so, what equipment do need or would be cheap and still good to make a fair demo? what kind of recorder, drum machine would be good?..I don't know anything about these things (suomalaiset etenkin vastatkaa)
What do you need to make a fair demo?
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Kalmah
Svieri
Repi said:
A tape recorder and couple boxes of tar lions (finnish candy).
Seriously, practise very hard, save 300-400 euros and then hire a studio for a weekend.well actually i'm interested doing a just plain homemade demo, i'm not looking for anything serious studio stuff
Repi said:
In theory, a powerful computer and a good sound card (or two) is enough. And some good audio software. In practice, you need some more equipment, like a decent guitar, maybe a synthetizer (or at least a MIDI keyboard) and even a guitar effect/distortion pedal, like some nice digital products from Line6 or similar factories.
On the other hand, there are some interesting and feasable VST plugins that can be used for making the guitars distorted.
In the end, however, the most important thing in recording is having great songs. People are not going to listen your music if the sounds are not good enough, even if the production and the overall sound would be damn good. This applies not only to albums but to demos, too.
But... Making music should be fun, so take no pressure
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neal
wizard in black
speaking of making music mr etos guy...are you still playing/writing? also, that acuostic version of river flows frozen is fuckin amazing. you should've had that as an american bonus track. screw japan heh.
-neal
-neal
neal said:
Every member of the latest EToS line-up are making music with old or new bands & projects, and I am no exception in any way. But, you know, it is going to take some time 'coz my project has just started to write songs. I hope to have something out in two-three years...
goashem said:In theory, a powerful computer and a good sound card (or two) is enough. And some good audio software. In practice, you need some more equipment, like a decent guitar, maybe a synthetizer (or at least a MIDI keyboard) and even a guitar effect/distortion pedal, like some nice digital products from Line6 or similar factories.
On the other hand, there are some interesting and feasable VST plugins that can be used for making the guitars distorted.
In the end, however, the most important thing in recording is having great songs. People are not going to listen your music if the sounds are not good enough, even if the production and the overall sound would be damn good. This applies not only to albums but to demos, too.
But... Making music should be fun, so take no pressure
yep, this is the second best suggestion after tape recorder and tar lions
hmm..I have MIDI-keyboard, guitar(but this one can be thrown to junkyard), distortion pedal( DOD death metal pedal). I agree about the sounds, that's why I asked this..and making music should be fun of course that's why I wanna do a demo for me and maybe to someone who is interested(probably my parentsity buying) so..can you recommend any products which can be used to recording?Repi said:
Cubase, Nuendo, ProTools, Logic and so on... I think ProTools has a freeware edition on their website. www.protools.com - they had it there some months ago, anyway.
Some Cakewalk products are nice if you are consentrating on MIDI things. They have some trial versions on their website at www.cakewalk.com.
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