Green Light Studios

01/02/2025

After a challenging period, we're back on track! Join us as we share our journey of rekindling passion, breaking through plateaus, and maintaining a positive mindset, despite life's ups and downs. Exciting new developments are on the horizon!

12/31/2024

Discover why having too much is better than too little in music production. We emphasize the importance of serving both artists and clients through balanced sound and effective volume settings for a brilliant audio experience.

11/21/2024

I've been having my head down getting caught up with work and family stuff, but last week I was asked to do an interview on Jimmy's JamBox... we had a great conversation, and the interview came out today on YouTube! I worked on my brevity, so it's only a bit over an hour... 😅🤣

09/17/2024

I've debated posting this for almost two months... I'm not one that likes asking for help, but I am also one that will swallow pride when it's necessary.

In April, I took my dad to urgent care because his vision was having problems. The whirlwind of the next became more than we could have expected. Over the next week (and what happened that brought him in) turned out to be two strokes, an open heart surgery, and vision loss to where he is unable to drive for an uncertain length of time.

The beginning was scary, as at that time he could barely see anything and cognitively was in and out of making sense. Fortunately, his cognition is getting stronger, and vision is gradually improving. We've been told that it takes 9-12 months, and we're now over 4 months in... Which is why I am posting this.

From learning how to set his apartment up for vision impairment (scratchy velcro on the microwave and other appliances for tactile guidance) to flash cards helping him read again, we've been working hard to get him as close to his normal as we can. For those that have known him, you'll be happy to know that despite all of the other struggles, his personality is still there and strong as ever! His hospital staff worked hard taking care of him based on how kind he was to them, including his style of humor that kept them smiling and rooting him on.

I've struggled whether to just fight behind the scenes or follow through creating this. I know that this is the best thing for him so that I can continue focusing on helping his recovery as hands on as I've been able to.

Thank you for your time reading, and any help is appreciated.

My Why: Hi, my name is Josh Holland. I’m reaching out to … Joshua Holland needs your support for Help us through my dad's recovery: Every contribution counts

05/22/2024

Video for the new single "Empty" from All But Denied featuring Pooya Entezari is official on YouTube! We posted it to the FB feed, but for those that don't want to have to go searching to find it, it's now easier!

04/17/2024

For those that might be going through a hard time right now, remember this.

Life isn't supposed to be easy. The hardships are where we build character and grow. Some are harder than others, but some of the best people have come out of the worst situations. In Japanese culture, Kintsugi is an art where they fix pottery with gold and find broken things often have more character. People are like this too.

We choose whether we get back up. We choose what defines us. If success and failure are opposite sides of a pendulum, we can't always create success. But we can choose to fail faster and learn more. It's not easy, but it's not supposed to be. The more you fall down, the more you learn how to stay up.

In the difficulty, life has beautiful moments every day that we don't see unless we are looking. Especially if you are looking for it through a phone. Let your struggles drive you instead of define you. Focusing on what you can't change doesn't help you. Focus on what you can and be patient. Change takes time.

Or sometimes you've had enough and change is this moment. If that is the case, what can you do to move the needle towards making your life better? Even if you have to start small, only you can start.

04/17/2024

A friend online recently posted a comment about the fact that some people just want to see you fail. My response helped them, so I thought I'd share in case it can help someone else feeling the same.

Sometimes they don't want you to fail... they just don't want you to do better than them. It reminds them of the things they could be doing with their life. If you succeed, you'll leave them behind. So it's safer keeping you in the box they know instead of you outgrowing them.

04/16/2024

Okay, I had to share this. I posted earlier today about AI and music, and the biggest pushback I see is usually that it can't bring emotion like a human. So I did a test with a sense of humor.

I used Suno AI, entered the prompt:

"A song with deep emotion about how Joshua Holland is the music producer you want to go to if you want your passion heard in the r&b genre. I want the vocal to sound as human and emotional as possible."

Not gonna lie. Hilariously, I like it more than I want to admit... 🤣🤣

r&b soulful intimate song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

04/14/2024

Well, it's official! New single coming out May 3rd! I can't even describe how excited I am for this to come out. Last year I created All But Denied for my solo project, but it will also be used for the collaborations I have with friends and artists that don't have their own projects to help bring more high quality songs into the world.

One of my good friends for over 25 years now, Pooya Entezari and I jammed for the first time in forever last year and an idea was born. Both being busy producing music, this took longer than planned with all the plates spinning... but listening back to this song reminds me why I started playing in the first place. Things he did inspired me and vice versa, and I'm exceptionally proud of this. Here is the presave link for when it comes out on streaming platforms, but knowing us, we'll likely be releasing teasers prior. Maybe even the music video...

Here's to over 25 years of friendship and producing music. I hope you enjoy it as I have.

Stream and Pre-save Empty (feat. Pooya Entezari) - Distributed by DistroKid

03/01/2024

If there is one thing we have learned.
It's the beauty of restore points and completely saying "No Thank You" to an "update" that makes things twice as hard to work with. 😂

What are your feelings on system updates?
Has there been a situation where it actually got worse and you had to rely on either Macs (Time Machine) or Windows (System Restore Point)?

02/20/2024

Have you heard about Sora Ai?
If not, you are going to want to check this out.

Sora Ai is going to be very shortly making some waves in the ai world as well as in the creative space when it comes to animations and potentially in the advertisement world.

Just think about it, when you see something like Western films and scenes straight from an action film automated of this quality from AI, it gets sort of scary.

Makes you sort of wonder how far down the rabbit hole we are going to go down shortly when it comes to stuff like this. ESPECIALLY, when it comes music videos!

Is Sora going to be next greatest tool for content creators?
Let me know in the comments if you are excited or terrified of this new ai tool!

02/18/2024

Improvising is key in this business! 🔑

Especially when green screen footage is needed and you have to make do with the room you have in the studio.
I'm looking forward to seeing what clips get used.
Especially the part where decided to play the guitar behind his head. 🤣😂

Was there any time as an artist and/or band where you had to make due with what you had, and you had to experiment to make it work?

Let me know in the comments your favorite story of you thinking outside the box! 📦 ⬇️