num_pages: 240
description: Electronic Musician Associate Editor Gino Robair shows you the essential steps for making a demo tape. He teaches you how to target your audience, put together a gear checklist, and prepare a room for recording, with info on choosing and using a mixer, power amps, patch bays and mics. Other topics analog vs. digital; demo formats (CD-R, DAT and cassette); home studio maintenance techniques; and the fundamentals of multitracking, overdubbing, track bouncing, dynamics processing, and recording instruments. Robair also covers what to do when your ultimate demo's in the can, Demo Shopping 101, stalking the deal makers, press kit etiquette, lawyers, AandR reps, managers, self-publishing, starting your own label, and more!
language: English
title: Making the Ultimate Demo
titlecomplete: Making the Ultimate Demo
publisher: ArtistPro