What does a producer look for in a demo?

"I want to know everything that we possibly can about what's going on. I want to see a photo. Also, I want to know how the demo was recorded and what it was recorded with."

Why is that?

Firstly, great list guys. I am a small studio using digi-001 and vs-880, and came across this list on the digi user conference.

I am needing advice on Micing and recording african percussion, namely Djembe & dun-duns.

One of my favorite classic compressors is the GATES Sta-Level, and the GATES Level-Devil. These compressors are sha-wheat on lead vocals. The Level-Devil does a Exp/Comp thing that's hard to imitate with any other gear.

I've been wondering about the sort of sound where you know you're listening to a drum machine and it's crappy in a cool, fuzzy, fizzy lo-fi way.

That Primitive Radio Gods hit, "standing outside yada yada", is the most comercial example I can think of, but refence points for me would be the first Satchell album and the Twilight Singers album.

Hi,
At work, we have two fully featured Pro-Tools systems. Synchronized together we can easily achieve a track count of 128, with lot of FX and EQ. But naturally that comes at a very high price tag.

If you want more bite to your distressor for electric guitar, bass, even vocal- do not plug anything into the stereo link on the back of the unit. Then set the front of the unit to DIS2 (which I'm told boosts even-ordered harmonics) & put it in LINK mode. It adds more distortion. Sometimes the DIS3 works better depending on the instrument.

anyone know of a win2k app that can route and thru your midi like you can do with your hands and a thru box?

I am having trouble routing midi internally...seems like the midi manufacturers would have us send midi back out thru a port then back in again thereby selling many more and larger midi interfaces...

I tried midi yoke, and hubis won't run on win2k...any other ideas?

Digi, SS, Nuendo etc., Design something that will save new releases and the future of the 21 century musician from total poverty due to piracy.

I've branched this topic from the "Fixing Live Drums" thread:

Hi Zepdave,

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Please please please make a comprehensive console manager manual
especially in the mixermap definition section