I have always enjoyed making live stereo recordings of bands in local clubs. The next day I would try and reproduce the live sound that I heard the night before. Once I was happy with the sound, I would track the show out and make a mp3 version for the band. A typical response would be, "Did you speed it up, it sounds fast?" While in reality, it was their first live performance, they were nerves and the drummer played fast. They had played their 45 minute set in 32! Best pre-production ever, just record your practice and give it a listen the next day! You can only improve, if you are honest about what you hear!
Home songwriter/hobby-musician here. Perhaps ALL I do is demos. I see my musical journey right now as "suck till you don't". I make what I can make, just me, demo city. I hope to get enough great song ideas captured as good demos that I can later on make a great record, either as a solo or perhaps a band, once I have gotten a lot better at songwriting and composition. No rush to get to a pro studio. Build the musical ideas, skills, and the sound without paying an hourly rate. When the songs are there, then I will be paying folks to make me sound good.
The biggest thing I learned about demoing and preproduction was the necessity of editing. When being creative, I tend to go overboard with tracks and unnecessary parts and instruments because it sounds so good sonically. I had to learn to edit for what the song wants and needs. It also forced me to revisit older demos and make those songs much leaner and meaner.
I consider my DAW recordings pre-production, writing, and demos. When it's all done it's time to pick what's good, what to cut back or modify, and where to do a quality album once it's well rehearsed. Still a really big work in progress. Need to get finished.
i everytime make a demo to get the feeling and to know what sound effect to put on or take off! how the mix is working together with the vocals, melody, drums... and so on
I'm in a recording only project, and we write remotely and notate into GP, and we record demos from nearly the beginning of every song. We might lay some some scratch guitar and bass over a MIDI export and see how it works with real instruments. By the time we record for real, we know exactly what we're doing and how it should sound.
Probably never gonna record a band/project without a preproduction again lol. Its just an absurd workflow otherwise with many possible complications, both audio wise and socially, psychologically.
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I have always enjoyed making live stereo recordings of bands in local clubs. The next day I would try and reproduce the live sound that I heard the night before. Once I was happy with the sound, I would track the show out and make a mp3 version for the band. A typical response would be, "Did you speed it up, it sounds fast?" While in reality, it was their first live performance, they were nerves and the drummer played fast. They had played their 45 minute set in 32! Best pre-production ever, just record your practice and give it a listen the next day! You can only improve, if you are honest about what you hear!
Home songwriter/hobby-musician here. Perhaps ALL I do is demos. I see my musical journey right now as "suck till you don't". I make what I can make, just me, demo city. I hope to get enough great song ideas captured as good demos that I can later on make a great record, either as a solo or perhaps a band, once I have gotten a lot better at songwriting and composition. No rush to get to a pro studio. Build the musical ideas, skills, and the sound without paying an hourly rate. When the songs are there, then I will be paying folks to make me sound good.
The biggest thing I learned about demoing and preproduction was the necessity of editing. When being creative, I tend to go overboard with tracks and unnecessary parts and instruments because it sounds so good sonically. I had to learn to edit for what the song wants and needs. It also forced me to revisit older demos and make those songs much leaner and meaner.
I consider my DAW recordings pre-production, writing, and demos. When it's all done it's time to pick what's good, what to cut back or modify, and where to do a quality album once it's well rehearsed. Still a really big work in progress. Need to get finished.
i everytime make a demo to get the feeling and to know what sound effect to put on or take off! how the mix is working together with the vocals, melody, drums... and so on
Thanks Justin
I'm in a recording only project, and we write remotely and notate into GP, and we record demos from nearly the beginning of every song. We might lay some some scratch guitar and bass over a MIDI export and see how it works with real instruments.
By the time we record for real, we know exactly what we're doing and how it should sound.
This is very important for everything kind of MUSIC..
Agreed
Probably never gonna record a band/project without a preproduction again lol. Its just an absurd workflow otherwise with many possible complications, both audio wise and socially, psychologically.
Truth!