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I’m going into a recording studio…

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Started by Sabotage in Chit-Chat

…and I don’t know what to expect.

My band are just some pub band who do covers (Thin Lizzy, UKJ, AC/DC etc) and we reckon we need a decent demo disc.
I’ve found a studio near us, and he reckons we could lay down 3 or 4 songs in 4 hours. Sounds good to me.
But he says it will take an hour to get the sound right to start with, and I’m thinking “wouldn’t he do that afterwards?”. I don’t know.
Anyone got any tips?
Is it just a case of we turn up, plug in, do our songs a few times and that’s pretty much it?
I don’t want some Bob Rock type guy who spends ages on everything, just a good representation of what we do live. No fancy overdubs and what not.

cheers

Posted on Tue, 10 December 2002 at 11:12

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Nitro wrote:

if you wanna record it live, you must be sure you have the appropriate sounds coming from the amps, mikes, etc.. It will be so hard to change the sounds after recording.

Posted on Tue, 17 December 2002 at 11:32

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deekoi wrote:

the levels can be changed after the recording, and you could add effects onto any track you’ve already recorded and do varius bits and bobs, but it is much easier to start with a sound that you are happy with, and just record that, becuase then you’re not trying to correct things after the event

Posted on Tue, 17 December 2002 at 12:31

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Sabotage wrote:

Cheers guys.
Would you say it’s much easier than playing live, or is it harder because of the “pressure” to get it right and not waste loads of studio time?

Posted on Tue, 17 December 2002 at 15:34

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Nitro wrote:

Recording one by one is easier than recording live. When you’re recording alone, you’re responsible only of yourself. But, when it’s live, you must be responsible of everyone.

Posted on Wed, 18 December 2002 at 08:19

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Sabotage wrote:

We went to check the studio out the other night (it’s in Redditch if anyone’s from round there) and it looks OK to me.
Should be going in there in the next week or so to “lay some tracks down”.
Still can’t fathom out what’s going to happen, but I guess people will push me in the right places, when and where etc.

Posted on Wed, 8 January 2003 at 15:13

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Sabotage wrote:

OK. Tracks laid down now.
Great experience in there. Strange smells wafting around too. Hmmm…
All mixed and it sound very good too! Ahem.

Question…
Now I’ve got this CD with our demo recorded, and we’re a covers band I remind people here, is there any copyright legal guff I need to put on the CD?
Such as …We didn’t write these songs etc. Thin Lizzy did…or whatever.

It’s a CD I’m only going to give to pubs, clubs, promoters etc.
I won’t be flogging it down Redditch market. :)

Posted on Tue, 4 February 2003 at 11:35

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White Psycho wrote:

no idea, a few of my mates have been making a CD, and they got really sick of just getting one drum line done properly! But they haven’t mentioned anything about copyright (they do their own stuff and a few covers)I’ll ask them and get back to you. Someone else I know has made a CD and I’m hoping to get it on sunday (its a 1st 50 people get a free CD deal)

Posted on Tue, 4 February 2003 at 21:35

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Sabotage wrote:

What I’ve put so far is something like…

We didn’t write these songs. The original artists did. This CD is free. We are making no money out of this. It’s for promo use only.

Something like that. Then we list the tracks and the original artists.
I think we’d have to be the unluckiest people on Earth to get done, but I thought it might be wise to check these things out.

Posted on Wed, 5 February 2003 at 10:47

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White Psycho wrote:

seeing as you won’t be making any money from it and you’re not supplying the original songs I wouldn’t have thought you’d get done, but I don’t know too much about these things

Posted on Thu, 6 February 2003 at 19:13

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Sabotage wrote:

Cheers

That’s what I think too.
Now…if we were doing Metallica stuff… :)

Posted on Fri, 7 February 2003 at 08:52

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White Psycho wrote:

…you’d have been caught years ago for having the intent of covering one of their songs without asking in the future

Posted on Fri, 7 February 2003 at 22:48

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