops as a Hard Rock producer. This course does an amazing job at being aimed directly at that audience and is massively effective!Â
