Jeid

Do you know if the recording setup is gonna be sorted for next weekend?

The Maxon is GRAND. I've compared it to an Ibanez yeah.. not a TS808 though. Maxon used to make all the Ibanez pedals in the 80's though... so it's all good.

I've used Boss DS-1, DS-2 and SD-1, Pro Co Rat, Crowther Hotcake, Ibanez TS-7, Maxon OD-808 and an Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff.

I still have my SD-1, but I don't use it. I run my Maxon OD-808 in front of my Mesa Boogie as a boost.

I liked the Rat on its own though.

Just realised it's also on Emusic as well.

Renaissance, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic

Amazon.com: Renaissance [Explicit]: MP3 Downloads: Astronot

You can check samples of our mini album on the above link

It's only 3 for the whole album.. a bargain!

Should be on iTunes in the next couple of weeks. Cheers for looking.

I've got a 4x12 and a 2x12... neither for sale

I've been reading about them on the HC forums... lots of DOA's and a couple of blown caps... that's not supposed to happen!

They're basically copying the Peavey XXX, 5150(or 6505 as it's now known) and the JSX head.

Supposed to be fine if you must, but it's not the kind of amp you'd rely on for gigging. There's better amps out there in the 2nd hand market, for the same price.

If we don't get a gig on the 18th... We're coming all the way from Thurso for it

And another two!! Just rotated them around...

Come on... 100 views and no comment... someone must have something to say?

We're playing in the Moorings on April 19th as it so happens...

Aw dammit

We were hoping to catch him when we're down next month. Good luck to Pete.

Is that the big man playing bass? I always wondered what he'd look like without his beard

8am on sunday night? wtf

We've just been in the studio to record some new songs for our new CD.

MySpace.com - Astronot !!NEW TRACKS UPLOADED!! - UK - Rock - www.myspace.com/astronotmusic

Hope you like

Jamie

We've done 2 already. We do the other 3 next week... really looking forward to it. It's a pretty relaxed place with great gear. The track on myspace isn't properly mixed... it was done at 4am when we were all really tired(we'd been working since 10am that day). We've dedicated a day of our time this week to mixing the bitch down and getting it sounding as bestest as possible.

Even STI's?

Sweet!

EDIT: We're spending 5 days recording

Well, here's our outlay for doing our CD's.

The card for the sleeves: 0

The Printing of the sleeves: 0

The printer to print onto the Cd's: 100

The Cd's to put the music on: 15-20 for 100

Obviously, there's man time from us all, but it's a good time to have a drink and get the craic.

All we need to do is sell 40-50 @ 3 each to recoup our costs. Not bad.

I think 3 for 6 or 7 songs is a steal...

EDIT: I should include that our recording sessions were 300 a day plus vat.

Yeah, we do indeed. The first track from the Cd is on myspace...

MySpace.com - Astronot - UK - Rock / Punk - www.myspace.com/astronotmusic

if you check our website, there's another song on there if you click play

Astronot || Official Website

these are tracks were recorded last July at The Byre, they've not been properly mixed yet, we didn't have time. Ended up finishing our second day at 4am... nae good. Mark was good to work with.

I'm a big fan of release packaging (particularly first/early ones) being very home grown, having some human contact in them, giving a genuine idea of where the band/artist is instead of trying to impress with fancy artwork and cases. Plus i find 'professional' looking things makes me care less about hearing the actual music.

So i like cardboard slipcases.

We did fancy artwork on our last CD, and it looked awesome, but it was just a CD in a case to me... we've already sorted out a production line for these

TBH, we're not 100% bothered about recouping costs....

Is 3 a decent price for a Cd with 6 or 7 songs on it?

I'm of the opinion that, even if I was personally unsure of a band, ie, I'd seen them and thought they were ok, they had a Cd and it was 3, I'd buy it... if it was half a Pavarotti... I'd maybe think again.

My drummer made them at work. It's just plain white card with that tinted used sort of effect on it. He's just used a template, folded it together and voila!

I think it looks nice. I just need to get a printer to print onto the CD's.

Ok, Now I have to do a shameless plug.

Would you pay 3 for this if you liked us? The songs are good quality recordings with a good engineer in a great studio.

Front:

Back:

We're recording at The Byre with Mark Thomas. It'll be properly mixed and mastered. We're just looking at how to get maximum exposure without having people think it's "too expensive".

3 for 6 or 7 songs isn't really much of a risk, it's a good deal for punters I think.

I was thinking that we'd be more likely to sell cd's at out of town shows for 3 rather than 5

My band are planning a release at the end of the month. This isn't a plug, but more, research and how others release their material.

We're going to release a 6 or 7 song mini-album. We thought about paying for 400 cd's to be duplicated with the jewel case, insert and all that pish.

Then I read some things on the internet and thought we'd do it ourselves. Our drummer works at a printers, so all the cardboard sleeves would be free(although labour intensive), I can burn all the CD's and print directly onto the CD's. This would keep our costs down, it would keep the sell on costs down and we'd be able to make as many as we needed, when we needed.

If we were to pay for all the CD's to be duplicated for us, we'd be trying to get our money back asap as it would cost us near 500. This way, we save money as do potential buyers.

So, my questions.(assuming you liked what you heard)

How important is the quality of the product on offer?

If my band were selling a cd in a jewel case with professionally printed artwork etc, would you be willing to pay 5, or would you be put off?

Even if you REALLY liked the band?

If we were selling the same CD, with the same songs, but in a cardboard sleeve, printed at home and manually put together. Would 3 be very reasonable? I

f you only just liked the band, would you be more willing to part with the 3 because it's cheap?

We're planning on possibly putting the songs on our website and sticking a donation button on with it. It'd effectively be like what Radiohead did, but with no minimum cost.

How much would you pay for the tracks?

What if you really liked us?

What if you'd only heard the stuff on myspace?

We're trying to claw back our recording costs as well as reaching as many people as possible with our music. I don't mind if we make fuck all back, I just want people to hear it. In fact, on the first issue of the artwork we did, it says: "Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording is encouraged"

Are we selling ourselves short? Or going about it the right way?