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Originally Posted by character  So many extra steps... just build up from the demo if it really is "perfect" to start with. |
They're not perfect in any way and I'm not really going to keep any of the performance stuff in the demo versions because my playing is really shitty and sloppy on them, and played with badly intonated and sometimes even slightly out of tune guitars with old strings. I'm going to re-record everything with better gear (like using real amps instead of ampsims) and use real drums and a real drummer instead of midi drums. Since I had a bit of an accident and my backup hard drive crashed and I lost all of the sessions and audio files except the mp3 bounces of the songs I had on my drop box, so it's easier just to start over, as the songs ain't really rocket science (usually just drums, bass and guitars and maybe really simple keys and percussions on some of the songs) and there are no tempo or signature changes, except only in one song.
But yeah, back on topic!
I heard a really good one this Friday... I'm currently an exchange student in a college located in Minnesota, and I'm living in the dorms which is mostly filled the freshmen. I'm 26 and about 6-8 years older than almost everybody else at the whole school and basically I'm a freshman too, but because of my exchange student status I'm really a third year student and thus going to higher level classes, so I have studio access to 2-3 levels higher than the other freshmen. This meaning that they can use pro tools lab and I can access SSL Duality consoles etc.
So, then the other dorm people ask why I'm not using my studio access at all. Main reason is that the school started like 3 weeks ago and I've only used the console only 3 times and it's not the easiest space shuttle to operate and I'm not yet 100% confident with it. But since I can use the other studios too, I said to my roommate (who's an excellent singer even though he is only 18):
"sure, I can record you. Do you have any songs or lyrics ready?"
...long pause...
"no"
And the thing is that I've gotten that question from atleast three or four people already. Maybe they don't realize, that it's easier to record something, if there is something to record?
