When you guys buy an album...

[tweed]

release date?

well to tell you the truth i havent started recording it yet lol. but i have finished the hardest part, and thats writing all the tunes. now i just need to re-record them in the studio with some good players.

Awesome. Let me know when its available, I definately want a copy.

 

[mentoneman]

im not doing this at home.....

and i didn't mean to imply you were either...don't get me wrong man, you are an excellent player---i admire your skills and you pull tones that are very inspired and are probably one of those guys who could manage to record something great at home.

my comments were in general. i receive tons of recorded stuff from different levels of musicians produced in many different environments and have participated in handfuls of live and studio recordings over the years and 9 times out of 10 you can pick out which projects were done for real and which were home brewed. and to answer your original question, i guess that is what i listen for first.

and for the record, nothing i've ever recorded on my own time for fun have i ever taken seriously. it's all about how little time i can burn recording amp clips

ok here's one exception:
my friend came to me with a handheld digital recorder with a vocal melody she had hummed into it and asked if i could do anything with it.

i came up with an acoustic chord progression for it in one sitting, asked my drummer friend to lay down a track, and got 3 free hours at my other friends protools studio. i played the acoustic in 2 takes which we merged together, bass into a bass POD with a neve front end, she sang some crude lyrics. he gave me a rough mix. i added a string arrangement i put together using garage band, and recorded my oldest son playing a yamaha digital piano and added that, and then had my 12 yr old son sing an added section to fill it out, looping/pasting the original drum track to extend the track, and added an additional acoustic track at home through my fishman aura into my roland vs880, mixed together in garage band.

took me 3 half days total to go from humming to this point, and i took this a little more seriously :
friend's demo

 

[Gainiac]

Specifically instrumental guitar stuff, what makes you buy it? The tunes? The melodies? The tones? The chops? The album art? Im just curious as im recording my solo project, and trying to create something that appeals to a wide range of people.

All of the above, but for me, Absolutely the dynamics of the song. Once you get the 'head' of the piece, the statement, and if its got a groove, something that gets you going, and then the main melody has a beginning, middle, end, makes some sort of sense, says something memorable, goes thru some kinda dynamic range, builds up, something, then i'm sold. Hip phrases, interwoven with stellar chops and technique laid on top of a cool riff, groove, whatever, it's gotta say something, its gotta be thought out, not random bull$#!t. Thats what seperates a great instrumental from a $#!t demo.
IMHO....

 

[anomaly]

I don't buy much instrumental stuff, but generally it's the "tunes".

 

[trey85stang]

I dont buy instrumentals.

 

[Stratboy151]

I dont buy instrumentals.

well you better buy mine damnit!