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Excellent points. I agree. In addition as an independent if you approach your project creatively, and do something cool and unusual and innovative, it's more likely to grab attention, gain recognition, and therefore more chance of getting the atttention of labels, if that is a goal too.

I understand the main difference between the two machines (vf16 and vf160) is the built in CDR drive. if the vf16 you've been offered is dirt cheep and money is an issue then you might be better off buying it and hooking it up to an external CD writer, if the economy is worth it. Also if you...

You seem as much concerned about what other bands are doing and trying to get one over on them than on your music! This is music, it's art, it isn't competitive sports, get your music right and it doesn't matter what some other band are doing or not doing! Bands form and split, come and go...

That last sentence sums it up. If all you wanted was a demo to give to club owners then the advice you were given to polish your best 4 songs only was correct. In your example an EP is the way to go. Know what it is you want to achieve and choose the best format to fit. If you have 12 top...

I'm a Vf160 user too, I also don't know of a way to change it. But from my experience it's unlikely you'll get any problems with the way the VF burns CD masters, the problems are more likely to come when tracks are transferred to PC and burned to CD from there. You could try posting the...

Cost! Unless you've money to burn it's too expensive to put out two products containing the same songs. I'm talking here of unsigned bands playing a few shows putting out independent product on low budgets, sales revenues will be low, the product will be a promotional tool, for most of them it...

It's a case of which is the best product for what you want to achieve? EPs are not better or worse than an EP, each has its function. If you just want to put out a sample of your work, to sell at shows or give to record labels and journos etc, and have one or two killer songs, then an EP is...

You used the term 'duplication', I assume you really meant that and not 'replication' ? duplication is burning CDRs from your master copy, like burning a CDR at home you can have the odd problem and instances where it doesn't burn right. Replication - this is where they make a glass master and...

"Now that my children are not babies, I have a few hours a week to spend on music and recording. Those hours are at night when my kids and wife are asleep, " Like the previous poster said, try to negotiate 'Dad's recording night' when wife looks after the kids alone for one evening. It would be...

I have used the foam type in the home recording environment. Only for when I record myself playing loud distorted guitar. I first get the sound i like without the plugs adjusting the tone and levles, then put the plugs in for the repeated takes. I also make sure the headphone volume is way down...

Well said, that just about sums it up. I'm not sure how much folk can be taught that, or whether it's just down to talent in the end. I mean you can teach someone to paint, technicaly, but never turn them into a renowned artist, and i think the same goes for songwriting there has to be some...

Johnzo, If you are going to 'toss a song out' then you have nothing to lose by radically re-working it and trying something very different with the tune. Maybe addingv a new section, changing the instrumentation or structure, whatever. The only thing you can lose is time, which is very important...

There's a problem with this approach. Not all drummers can play along to a recorded band, it's like asking them to play to a click track, some just can't do it. Of course if you know the drummer is competent enough to handle this then fine. But that's one reason why people like to try to get...

Good point. First thing is don't expect everyone to like your stuff. there are so many genres and sub genres that you'll never get everyone to agree on what's 'good'. That's a problem if for example most of your friends are into country, but you like to write Rap songs or whatever! It's...

Hmmm, whilst i can do that, i can hardly put something along the lines of "If you find whilst listening to my CD that its not as loud as the others in your collectuion please turn up the damn volume", it just won't work I'm afraid. No the trick is to try to get my own music to sound the same...

Well when you think how big a name he has and then look at his output, I think maybe he had a point (and i say that as a big Lennon/Beatles fan). I don't think he produced anything of much interest after his Imagine album, personaly and icremebr thinking at the time his comeback album in 1980...

Use two mics on two channels. On one channel put it through a guitar fx pedal on a distorted setting, experiment to see which is best. The other mic channel is clean. record the vocal take with both mics channels simultaneously. Come mixdown you just mix the two tracks back to one to taste...

1. drum track (using rhythm unit) 2. guide guitar (later to be wiped) 3. guide vocal (later to be wiped) 4. keeper guitars... from then on depends on the song. Always end with the big banana, the lead vocal final take.

I experimented yesterday with Soundforge's Normalize vunction. i tried the normalize to peak option and normalise to the average option. Obviously the 'average rms' was the loudest result, but it did cause clipping. i assume I should have used a 'limiter' to set the maximum to 0db then do the...

You may wish to visit this dedicated vf160 forum and browse through the threads for interesting information on using the machine... http://pub15.ezboard.com/fvf16frm1 Oh, yeh, there are two bits of advice in life, use sunscreen, and with regard to the vf160 or any other disk based recroding...