This is going to be my sounding off point on all things Indy_Fire.
I'm a guitarist, who realy likes to make tracks and post them as quick as poss....this has lead to some shocking mixes. But that stops here and now, for I have a new goal.
I hope to share with you my journey into making an album at home on the cheap with low grade gear and no real mixing mastering skills.
In fact at this point I don't even have anyone on board to sort drums, bass, or vocals.
So am I going to do all this myself?
I could, well I mean guitars and bass I can sort easy enough....Vocals, Well depands if I have the balls to do it myself or not, either way the lyrica content may read like a kid has done em. =D
Drums, wish I had a drummer on board and the gear to make decent recordings of the drum tracks.
Instead I have three options......
1; Pay a session drummer to do them for me. You can find folks that will do this for you online, send em your track ,time sig, and bpm and they wil do a track for you and send back over. Up side to this is it would sound far more organic and live. Have feel.
I have used DooleyDrums in the past and he has been excellent. but as far as I know he doesn't supply drums to your tracks.(I could be wrong and maybe I will check this out.)
Downside is cost, can be £50 to £70 per track. Plus you can't be sure if the drummer is to your liking or if your track is to his.
2; Midi....Now I have Ezdrummer and Drum Kit From Hell. Now these were pretty good five years back, but now compared to the better programmes to hit the market mine sound very very dated.
So again it's another fork out some monies but with the added stress of having to program every single beat of you tracks in GuitarPro or other score writing app.
3; Buy ready made loops, I have used a number of these before and have had some great results with them. They come premixed and EQ'd and would save me a hell of a lot of time. I'll probs go with REX2 files as these are more flexible with the bmp you can run them at.
I'll probs use DrumOnDemand for this.
Cost wise we're £35/$54 for around 1,700 loops and these also give you some isolated kit tracks with the basic elements and single hits to buid up your own loops or to add extra depth to your tracks.
Down side to this is it can be limiting.
Anyways......
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Can we really be artists and sell music to the masses from our sitting room?
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