Ok so i've been writing some music for the past few months. As I said before I am planning to record some music for my demo. BUT, I didn't think to record music it wold be so freaking expensive. $755.00 dollars to record, I get up to 12 hours to record 3 songs. I wanted to do 5 but that will be to much work (it is impossible to record 5 songs in 12 hours). The only good thing is that they help me mix and master everything so I don't have to worry about that. Then $15 to submit my demo. oh and that's cheap, because the three songs I'm doing do not require much instruments. After meeting with my engineer last week me and him came up with the "budget". I will have to spend over $1,157.00 dollars to record the three songs I wanted. I said freak it I am not spending that much to record a demo.


Anyone else working on music. And if you are, have you worked on a demo, and how much did you spend on making one?

I've not made a demo tape of my own, but I've paid for an album recording. It cost me £530 (around $1,000ish) for recording and mastering of 15 songs. I got to feature on the album as a guest vocalist and "executive producer", and the cost of every CD purchased, until the full £530 is paid back, goes into my pocket. Sweet deal. (:

If you can't find the recording, you know the studio is suppose to have a rough copy of it. (That's how songs get leaked)

For a DEMO, you can do yourself quite cheap. I'll advise properly tomorrow, when I'm a tad more in the sober mindset to advise

For $2500 you should be able to find some cheap recording equipment that you could buy with the only downside being that you would have to do it yourself, but then you could keep the stuff and make more and more afterword there for being more bang for your buck.

Cheaper than that.

Realistically speaking, if it's just voice recording, an okay mic at $100, an interface at $100, pair of decent headphones for $50, cables, a mic stand, and a pop filter for another $50 or so. Problem then is having the expertise to get good results with the equipment. But again, unless you really have all the musicians and stuff, and know what you're doing, going into a studio you're not going to get much bang for your buck.

Thank you so much for the tips guys!! I wanted to do that at first but I'm too scared to do it. I can get musicians to record with me, the problem is that, they are older family members who I really don't talk to. I don't know how that would work. Btu this is probably what I am going to end up doing. Thanks!

Fail. I don't need to see if I'm good, I know I am.

:L Yeah but you sound different to yourself than you do to others, I was just saying, I'm sure you are very good just you might as well get some feedback before you go spending hundreds of dollars.

It's not always a stereotype, Michael Jackson, Usher, Justin Timberlake is decent and he can play guitar and piano,that's all i can think of for now lol.