I am working on a project that I hope to have finished by the end of summer. I plan to have a CD with about 10 to fifteen of my best songs on it.
I am pretty sure that when it is done I will have a product that is good - good original music recorded in a very listenable format. I also plan to be playing some gigs by the end of the summer. Now here is my question -
Should I make this CD a demo only and use it only for demo purposes, or should I go to a little more trouble and expense and get it mastered, get art for it and make a good number of duplicates so that I could sell these demo/albums at my gigs? The cover art I can get for free from an excellent artist I know. The printing of the labels and covers would be the only cost there.
Tips from any of you seasoned music-biz people would be greatly appreciated.
Tucci
I am pretty sure that when it is done I will have a product that is good - good original music recorded in a very listenable format. I also plan to be playing some gigs by the end of the summer. Now here is my question -
Should I make this CD a demo only and use it only for demo purposes, or should I go to a little more trouble and expense and get it mastered, get art for it and make a good number of duplicates so that I could sell these demo/albums at my gigs? The cover art I can get for free from an excellent artist I know. The printing of the labels and covers would be the only cost there.
Tips from any of you seasoned music-biz people would be greatly appreciated.
Tucci