From starting out to recording, playing live and choosing a record deal - all the advice you need is here. Main content. Recording a demo or mixtape Get prepared, and then take on the world with your new sound. You must enable JavaScript to play content. Advice for unsigned and undiscovered musicians From starting out to recording, playing live and choosing a record deal - all the advice you need is here. Presenting your music clearly to your intended audience is what's important.
You can drive yourself crazy mic'ing every individual drum, or you can get a good kick sound, put up two overheads and call it a day. Because think about it: are you trying to impress the listeners with your home recording skills, or are you trying to impress them with your songs?
If it's truly a demo, by its very nature, it is a demonstration of potential, not precision. Naturally, depending on the genre you're working in, the process of demoing will be different: bands might tend to track live, whereas more electronically-focused artists will be working "in the box" in a DAW such as Pro Tools.
Bear in mind that in a perfect world, you'd have unlimited time in the studio. So if you won't be able to labor over each minute detail in the studio, you shouldn't work under those conditions while demoing. Make it happen, make it sound the best you can, and move on.
Don't be one of those unknown geniuses who can't finish revising their demo. By reducing their volume to a conversational level, these bands — so accustomed to jarring juxtapositions of chords and rhythms — discovered bum notes that might not have been audible through the fog of distortion. By uncovering the errors masked by noise before you record, you'll save yourselves the headache of discerning exactly who screwed up after the fact.
That phrase was inscribed on one of Brian Eno's famous Oblique Strategies cards. This is also sage advice for anyone making a demo. For bands, recording the demo live not overdubbing can potentially be different each time in subtle ways. Ask yourself: when contrasting different takes, what makes one more unique than the others?
Did someone make a mistake that may have improved the song? A demo might be the first time one hears their music from an outside perspective, i.
When listening back, don't look for what was "wrong" — listen for what was interesting and unavailable to you when you were "in it," actively playing. The flipside to Rule No. Your song is really sounding like a song now, so you can get creative with your extra parts. I love creating hooks with guitar parts, rhythmic keyboard parts, etc. Also experiment with pads and organ to create a sense of space in your recording.
Keep the ones that grab you or truly serve a purpose, and ditch the rest! Vocals are really fun, and really challenging. Keep in mind that you can comp a vocal take together, so not everything has to be completely perfect. Mixing is a whole separate discussion that deserves many, many more words.
However, I believe you can make some major differences in your recording, simply by doing a few simple things. Set your levels. Take all your faders volume sliders on every track, and put them to zero. Then, start with drums, and raise and lower levels until the track is balanced.
Suddenly, it starts sounding very well put together! Now, add some depth to the song. With you pan knobs, create a musical space. Move instruments left or right, and watch your song come alive. When you export your track, it will be too quiet. You can get it mastered, which will make it sound quite a bit better, and it will also be louder. For your purposes, you can put a plugin called a Limiter on your Main Output channel, and this will boost the signal to listenable levels.
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