Hello folks. While I appreciate the art form of recording, mixing, and mastering using the best equipment available, I have been thinking of sprucing up a few home demos as an "introduction" to the world via bandcamp. As in: "here is me, here are some demos recorded at home, more to come..." The aim being to record some other tracks down the line properly. I've been through that process and see the advantages of someone who's good with a mic.
All my demo acoustic and vocals were recorded on a Shure SM58 Beta, the rest, plugins.
I trialled Landr and noticed a difference with some of my home recordings, so am thinking of using it to master a few tracks to stream online. I would clearly title them as home demos.
Landr? Too good to be true?
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Band Stuff: https://navigationofficial.bandcamp.com/album/silhouette-ep
With home demos, it's kind of hard to justify expense as being either of those since mastering simply won't be the quality bottleneck most of the time. So give landr a go!
Bandcamp
Spotify, Apple et al
With my home stuff, just as an intro, but at some bit better quality than just Reaper...
I posted the link to the recordings here: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/153977/releasing-something-made-ten-years-ago if you wanted to take a listen.
All mixed (and re-recorded) at home apart from the drum symbols and vocals (vocals recorded in a cupboard ten years ago!)
soundcloud.com/thecolourbox-1
youtube.com/@TheColourboxMusic
If you want to pay someone else to make it work once, fair play-learning experience,
but with pro q 3, you can solve a lot of problems at mixing stage, proMB takes care of mix comp, and pro L is all you need for mastering stage, if loudness is what you want.
I also recommend loudness penalty website for the realisation that one size doesnt fit all, big differences across platforms,
YMMV
cheers
andy k