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possible stupid question, but how have you gone about getting gigs with practice session recording? Essentially, i need to do this. I have a new band, I want to start sorting some live stuff and ideally without the rigmarole of 'proper' recording, the new project is intended to be much more chill/less work than previous ones.
jackbepablo-
We just put some stuff on soundcloud to include in emails to different places, but to be honest none of those emails have resulted in anything. We ended up with an agency for the first couple which we were fine with just to get some confidence and live practice in. No idea if they listened to the stuff we'd uploaded or if they just give everyone a go with a first gig then as we sold enough tickets were offered some more dates and stuff. Then one of the guitarists mates came to the last gig we did and asked if we want to play at something their band is playing at. Now we've got slightly better quality recordings of the practice sessions, and have been able to upload some live stuff to Instagram and that, I'm going to try emailing round to the places again to see if they have any interest now.
ric_a5
Interested to hear how this comes out sounding. My band have started gigging now, done a couple over summer and have a third lined up early September, but we've got nothing recorded other than practice sessions on out phones and the Zoom H1N that I got. It's great for that purpose but not for anything to release. But I really want to go down the DIY route of recording stuff ourselves just as another fun creative avenue that we can all pitch in and learn together.