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Dudes.

So, we're hoping to cut a demo. Not like the definitive band document, but something that sounds good and conveys to potential venues what we sound like. We debated:

(a) short, 3-4 song studio EP
(b) live "album" with a full set
(c) buy the shit ourselves and learn how to record (show's in two weeks!)
(d) some other option

....seriously. What's a person to do here? Is it worth buying a cheap digital 8 track mixer and trying to do the shit ourselves on a laptop? What's involved in making a live recording? Does the quality of the PA count, or is everything routed through the mixer anyway? How much should we be willing to spend? Is making a live CD really worth a thousand dollars? Know anyone in the Chicago area that'll do live recordings/mastering on the cheap?!?

HELP.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm beginning to think that a potential outlay of $850 (before media costs) is a little much for a first recording/gigging demo. Anyone?

I should have posted this weeks ago.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Is that how much it would cost you at Blam or Ice Factory?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Do any of the local Unis/Colleges have recording programs? At my school there were no shortage of Recording Engineering/Sound Engineering students looking for people and groups to record for class projects.

― super yooper (waah christ dere eh pard?) (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Bam! = 650 for the live recording, 200 for the mixing
Ice Factory = no idea if they do live recording -- never asked.

thing is, we've got the gig booked at Ronny's, so we can't switch over to the Ice Factory willy nilly I don't think. We're just a hair under 20 days out and need to get promotin'!

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mean do the show at Ice Factory -- I mean do a recording there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

any idea how much it is? i'm LAZY

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

No idea. Why don't you ask Los Fake Ficciones?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Or write ... info AT fprecords DOT com.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good idear.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

If I were you, I'd record live and then pare it down to the three best tracks. No venue is going to listen to your whole live set.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, totally. The whole set would be as much for our own, archival/website purposes as it would be for a demo. Especially if we fucked something up.

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

Rent a second sound board,a split snake, and something to record to (all you need are two tracks, really), hire a qualified second sound guy, and go. Shouldn't cost more than $250, all told.

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

...a posting on Craigslist has yielded LOADS of interested hobbyists. One guy said he'd do it for $75!!! And the recordings he has on his website aren't awful, at least for our purposes (gigging demo).

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

An ideal situation would be to find someone with a small set-up who will come to your space and record you live. There must be someone around who will do it for free, providing you allow them to take as much time as they like to try different mic setups etc.
ie: you want a recording, they want to practice recording, deal.
the tapeop message board might be somewhere to look?
Of course, this could all fail miserably.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Or just rent a pair of decent room mic's and a mixer and mess around with mic placement in your practice space until it sounds passable, recording direct to computer.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

the tapeop message board might be somewhere to look?

link plz?

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://messageboard.tapeop.com/
If you ask nicely on the hookups forum, someone might come through, but I really have no idea.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, duder.

― gbx (skowly), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

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