BronzeWailer
1470 posts
Sep 29, 2014
3:03 AM
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I bit the bullet and went into a "studio" (a living room with equipment) to do some recording. The idea is to have something to hand to bar managers to get gigs and flog on the street to help defray the costs of music addiction.
We are also playing at a music festival this coming weekend and they have a merch tent. We can store them there and some people might even buy some.
Due to time/cash constraints, I will burn the CDs on my home PC. A couple of guys I talked to said i-tunes will suffice. (The tunes are being mastered by the guy who recorded us so I don't plan to tinker with them at all).
I have burned a demo onto a CD. It sounds no worse than we do live on my car stereo. I was told to use the slowest burn speed to increase the bit rate, or something like that.
Does anyone have hints/tricks/traps or pitfalls to point out?
Thanks in advance.
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jbone
1777 posts
Sep 29, 2014
3:59 AM
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We sell 2 versions of our stuff, the mixed/mastered/all original Lifestyles cd for $10 and usually have some home recorded or live recorded out someplace like at a benefit or whatever, demo cds for $5, no art work or even mixdown.
You are talking about the bare minimum here. Our goal with a full process cd is mostly to sell it. The living room demos I doubt get played much by club owners but can be sold as well.
I hand off a biz card with our links on it to club owners instead of sending another cd to limbo. In fact some joints will take your cd, after they've turned you down for a gig, and play your music in their joint. Some might say any press is good press but when it comes to our copyrighted stuff and not getting a gig, that's something I will prevent where I can. AFTER we play a gig at a place I do make a point to give our best to the owner/manager.
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BronzeWailer
1471 posts
Sep 29, 2014
4:29 AM
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Thanks jbone. $10 sounds about right for the full deal CD, considering production costs.
We have business cards as well, with basically just contact details on them.
We also plan to have our frequent collaborator, a young lady singer much more glamorous than us, hand the CDs to the managers in person.
I got a pack of 50 jewel cases for $10, printed up some inserts which I have been cutting and folding, then will slap some labels on the actual CDs themselves with song titles on them.
What software do you burn yours with, if you don't mind my asking?
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KingoBad
1542 posts
Sep 29, 2014
10:35 AM
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Bronzewailer,
Make sure and test your CDs in your car. Making sure you are handing out working CDs is very important. It also helps you test your mix in a more real world application.
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rogonzab
603 posts
Sep 29, 2014
1:01 PM
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I am doing that same thing right now whit my band. We busk on fridays and sell a live recording of a gig.
This is how I do it:
- Buy white cds (whit no brand on it)
- Print a little band logo in a sticker paper, and put that in the cd. It look good and is very cheap.
- Print in colors, Couche paper 175grs for the cover, front and back.
- Put contact info in the back
- I use cdburnerxp, and the point of using a slower speed to burn is because that reduce the chance of burning failure, is has nothing to do whit recording quality.
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BronzeWailer
1472 posts
Sep 29, 2014
2:09 PM
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Thanks KingoBad and rogonzab. This is very helpful. Cheers!
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Rubes
899 posts
Sep 29, 2014
2:36 PM
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ALWAYS have a copy or two on you so as not to miss any opportunity ($)
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jbone
1778 posts
Sep 29, 2014
4:00 PM
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We used Nero. The latest cd though, we did the whole package and then sent it to a jobber who is real reasonable and accurate. BUT the sound should be mastered to RIAA standards. Take a look at kunaki.com. When you have a mastered product they do a really fine job on both sound and graphic files and send exact dupes of what you give them, and depending on how many units you get at a time cost per unit is very reasonable- under $3 each for our 10 song cd. We plan to use them next time.
It's so much less hassle to just get the files together, use their link to upload everything, and then order and paypal the next 25 or so at a time.
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BronzeWailer
1474 posts
Sep 29, 2014
4:13 PM
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Thanks Rubes and jbone.
Very much cottage industry stuff this first time.
I have wav files that are 50 to 90 megs for each song and burning to CD from i-tunes sounds pretty good.
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