Demos

[Dan in Chicago]

Hey everybody. I'm looking for feedback on some pretty rough cut demos that I have been working on before I try to take them to the studio. I need to emphasize the roughness of them, and they definitely need to be tightened. I was hoping I could get a little feedback from some of my fellow FoTs before I put down any money and head to a studio.

http://www.myspace.com/youngvalcanoes

If you don't care for them, than be brutal and let me know why, unless you just straight up hate them, cause that doesn't help much. But if you have the time I am looking for all the feedback possible. I should be continually updating the page as I work on them more.

Thanks,
Dan

[thom]

i listened to night by night. i like the decades vibe, but the vocals can't be that wet. just compress a bit and leave them dry. everything else is so reverberated, you need the vocals to hold the tune together.

if the vocal performance isn't good enough to be heard without heavy reverberation, don't bother trying to mask it. learn to sing in key with some energy.

now we never open is on... i dig it! i'd buy your record if you hit the notes.

[KickTheBobo]

I think with some knob twisting from a real-deal studio wiz will turn these tracks from good to GREAT. the recordings are really tinny, but that's to be expected with demo stuff. Leave the EQing and compression and all that science of recording stuff to the folks on the other side of the glass. Focus now on the songwriting and getting as tight as possible.

definitely shop around before handing your hard-earned cash over to the first dude with a Pro-Tools setup in his garage. Listen to stuff they've recorded before and see if you like their handiwork. sometimes, you can luck out and find someone who is apprenticing and needs bands to practice on, but that should always be for free/ beer money. If you are paying $100/ hr, they better be a damn professional.