The Recipe For Platinum Records, Number One Hits, And A Seven-Figure Income - With Seth Mosley

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast, Episode 104

SPEAKER_2 (0:07)

You're listening to the Six Figure Home Studio Podcast. The number one resource for running a profitable home recording studio.

Brian Hood (0:19)

Welcome back to another episode of the 6 Figure Home Studio Podcast. I am your host, Brian Hood, and I am here with my bald, beautiful, amazing purple shirted glasses, four eyed swagger man, Chris, Jay, Graham. How you do today, Chris?

Chris D. Graham (0:34)

I'm fabulous, Brian Hood.

Brian Hood (0:36)

What's your middle initial?

Chris D. Graham (0:37)

I forget. Is it Jay too?

Brian Hood (0:38)

No, it's D, David.

Chris D. Graham (0:40)

Oh, D. That's right.

Brian Hood (0:41)

A good biblical name, David.

Chris D. Graham (0:43)

It's a good strong name.

Brian Hood (0:44)

That's right.

Chris D. Graham (0:45)

That was a weird accent for that.

Brian Hood (0:48)

Chris, of all the people that I know, I don't think you have the capability of doing any other accent than your Ohio accent.

Chris D. Graham (0:55)

There's no such thing as an Ohio accent.

Brian Hood (0:57)

Yeah, there is.

Chris D. Graham (0:58)

Back me up, our guest today, Seth Mosley.

Seth Mosley (1:01)

There is no such thing as an Ohio accent.

Brian Hood (1:04)

Yes, there is. And before we get to our guest here, I want to hype him up a little bit for y'all. If you don't know who Seth Mosley is, Seth is the owner of Full Circle Music.

And I actually, I think Seth, I met you through the real estate meet up, Music and Money, which is a real estate group you do. You're a real estate investor on the side. We probably won't get to that. But Seth, first of all, Seth's gotten Songwriter Of The Year, Producer Of The Year, Grammy Award winning, multiple Dove Awards. I think your team has had multiple Grammys as well.

You have Golden Platinum Records to your name, more than 20 number one radio singles. And the most important accolade of Seth Mosley is, this may not be true. I don't know. You have to confirm. You are on the cover of USA Today. Is that correct?

Seth Mosley (1:48)

You did your deep homework. Yes.

Brian Hood (1:50)

Yes. Yes.

Seth Mosley (1:51)

It goes way back to when I was like one year old in the pumpkin show in Circleville, Ohio, dressed up like a pumpkin.

Chris D. Graham (2:00)

Dude, I've been to the Circleville, Ohio pumpkin show. That's an esoteric connection for our audience right there.

Brian Hood (2:06)

Yeah. So Seth is from Circleville, Ohio. That's kind of where you got your start, a town of 13,000 people.

I think a good place for us to start here is your first paid project. I like to kind of start that with our guests, especially for going through their story. Was your first paid project in Circleville, Ohio? And if it wasn't, just correct me and we can go from there in your story.

Seth Mosley (2:26)

That's a great question. I don't think I've ever been asked that actually. It was. It was in my parents' basement.

It was the EP that got me hired at another studio in Dublin, Ohio in Columbus.

Chris D. Graham (2:42)

That's not Circa Music, was it?

Seth Mosley (2:44)

No, that was it. It was called Pendlewood Studios.

Chris D. Graham (2:48)

With JR. Yeah, I know JR. CR.

Seth Mosley (2:51)

Pendleton.

Chris D. Graham (2:51)

CR. Pendleton. That's right. I'm thinking, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. I haven't talked to him in years, obviously.

Seth Mosley (2:57)

But yeah, so he was the guy that hired me. But it was this EP for some guys I went to high school with. My parents were gracious enough to let me set up a studio in their basement, which meant a lot of noise making.

I gave guitar lessons to make money to buy recording gear, and a lot of it was just for the purpose of I wanted to record myself. I had all these songs I was writing. I thought I was going to be the next John Mayer playing in coffee shops and all these things. But I was also leading worship in my church, and so music was very much a big part. But I recorded this friend's band that they were called Killing Santa Clara.

And it was like a Huba stank meets the used, like kind of an emo sort of post punk thing. And that was really the first full band recording where I was like I was on a DAW. I think they paid me $100 a song. So I think I did five or six songs. So the whole thing I made like five or six hundred bucks, but I learned so much doing it. And it was the EP that got me hired by CR at that first studio.