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Contrary to what some might say, it no longer costs $10,000+ to produce a professional song.
Affordable gear, powerful software, and the internet have all combined to create a true "revolution" in professional affordability and access for the home studio musician.
Today I want to break down 3 specific scenarios of song creation (from complete DIY all the way to hiring out most of the work) and show you the true costs to making one of your songs come to life!
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After spending so much on a good mic you have no idea how glad I am to hear I can make a good song alone for free
Lmao
You can't make a good song for free. Unless you are highly skilled at mastering you will need to pay to have it mastered. Also, you will need a mic that suits your voice. For me it is the Sontronics STC-2. For others it might be the Shure 7B or even the SM57. A lot people rave about the Rode NT-1 but it would not suit my voice. Also, if a condenser mic is too sensitive it won't be useable outside of a treated studio recording room.
Shoegaze forever Totally possible to have a great song for free! Wether you want a more complicated track or a simple and popular song!
You can make a song for free. right. but In india, no one listens to song. Everyone wants to watch the song and they always need a high quality music video. And it takes a lot of extra money to make a video. I guess you know that.
@@KoustavDasguptaMusic this is becoming true all over. A song isn't enough for people anymore, it has all become so visual. Moving away from why I love music in the first place
Once again, Graham, you knock it out of the park! Great insight, fantastic knowledge, shared - graciously and humbly. Thank you!
Always on point with your videos! Been watching you since I got in the game about 3 years ago!! You'll always have my support brother
Thank you so much for your tips. Your video answered more questions than I expected
Graham - Just want to let you know that your videos are great!!! You really know you're stuff!! Great work..
Awesome, solid, fluff-free content as always! I've made a "zero-variable-cost" album with a basic setup including studio monitors, but sound-wise, that only got me so far. The next step is to take the best songs from that album and make an EP with some outside help.
Very informative video . I have used 1 and 2 scenarios and found them very rewarding but get greater satisfaction from #1 . This came from gaining greater knowledge by going to University and doing a course in music production which then gave me confidence to do it myself and then realising music and mixing is a subjective thing. The only thing I’m not really confident in is mastering , so I source that out .
I like both, by myself and with others. I used to do it on a Zoom HD8, and only started working with a DAW 2 years ago and there is just no comparison. Amazing what you can do now if you take the time to learn it!! Thanks, Graham!!
You're gonna also need some talent... and that my friend, is priceless!
Couldn't agree more!!!
How do you know if I have talent or not? you haven't heard me yet. In that regard, I also haven't listened to your songs, I do not know your name.. that does not mean you are not talented. Think wisely before saying anything. Do some market research on how the system works, how music is becoming a business.
@@KoustavDasguptaMusic When did he say you did not have talent?
Finally! Someone else said it besides me, lol..
This is for someone who's already talented and is willing to make it big
I've been using the first option, but those sites you mention sounds like a great idea, besides what you said about having another head thinking about a song makes sense. Thanks a lot!
I've used all sorts of recording equipment for over the years, Comadore 64, Atari, Tascam tape, Yamaha AW4416. It is only now using Logic X as a home recording hobbiest that I truly feel happy.
I do remind myself that the Beatles did great things on 4 track, however with the opportunities available to us and doing all the donkey work at home, us hobbiests can now access people who are better to polish up our endeavours if you have faith in your song. I haven't tried it yet but I am considering the options. Not everyone wants to be a star, it is such a great hobby as well writing songs.
Well said. I started recording myself using two cassette decks around 1980. From there went to four track cassette and now I'm on Logic Pro. It's a lifelong hobby and I still LOVE it!
Learning to play guitar in the 80's I could only dream of even getting to record in a studio. Flash forward to mid 2000's and the magic of a Boss BR-1600 digital studio. Made my first album on that with all real musicians. Today we are spoiled! This is an awesome hobby. The fame and super rock star b.s. is such a goofy mindset to have. I do it just because it is so enjoyable to express myself with music and become a better musician!
Dude,,exactly! Just because we do it as a hobby doesnt mean we need to settle for less : )
I started serious recording in 1969 using an Ampex 4 track recorder like the one George Martin used for the Beatles along with vintage U47 and U67 mics (setup in my basement). But it's a wonderful time right now when people can get seriously great equipment for a rather small investment.
thanks, Graham. That was awesome!
Outstanding video Graham! Had never heard of SoundBetter. Just what I need.
Useful reflection and information. Thanks Graham
I definitely recommend the Scarlett 2i2 3rd Gen with a Bluebird mic AMAZING setup! 🙏💯👍😁 Awesome vid graham!
Hey! I didn't know you actually released that song of yours bro! I remember watching the video of you recording it. Just added the song to my playlist on Spotify. I've seen ALOT of instructional videos where the instructor really isn't all that great as far as musical talent, but i was REALLY impressed with your song "Bury It". I love it, bro! Thanks for being you and keep up the great work, brother! #Salute #RayAnthony
Thanks for all the stuff Graham.
Hey thanks for this information Graham! Very useful!
Many thanks for this amazing information. Blessings
Love my Rode nt1a mic, only $100.
Amazin time for music.
It's around $270 .. here .. is it 2nd handed .. the one you're issuing?
@@yoboi2.044 I got the bundle (with pop shield, lead and shock mount) for about $150 last year.
This is a very helpful video. For me, mainly the parts about the resources available on Sound Better. For the home-recording part, I think the presentation makes it seem far easier than it is. I am a working musician and a computer-savvy person, but just even trying to figure out how to do the simplest navigation, settings or editing in Garageband, Logic, Cakewalk, Reaper, Pro Tools or any other DAW has stopped me for years from getting anything done or even started.
Thanks for making vids dude. I use my ipad. No mics. Only my ipad with Garageband.
I legit finished a video like this. lol thanks Graham you saved my business.
I'm definitely blessed. I have a well appointed home studio with a couple of Neumanns that I picked up in Vegas pawnshops when I was on holiday. I also have NI Komplete 12, EZDrummer, EZBass and some nice plugins.
What I didn't have was focus and time. Since lockdown started I've been looking at the tutorials I've bought over the last few years, including Graham's!
A couple of years ago I went to a local studio to make a particular 10 song album that I wanted quick and professional. I paid around €1400. Money well spent, especially as I became friendly with the owner and now he gives me feedback on my mixes and helps me with my own recording progress. Every day's a school day. 😀
great overview of different ways to do song production 😮
Hi Graham, a cyber band is another option. I was in a rock band in the 70’s (that gives you an idea of my age) and when it split we lost touch with each other for about 20 years plus. Gradually though we found one another and, although we are spread about in different parts of the UK, we are making music together again thanks to the internet. We all have our own individual recording facilities but only one of us has a fully equipped studio. I do most of the writing, lay down a scratch track and send it to the guys whereupon they send back their ideas/input. We have a weekly Skype session where we discuss the projects on which we are working and kick around any other ideas. Once we have final tracks laid down I usually go to the guy with the studio and we create the mixes together. Unfortunately, covid-19 has prevented us from doing any mixing of late so we are getting a back log now. We are just doing it for our own amusement these days but it’s giving us a lot of enjoyment.
thank you this is very good information.
Such a good video. I grew up saving and spending my money recording with bands. Later I worked at on of the biggest studios in Dallas as a recording engineer. Today, I am amazed at how inexpensive it is to record at home these days. It’s no wonder that that pro studio went tits up 10 years ago. When recovering from the H1N1 flu (That literally killed me , but was resuscitated in an ambulance in my driveway back in 2014). During my recovery (which was extensive) - I tuned into your “5 minutes to a better mix’ series (or something like that). You taught me to look at ProTools as something I could legitimately do at home. When ProTools went to “subscription” based, I switched to Logic Pro X. Regardless, you have been my mentor. Thank you for sharing your talent with this community. You were my first “real” teacher. Now I have a career producing music with my home studio. Thank you. God bless your family - especially in this time of pandemic. Be safe.
Wow, quite a story. Glad you're doing good these days. Take care!
In west, work culture is different than east.
Great Info For The People To Hear Keep Up The Great Knowledge
Me I do everything myself but my whole life has been centered around music and musicians and I have built a network of people I can go to for free help for work on almost every type of instrument or vocal or mixing help ect ect. Go out and make some friends my music lovers!
YOU have knocked out the fear First,about the Recording..The tech.Fear,wiped off by ART of recording..you have kindled to venture on and on..Graham..Rare to find..Gratitude..DrNanda..India
I had usually done a "full service" scenario where I made "demos" on my home setup and those helped save $$$ in pre-production time. Still, paying session players, studio time, mastering services and 1000 cd's, I'm in a project for around $10k. It's great quality, but I hate spending that kind of money. I've had a ProTools rig for a number of years on a 2009 Macbook. Been working on a new set of songs where I am using EZ Drummer, then playing all the Bass, Acoustic, Keyboard/Piano, Pedal Steel and Electric Guitar parts all myself. They're turning out pretty good, but still don't quite have that super professional quality to it yet. It's all about the ear, and though I am learning, I'm not quite there yet. Doesn't help that I'm mobile most of the time and doing everything on AT ATH-M50 headphones.
Thanks Graham, you're a treasure.
Once again, thanks for the honest and inspirational video. Where on earth do you get your constant
energy from?
JohnB
Really great breakdown
I used studiopros.com to hire a singer and other musicians and was always very satisfied with the results.
Thanks Graham, for the great videos / resources. Ive written 50-60 songs so far.. Once inspiration strikes, I flesh out / record a song draft- a capella.
I've manually transcribed / played some of the songs on my Casio keyboard. Which version of Finale is best for digital transcription?
Though for now, I plan to acquire a home studio / learn the software while recording / producing my songs... I'm also considering remote partnerships with musician-producers in other cities and overseas. Which software is best for live, digital collaboration? Thanks!
I use my only at2020 condenser microphone to record my vocals, y EQ them later and fix any kind of miss tempo, and try to mix everything myself, badly. I use Landr for mastering, and let me tell that mostly of times it just help to increase volume... That's why i want to learn all by myself and start from scratch
I pretty much do everything but I really like working with a mastering engineer and looking for other options as far as mastering engineers
Sir, Good information , Thank you, From kerala👏👏👏🙏😁💕💕
Interesting to hear how much it would cost from outsourcing since I do all of the music myself. I've been curious about using Sound better though, will have to check it out sometime. I do a variation on method 1, because I wind up hiring someone to make my album art for me and then there's also distribution costs. But as far as making the music, I do it all for 0$.
I normally do the drums, bass, and acoustic guitar myself, then I use all Nashville pro players on all other instruments, like Electric Guitar, Piano and so forth. I produce, engineer and master it myself leaves me with a way to make a good portion from the demo price.
Hey graham. Thanks for the content. What type of camera are you using?
This is great!
I’ve heard that for the big names in Nashville like Jason Aldean, it costs about 50,000 USD to record a full album. But that’s hiring the session players, the engineers, the producers, the studio time, fees, etc.
Sir is it okay to use a crack daw? Will it gives me trouble in the future ? What is the down side for using a crack Daw? Please help
I have been doing things the hard way for the past 3 years ie writing, recording, mixing and mastering. For the past 3yrs the results have been sh*tty. As we speak now there has been a massive improvement since I invested in room treatment and using references for mixing and mastering. So I guess I have it figured out to a point. Thanks for your encouragement Graham.
Mixing and mastering? Do you pay these people?
Thanks sir for information..
If I had to rank all factors that contribute to a successful production, it would look like this (In that specific order):
50% - Great emotional and technical performance (you can have a bad song played well and it will still work, but not vice versa)
25% - Great Songwriting and arrangement that fits your abilities and tools available.
12.5% - quality of the musical instrument and tuning
6.25% - Recording Process (Studio, mics, engineering)
3.125% - Mixing
1.5625% - Mastering
-Everything else is luck
How I know this ? Worked in a studio for 6 years. Did hundreds of sessions and only those who prioritized their work based on the model above succeeded.
so if you're not sure where to spend your budget, spend it on a rehearsal room and pend and paper, or best sessions musicians and songwriters.
Hello 'f'riend.Could you tell us how do you sell your music?There is a lots of people teaching '' how to make your 1000 fans list '' but does it work?It doesn't matter how much song cost.What matters is how to sell it?Do you know how to do it?Do you use Distrokod?Which is stilling money from musicians?How do you do it?Can you help?I play 38 years.Always ready to work with people but cant find singers for heavy rock.So my home studio needs a singer.Do you know how to find musicians ready to cooperate?Too many questions, i know.
I wanna do everything by myself!
Excellent!
The examples you gave are fine, but if you really want to do it in a professional way, it will cost you more than that.
First the studio. While your bundle solutions are quite inexpensive, they come with a lot of limitation on the DAW/pluggin side: you will be able to record good audio, but the rest will be of an average quality. I remember buying Abelton live suite a few years ago. Although I was able to produce and arrange everything, I was disappointed in using the pluggins for mastering. As I attended a course on mastering, everytime I submitted my homeworks, I couldn't achieve the best note. I first thought I wasn't good enough but then I bought Izotope Ozone. At the very beginning, I couldn't easily achieve what I thought was pretty simple. I realized my embedded pluggins couldn't provide the granularity and precision Ozone would give me. When I learned Ozone, sticking out the presets, I resubmitted some of my homeworks to my teacher and there was a huge improvement. So, for mixing and mastering, it's better to have dedicated pluggins rather than the stocks one hat come with your DAW. You can have decent ones like Ozone for about 400 bucks or you can go for things like Waves bundles that can cost up to 3000 dollars, according to what you want.
If you want to hire session musicians, composers, arrangers, or sound enginers, you could do the way you show, which is fairly inexpensive, but most of the time, you will pay them according to the time they will spend on your project.The average cost is about 70 dollars an hour. One song would take about one hour for each of them at best. Sometimes one can spend 2 hours up to 8 hours, specifically in the composing, arranging, mixing or mastering parts. So let's say you hire 3 sessions musicians, an arranger, a mixing enginer and a mastering enginer, for 10 tracks it will cost you at least 4200 dollars.
I have been doing the scenario 1 from the very beginning... Although I don't master my track, I don't really care, lol...
Skill, skill, and skill.
I chose option 2. I did most of the production myself and hired a few live players. The track I produced just made Billboard’s Most Added list in smooth jazz this week! Thanks Recording Revolution! charts.bdsradio.com/bdsradiocharts/charts.aspx?formatid=8
Hey Graham or someone - for Option 2, how do you transmit the song you recorded at home to a producer / musician? What file(s) do you send? Do you usually send a file that has been partially mixed in a DAW at home? Does the producer / musician have to have the same DAW to work with your file? Thanks...
@Timmy P Great, thanks ..
My most problem is about lyrics and melody!....nothing more....what about that prices?
I think you left out a key part of the DIY option: studio monitors. They’d bring the total up by at least $100-200. They’re not necessary if you’re just messing around, but they’ve made a world of difference for me while mixing. I used to use crappy headphones, and the audio would sound okay on them but terrible on everything else. Since studio monitors play back the full range of audible frequencies in a balanced way, they’re best way to ensure you make a quality mix (along with listening on a variety of headphones and speakers to get a sampling of what the song sounds like with different playback devices)
I was listening to the song Bang by AJR and at first i thought it was you.. 😄
How many apples are there on appletrees? How long is a fish?
Could you do a video on licensing songs etc and performing covers and posting legally etc
Soundrop for cover songs licensing. 9.95 per cover song last time I checked and they obtain the rights for you.
How much did you pay for your DAW? I've used this DAW for over 10 years. Since Bandlab took it under its wing, CAKEWALK is now FREE! I used to have to pay hundreds of dollars for this software, but now it's FREE!
Aww too bad. I was expecting you talking about song commissions and how much one should charge for it. Still, good video!
It's funny because if you want to sell a track like a ghost producer for example, the average is £200 to £1,000 but that also costs a DAW or a plugin, that is, you have to sell more than two tracks to be able to recover minimally what you invested in your equipment and studies.
The more songs I record, the more I can amortize my around $10,000 investment in hardware, software and serious microphones. I'm down to around $156 per song released into the "wild" (CDs/Digital downloads) over the last 5 years and still recording more. I want to add my thanks again to you Graham for your videos that helped me transition from analog mixing to mixing "in the box".
You’re a really good guitar player!!
@@afz5355 Thank You (blush). You've got a beautiful voice as well. I often record and produce guitar and bass parts for friends over the internet.
It costs time, and the value of time is individual. There, now I am going to watch the video. :D
I compose my songs since 2015 but I don’t have any idea how can I record or produce my own music. Thanks for your idea I just really wanna share my songs but don’t know how to 😭😭
Actually, I have few audio samples but I don’t have any recorder so it’s not really clear but I’ll buy this basic home studio.
I recorded my first Cristian CD I recorded the bass/2 tracks bajo sexto/drum machine/2vocal tracks/accordion/at primo sound studio in TOLEDO OHIO he charged me 25 dol an hr to use his studio I did all editing n mixing n final mix and kept the master it cost me 700 dol studio n sent CD to make 300 so I spent 1000dol on my CD that's why I'm gonna do it in my studio
700 USD for how many songs?
You know what the sad thing about musicians is?? A musician records his/her song investing a certain amount of money. He/she gives his/her full effort to make it.. but, now-a-days, most of the people do not listen to music, they just want to WATCH the music...all they need is a music video... and for that video, the musician again needs to pay a huge amount of money to make it... I haven't seen any Video guy struggling with his/her work to get published... video guys get fundings, sponsors..musicians are outcasted.. they dont get sponsors... videoguys, society exploits musicians.. all he time... this is bad.
You've spoken the reality!👍🏼
@@davidpearson6346 Brother.. Come to India.. make music.... you will eventually know what I am saying and why I am saying... You cannot say which song is great, which song is not if you do not try to listen to it for once.. In here, people only need a great video.... many songs are there, but people do not listen to them since they dont have any video... I think you stay in a better place than I do... Stay in peace brother...
I think the first and foremost thing a musician should recognize is the chances of making it as a musician are very small regardless of whether you have a video or not. At the end of the day if you are a musician you become one not because "most of the people do not listen to music" No you are doing it because you yourself love the music. Of course it will be nice for your music to catch on and more people to hear it but at the end of the day we started doing music because we alone as the creators wanted to hear our own songs. We do music because we want to and we accept the reality that maybe 0.1% of musicians will ever become "successful" but we continue to do music anyway because we are doing this for ourselves first - it is our drug - and we ourselves cannot do without it with little care whether the rest of the world seems to be doing without it.
Interesting ! I have one question about scenario 3 : if you are a songwriter (singer and composer) asking a producer to produce and mix/master the whole song. If you ask the producer to work as a "featuring", will you have to pay around 2000 dollars, or is it considered "normal" if you pay nothing because you are collaborating on a common project ? Thanks !
I can answer. Sounds like you're talking about a producer-engineer not strictly a producer (because mixing/mastering is engineering not producing). The answer is "no" it is no normal for you to pay nothing even if you have "featuring" - you're enlisting a service from another individual and typing the words "featuring" won't help them pay their bills - they will want and you should be expecting to pay. Alternatively, if the producer is like a family member or something obviously it might be different but if you have no family/friends agreement (and be careful trying to sell the friends angle to someone you don't know that will annoy someone fairly easily) then you have to pay. You may float the idea of customizing your payment in the sense of instead of paying a flat high fee you pay a slightly reduced fee with a % of your masters for your song being given to the producer/engineer in exchange - but producer/engineer may not agree to this if they don't anticipate the record to do well enough to recoup the payment off of your percentage split or if they are not interested in royalty split deals. But yes some form of payment is to be expected DJD. Hope the answer is helpful.
Okay, interesting... Yes it is helpful ! But I always imagined that when 2 artists decide to collaborate together (in the EDM scene, where songs cost nothing to produce most of the time), none of the artists had to pay something (like in a band, the singer is not paying the drummer or the guitarist). In a way, I find a bit strange that someone is asking money when it's a collaboration...
@@nova2294 I'm not sure what you mean by songs cost nothing to produce. Good instrumentation/production and arrangement of that production to be stimulating is very difficult. And then mixing/mastering aka engineering the balance of said production with or even without vocals is not easy at all and is why people make careers out of it. Definitely it costs money. And two artist collaborations again it depends on the relationship: if you are both artists at a similar point in your careers and you both are open to collaboration with the mindset that it's mutually beneficial to both of you i.e. you having them and them having you being something you both can benefit from regardless of the traction the song gets then yes of course you may collaborate for free between yourselves. However, if you're asking someone who works with other clients and especially other clients who have more "hype" than you and thus you asking the producer or engineer or artist to give their time to you when you will benefit more from featuring / enlisting the services of them than they would benefit from pairing with you then to be compensated for their time they will want payment more often than not. It's the time that has value too to many producers/engineers/other artists. And collabs can go south sometimes so you can imagine if you ask someone to dedicate time to you and then you never end up releasing the song or the song releases and does much more poorly than anticipated the opposing party may not feel their time was well spent especially if not compensated financially. Now sometimes if an engineer/producer/artist really really really believes in the song or you they will do something for free with the knowledge/certain expectation that the song will "blow" - doesn't happen very often. Or if you have something they can gain from e.g. a massive social media following that although not monetary in value provides significant exposure value a collaborator may be more willing to do free work as well. But generally speaking people unrelated to you and who have no clear evidence to know that the song will become a hit amongst the thousands of songs released everyday will want payment as compensation!
Also keep in mind often major label artists will pay for features from other artists and vice versa even at that high of a level because it is the music business after all - unless in the cases of some artists who are "tight" they may not pay each other for features because they collaborate often enough and have seen good results together enough to know working together with their natural chemistry instead of behind a paywall will still lead to massive financial benefit in the form of multiple collaborations that all end up doing well. And also many major label artists collaborate for free because the other artist is also signed to the same label so there is no need to pay in that case because the label would be paying itself meaning the net loss or gain of funds in the transaction is 0 aha so no point.
if i hire musicians and my song is a hit, are they gonna want more money?
Anyone looking for mixing ?
Though I have the gear at home, I opted to record at my friend's studio. This was for my Christmas song that I released last October. I brought in one musician, a guitarist. I played all the keyboards & sang all the vocals. The engineer, my friend who owns the studio did the drum programming. And when all was said & done, I spent about $4,000. It begs the question: Do I get carried away? Answer: Probably so!
Is there anywhere I can listen to it?
$4,000 on the gear plus your friends studio session or just the session?
@@jhakardballoch2986 You can listen to the song & see the video at: th-cam.com/video/h4qMZsWacyg/w-d-xo.html
@@thomas37495 Most of that $4,000 went towards studio time. The rate was $60 per hour and that included the engineer.
One thing, you can go down the rabbit hole doing this! There is an entire industry working hard to take as much of your money as they can LOL!
how long is a piece of string? it costs time, as much time as you're willing to put into it. doesn't include the cost of gear because you don't get an idea then buy the gear to make it work, the gear helps to inspire the idea. some will treat music or any artform as a hobby and others will take their art more seriously and turn it into a business rather than working a dead-end low wage job and just being happy making music people won't hear and playing for "exposure". some people are too humble and self-conscious to be go-getters and reach their true potential as an artist. I work in a music shop with musicians who get walked all over by venue owners, make them play four hours without breaks (not joking) and they let it happen because they've made the choice to undervalue themselves and their skill sets by letting a rich guy who has the monopoly on live music venues in the city determine their worth. unless your music isn't interesting and sounds like everyone else with a guitar or you're trying to emulate boring radio music because your horizons are limited as far as inspiration to draw from, then you should value yourself and your art more than you value your day job or anyone else's opinion about what you're trying to do. Not to say quit your job to make music as that would be irresponsible, just don't ever let someone make you put your self-expression on the back burner. I recommend keeping your goals to yourself and only showing the outcome.
Zynewave Podium is another DAW that is completely free.
Traktion is another free DAW
Getgood drums are where it's at Nolly Getgood doesn't mess around
Graham, I wonder if you have ever considered stepping away from the Windows/Mac paradigm and investigating the world of Linux. With distributions like Ubuntu Studio available, musicians who want to record music (or do many other content creative things) can get started and better with a $0 software investment. Ubuntu Studio includes a DAW, an alternative to ASIO, many plugins and a few plugin hosts, and makes much more available to the user -- free of charge! Much of the software is less pretty to look at, you have to be computer savvy because you are your own tech support, and documentation can be problematical or nonexistent, so it's not for everyone. I suggest strongly that you check it out, though -- especially since Microsoft seems increasingly happy to leave bugs intact. Give it a look; you might be able to drop the price of that least-expensive home studio -- maybe enough for a good set of used studio monitors!
So basically it has issues like every other system out there, and just because it is free, that isn't always a good selling point. Why would you even suggest that somebody goes off into using a system that isn't widely used by the majority? That is only asking for problems.
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I've been recording for decades. There's too many variables to take into consideration to come up with even a ball park figure. Anywhere from free to several thousand dollars
.........a studio and engineer will run you anywhere from $40 an hour to a cpl hundred
#1 rough idea
#2 demo recording
#3 production
Really nice breakdown, thanks. Regarding the three options - I have produced (beginner level) my own music, but I luckily have a gifted producer and musician in the family (Ray Jenkins: soundcloud.com/ray-jenkins). The difference he made to my music was amazing.
Up side of doing it yourself for a decade... if you get really good then you can charge others for your skills.
Scenario #1 most of the time
0.045 kwh x 50hrs = 2.25 x 21.7p = £5.43 ish + coffee
Or get signed by a label and they do it for you lol
Wow it cost
Nothing, I own my studio
Far cheaper to just buy mixing university and learn to do everything your self!
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I came to this comment section to see how many people are using GarageBand
It costs thousands to make a quality song. Let’s be real. The basic gear doesn’t cut it. You’re going to want a real ProTools setup and a Focusrite. If you record drums, you’re talking numerous mics, etc., most people can’t master as good as a quality mastering engineer, hiring any needed musicians. Thousands. Music is not free for the musician, only for the ungrateful consumer.
Definitely don't agree with your comment. You can have basic gear and you don't need Pro Tools, that is not a requirement. People have used Garage Band and released quality music, and that is fact.
You shouldnt be trying to make songs for free. Invest in your craft
I see you deleted the BLM video, glad to see you just sticking to music. You lost me on that one. Your videos used to be an escape from the garbage I am bombarded with everywhere else. Hope it remains that way.