Today I am going to describe an important phase. Imagine that you have composed a few songs, and you are convinced they are quite good. What could you do with them?
In case of the Beautiful Life project, my thought was to do something similar like I did with the Katsy Redstar children CD in 2009: Record the songs, and based on the quality of the recording decide what to do with ‘em
• If the quality is fantastic produce a CD and make it available for everybody
• If the quality is OK, have a fine version to enjoy on my iPod and only give it to some friends
In January 2010 I had about 15 to 20 songs in the pipeline, where I was convinced they have potential to record them properly. Typically you have two options to do so: a) do it in home recording or b) go to a professional studio.
Option b) was in my case not a real option. A professional recording studio simply cost to much if you don’t have a commercial sponsor, e.g. a record company or label. Therefore I didn’t consider option b) at all. I also don’t wanted to be tied to any record-deal and want to spend my rare and valuable time trying to get A+R’s attention. I am believe my music is to individual to go mainstream.
I had some luck in early February, meeting more o less by accident my old pal Alex Goeppert. I was playing with Alex from 2004 to 2007 in an alternative rock band in Mannheim, Germany. We have not been in touch for the last two years and somehow got into email exchange. We scheduled for a joint dinner to chat about the good old times.
At dinner Alex told me that he has started to play around with some recording equipment. Mainly to record his own songs to be independent from paying for a studio (option b). He offered me to have a look at his stuff. This was quite interesting to me, as I was thinking, if I should start getting into more advanced homerecording recording it by myself.
A couple of weeks later we met at Alex apartment and recorded two demo tracks with Garage-Band. The interesting thing: Alex had build a ‘Sound-Box’. A 1,5 x 1,5 square meter wide sound-isolating room inside his apartment. This allowed us to separate the signals - voice & guitar - very much from any other noise and room-acoustic behavior.
The quality we reached in 4 hours with the recording & mix of two demo songs –Small World and Trust- was simply awesome. Alex also liked the songs. And after another week, we had made a small plan to jointly record more songs. This was the starting point for the recording of Beautiful Life.
You will read about it in my upcoming blog post.
Best regards
Katsy Redstar
• If the quality is fantastic produce a CD and make it available for everybody
• If the quality is OK, have a fine version to enjoy on my iPod and only give it to some friends
In January 2010 I had about 15 to 20 songs in the pipeline, where I was convinced they have potential to record them properly. Typically you have two options to do so: a) do it in home recording or b) go to a professional studio.
Option b) was in my case not a real option. A professional recording studio simply cost to much if you don’t have a commercial sponsor, e.g. a record company or label. Therefore I didn’t consider option b) at all. I also don’t wanted to be tied to any record-deal and want to spend my rare and valuable time trying to get A+R’s attention. I am believe my music is to individual to go mainstream.
I had some luck in early February, meeting more o less by accident my old pal Alex Goeppert. I was playing with Alex from 2004 to 2007 in an alternative rock band in Mannheim, Germany. We have not been in touch for the last two years and somehow got into email exchange. We scheduled for a joint dinner to chat about the good old times.
At dinner Alex told me that he has started to play around with some recording equipment. Mainly to record his own songs to be independent from paying for a studio (option b). He offered me to have a look at his stuff. This was quite interesting to me, as I was thinking, if I should start getting into more advanced homerecording recording it by myself.
A couple of weeks later we met at Alex apartment and recorded two demo tracks with Garage-Band. The interesting thing: Alex had build a ‘Sound-Box’. A 1,5 x 1,5 square meter wide sound-isolating room inside his apartment. This allowed us to separate the signals - voice & guitar - very much from any other noise and room-acoustic behavior.
The quality we reached in 4 hours with the recording & mix of two demo songs –Small World and Trust- was simply awesome. Alex also liked the songs. And after another week, we had made a small plan to jointly record more songs. This was the starting point for the recording of Beautiful Life.
You will read about it in my upcoming blog post.
Best regards
Katsy Redstar
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