cassette demo off the board

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This was literally recorded in the drummers garage at practice last weekend.Uploaded to n-track for minor tweaking of EQ and reverb,but otherwise live off the board.We all wore phones to track and DI'd the instruments so the drum track is relatively clean.
The purpose of a demo is a little different than normal recording.Lo fi cassette is cool for bar owners.They will maybe listen for 3 or 4 minutes so either give him a medley (as I have done w/4 songs) or your best song first at the hook.We are "classic rock" so song selection is all over the map.Have a listen to the demo for our new female vocalist.

http://redrival.com/tomh/demo.asf

Tom
 
Emm, this was pretty bad

I'm not one for beating around the bush, so I'll say it straight, this was pretty awful. It was all cover versions and not very faithful reproductions at that. I'm sorry but I didn't think homerecording.com was a board for tired cover versions. How about giving us something original?
 
this aint garageband.com

Hey Royston this forum is a mixing clinic first and formost. "Mixing Skills" is what this forum was intended for not how original ones song might be. Although their are a number of great orginal artist's that hang in here...that's just iceing on the cake.

[Edited by David on 02-23-2001 at 01:53]
 
Thanks for the feedback fellows, and thanks for listening.

Tom
 
I didn't get a chance to listen Tom.
How do I play an .asf file?
What do I need.
 
Nice clean mixes there, Tom. Being in and out of the weekend warrior scene myself - I know zaklee where you are comin' from. This is the kinda stuff that can put some extra gear money in your pockets.
 
my own critique

The session was a comedy of errors from the start.The board was a 20 year old Peavy 12 channel with the LEDs dead on the main bus, so levels were "guestimated" as to headroom.
We used 5 vocal mikes and 3 drum mikes.(a buddy was mixing as I played and he neglected to turn on the phantom power for the drum overhead...sigh)Direct injection of 3 guitars,2 keyboards and direct-boxed bass.Note that adds up to 14 inputs into a 12 channel board,so some channels were "shared" with XLR and 1/4".We had reverb and delay on an aux bus that fried so it ended up dry.
But I wasn't too upset because the ultimate purpose of this demo is to be listened to by the manager in a crowded,noisy bar where such niceties of detail are lost.Hell,much worse stuff has successfully gotten this band gigs before!In fact,raw works better 'cause club owners are suspicious that a slick production won't be reproduced live.
Full versions of the demo are posted on my band page.

http://tomh888.bizland.com/catch22.htm

Thanks for all the friendly interest (even our frank friend, royston!)


Tom
 
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