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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby metaldazza on Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:54 pm

I imagine that the drums and vocals are hard to do at home. I presume you can just plug a guitar in to a 'magic box' that connects to a computer and record it pretty much anywhere that's reasonably quiet.

Would it be feasible to record the drums and vocals at a studio but do the guitars and mixing at home?
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby H.O.D. Feemo on Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:18 pm

Yeah you could do that but it'd still have to be mixed and mastered twice, meaning yet more money.
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby jonny_boy34 on Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:44 am

zurabmelua wrote:garage band is meh... illegally downloaded pro tools 7 is the way to go


But you need an M-Box to run ProTools, so how do the illegal versions work?
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby Bangover on Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:48 am

just use logic you arses
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby H.O.D. Feemo on Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:53 pm

jonny_boy34 wrote:
zurabmelua wrote:garage band is meh... illegally downloaded pro tools 7 is the way to go


But you need an M-Box to run ProTools, so how do the illegal versions work?


They don't as far as I know. Not cheap to get either (£1200?)
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby jonny_boy34 on Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:07 am

H.O.D. Feemo wrote:
jonny_boy34 wrote:
zurabmelua wrote:garage band is meh... illegally downloaded pro tools 7 is the way to go


But you need an M-Box to run ProTools, so how do the illegal versions work?


They don't as far as I know. Not cheap to get either (£1200?)


Christ almighty, no they're not that much. The proper big boys HD version is about a billion pounds, but you can get different versions of the Pro Tools LE with the M-Box. I've got the M-Box Mini, which I think cost around £200, maybe a bit more. Then you can get one thats a bit bigger, and then the Factory Pro one, I think it goes up to around £400-£500. You can also get it with the 002 big box thing, which is probably a bit more, but I don't know how much. And then there's that big boy HD rig, which is really for proper good studios.
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby keith_amok on Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:26 am

I think we were around 450 squid for ours
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby H.O.D. Feemo on Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:41 pm

Cool, will be getting one of them. Only one squilliion t-shirts left to sell.
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby metaldazza on Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:48 pm

I have to say, I'm still not sure how this all works but I do understand the level of my ignorance now! Thanks for all the comments.
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby Mazz on Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:35 pm

A billion pounds.

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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby MartinC on Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:31 pm

Roughly? Roughly forty-two thousand pounds...
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Re: So how much does it cost to record a demo/album?

Postby thrashduck on Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:33 pm

Didn't even get in the top 100!

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