Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Tue Jun 8, 2004 7:18 pm

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Hey, has anybody made some demos of their own music????


Would you be keen on swapping a copy of your demo for another via the post??

Im keen to start a mail network of getting music around phsyically instead of the net, if anyone is interested post a reply.

Cheers
rob

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:00 pm

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also could anybody help set up a website to host music? Or at least design one with that capability.....

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 6:31 pm

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Umm... What's wrong with this one?

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:16 pm

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oh i mean for later on, i want to have my own site for my music. I been playing with songs from people all over the world but they got their own sites and i need to learn how to make one for myself.....

But for the demo exchange this one is sweet.....

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:18 pm

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and like one project we did was a guy in the states did a drum track, another in england did the bass and so on, but all mine been by snail mail, i dont know how to record onto the net as well as put the finished result so that they know whos has done what.

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:44 pm

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Might be something to look at setting up. Be great if there was more than 24 hours in a day, then I could propbably help out!

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:52 pm

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Yea, i know there is a few people keen to see it happen, but we're all over the place. And i aint to good on the pc stuff, just the music side i like.

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:06 am

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Swapping demos, contributing to each others recordings, is a gret idea. But surely the physical mailing of these introduces a huge inefficiency? People share demos on this site. Surely something similar can be done with demos?

We can't assume commonality of recording software or equipment. Contributing a track should just need a rough mix of the existing backing/overdubs. The result will be one or more raw (no compression, no reverb or effects) wave files in an agreed format with offset information. These files may be large, but they're not impossibly large to share by ftp.

I'd be really keen to work with other musicians. Especially vocalists - I have two songs here at the moment I'm struggling to sing. But I'd want to mix the contributions, manage treatments, when they were ready.

So why not use web-page downloads and ftp?

Cheers ...

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 9:05 am

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But it's like Rob said, "i aint to good on the pc stuff, just the music side i like".

FTP'ing stuff around gets to complicated for most people.

Something really cool would be completely browser based, and have features like tracking versions (so you have have v1, v2, v3 of the same track, as you progress in the development of it).

Could be done... How much would people be prepared to pay to use something like this? I have no problem in setting it up for free, but all of the downloading/uploading will cost money to run.

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:09 pm

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Yea, the ideas are varied, like i want to straigth exchange demo one for one, but also have like a place where people could lay down a track so other people visiting the site could their touch to it. The idea to me is simple, but the work behind the net side of things would crush me, thru the mail idea was just so people could have 'the real deal' cd or cassette or whatever it may from the artist in its original form.

Maybe i'd have to think about making it a members club kind of thing for security reasons, but yet again i am not pc literate which is why i need help.

All suggestions are welcome though, id rather take time and do it rite than do a half assed job of it.

Thanks for your time.
Rob

RE: Exchanging demos!!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 6:11 pm

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also just on the mail note, surely it cant be that hard to put a cd or whatever in an envelope and a stamp, put in a box. Its not like you'd you'd get nothing for it hence 'exchange' of demos....

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