Post your first demos & oldies

[Plendakor]

LOL..
So yeah, I guess we all collect the stuff we make right ?

So why don't you post the old demos, you know.. those you're ashamed of but still keep as a reminder of where you've been. You know, those very first demos where you thought you were awesome ?

Might as well give a description of how you recorded the clips and etc
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Had the idea of this thread cause I cleaned my old cassette player and to digitalize my old recordings/sound experiments/turds. will post clips when it's done.

 

[Manicompression]

I have some ADATS of a studio recording my jr high band was working on. I am sure they are terrible, but I would love to hear them maybe try to mix them knowing what I know now haha. I just dont know anybody with an ADAT machine around here. This is a great thread waiting to happen.

 

[Terminus]

Great thread idea.

SHITTY old demo recording from 2000, programmed drums with general midi (we lost our drummer through a temper tantrum AT a show) and the rhythm guitars are me on the left and the other guy on the right side. We rarely played the same shit and it's pretty overblown but some of the riffs aren't too terrible (just terribly recorded). Recorded on my Fostex FD-8 which had only 8 tracks, and our bass player sucked so bad and never played anything on time, just fast as he could haha. fuckin floor fx pedals for the guitars That ending is so epicly bad

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/994726/06-AudioTrack 06.mp3

 

[HCL]

Gotta love the DKFH + mic-in DI guitars.

 

[Sloan]

I actually dug through a bunch of shit and put it all together in one collection, totally sounds like shit.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

My first band. Recording was done by some dude for cheap in 2000. The only positive thing that can be said for this is we didn't have auto tune available. It was a good learning experience and it didn't break the bank to bad. Used to do the xian thing pretty heavy.

Soap.mp3

Second band, still doing the xian thing. Recording was a little better but still bad. Singer is the same as above but this was recorded in 2003. I still dig this riff quite a bit. To my knowledge this was also not auto tuned going off of what I remember of the setup (digital performer IIRC).

A Thousand Words.mp3

3rd band, recorded in 2006. Again not by me, but at this point I'm getting to be interested in it. Not doing the church/God thing anymore at this point either.

Pressure.mp3

Same band above, but this was recorded by myself. Everything is natural except the kick on the drums and yesh I did auto tune the piss out of the vocals. This was done in 2008, but probably not completed till 2010, this is why you don't record your own band.

Beautiful Letdown.mp3

First ever recording, did it for my brothers. I had a total of 2 inputs at the time and 1 sm57 so I went with DFH2 for drums... needless to say it's obvious. My brothers sing pretty good though. This was before the recording above so probably 2007 if I remember right. I also didn't own any sort of auto tune software yet so these vocals are also what they were.

I like the smell of matches.mp3

Recording I did of them about a year after Steven Slate Plat 3.5 came out. I only remember this because I paid for this really shortly before we recorded this EP. My brother Jared wasn't singing for them anymore and IIRC they were all in college at this point.

Signal Unusable.mp3

That probably brings me up to 2009, things seemed to get better after these rough outs.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

BTW, I'm definitely not saying any of the above is any good.

 

[Plendakor]

hahah coool. Thanks guys
I haven't converted my cassettes yet but that old jvc player is ready

 

[Ermz]

http://www.myspace.com/annihilism

Slayerrrrrrrrr!!!!...... rrrrrrrr

 

[FIXXXER]

http://www.myspace.com/annihilism

Slayerrrrrrrrr!!!!...... rrrrrrrr

YEAH!

not sure if my sounds anything like that but at least i know that i had been listening slayer 24/7 when i recorded this...should be about 10-12 years ago...

thrashy

 

[Kita]

Some of my favorite stuff I've ever done (more because of the songs than my recording/mixing of them). Recorded and mixed for $20 a song.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25447075/Crafties/05 Woodstove.m4a

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/25447075/Crafties/02 Beaver Dam.m4a

 

[Atheist]

^ Sounds very good!

Here is my first demo... didn't even have the whole songs. At the time I didn't know you could pan guitars!

http://alas.matf.bg.ac.rs/~mr03085/samp1.mp3
http://alas.matf.bg.ac.rs/~mr03085/samp2.mp3

 

[tomijm]

I have uploaded to LastFM my first real band and real demo. Recorded on 4-track tape recorder. And actually I still like that one.

http://www.last.fm/music/Mortal+God/Impurity

-tomi-

EDIT: And this is recorded in 1992.

 

[Kohugaly]

Well it is abouth 5th recording I ever made... I had basically no clue what I was doing... drum samples are form old yamaha, guitar is also from keyboard (recoded mono and panned center), we recorded "nilon guitar" sound and putted on Adobe Audition native guitar suite (puse shit, I tell ya... Burzum is pro comapred to this). for vocals and jaws harp we used headphone mic. Actually we were and still are happy with the quality of that mic. It kind of makes scream vocals sound underground, but still clear. Instead of compression I used digital distortion, because I thought it is the same :-D But the keyboards sound pretty god actually... Well I overdone the stereo widening (because I didnt know what I was doing), but still cool...
I was total absolute numb when I was recording this, keep that in mind, the older one sounds even worse, but I'm too lazy to upload it

 

[DocSauerkraut]

Here it is:

From a 5 song demo, recorded on a weekend in 1995 - on a Fostex 8-Track machine. I am also playing guitar there.
You can't compare it with modern recording techniques but i still like the atmosphere...


edit: For those who recongize the sound of the intro: I did the intro two years ago, while i was playing with wavelab.

 

[AllanD]

http://www.myspace.com/collisiontheory1

First recording I ever did which was nearly 7 years ago, done with a Tascam 4 track tape deck. Not my band.

I had an SM57 on a mic stand a few feet above the drum set, and I had the bottom of the stand touching the kick drum so it would pick up the vibrations, hahaha. The guitar was a knock off guitar into a boss DS1, into a cheap ass amp with an 8 inch speaker which was mic'd with some cheap shure mic. I exported the two tracks separately by plugging the deck into my computer, and then recording it. Since it's separately passed, and tape decks aren't perfect... all of the songs eventually go slightly out of time, ahaha. The guitar wasn't double tracked, I just doubled it and moved one track 2ms ahead and then put them L and R. I charged 5$ a song then, young Allan, so naive.


What's funny is that I've never had a band that could play songs all the way through without fucking up since then. I never realized how solid the drummer was, he was a pure retard, could barely speak correctly and failed all of his classes. Good guy though.

 

[Skaldir]

http://www.myspace.com/collisiontheory1

First recording I ever did which was nearly 7 years ago, done with a Tascam 4 track tape deck. Not my band.

Wow, that distorted guitar sounded odd
If I could find my first recordings I would win this thread though. They are painful

 

[waltz mastering]

Here's a pre production demo that I recorded and mixed around 1997 on 8 track. Gary Cherone on vocals. I wrote and played guitar..
"Left For Dead" http://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/la44n7

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

A lot of you guys waiting till you didn't suck to record it seems.

 

[DanLights]

A lot of you guys waiting till you didn't suck to record it seems.

Exactly my thoughts I sure didn't.