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From: malachi on 20 Apr 2008 22:37
So I attended a pitch to publisher nite at NSAI in Nashville last week.
This is an event where about ninety neurotic aspiring songwriters cram into
the live room at the NSAI studio on Music Row and get to play a verse and a
chorus for a big shot publisher.

I took a demo I did in Reaper which I self produced. I was curious to hear
how it stacked up sound quality and production wise to the other demos being
played. I didn't really expect the publisher to take my song...

Well, he didn't. In fact, he didn't take anyone elses' either. But I got
to hear a bunch of demos cut by the various N-ville demo studios.

My little Reaper demo stood up production-wise to demos that I know for sure
cost hundreds of dollars from the big boys. The publisher passed on my
song, but complimented my demo.

I'm officially sold on Reaper now.

malachi


From: Nil on 20 Apr 2008 23:08
On 20 Apr 2008, "malachi" <junk(a)trentes.com> wrote in
cakewalk.audio:

> My little Reaper demo stood up production-wise to demos that I
> know for sure cost hundreds of dollars from the big boys. The
> publisher passed on my song, but complimented my demo.
>
> I'm officially sold on Reaper now.

Do you really give much credit to Reaper for that? Seems to me it's
more a result of your good recording and mastering skills, and that any
competent recording program could have done just as well.
From: polymod on 21 Apr 2008 06:58

"Nil" <rednoise+news(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
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> On 20 Apr 2008, "malachi" <junk(a)trentes.com> wrote in
> cakewalk.audio:
>
> > My little Reaper demo stood up production-wise to demos that I
> > know for sure cost hundreds of dollars from the big boys. The
> > publisher passed on my song, but complimented my demo.
> >
> > I'm officially sold on Reaper now.
>
> Do you really give much credit to Reaper for that? Seems to me it's
> more a result of your good recording and mastering skills, and that any
> competent recording program could have done just as well.

Agreed.
It's the carpenter....not the tools.

Poly


From: malachi on 21 Apr 2008 08:41

"polymod" <polymod(a)optonline.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Nil" <rednoise+news(a)REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns9A86EB643D33Anilch1(a)216.196.97.136...
>> On 20 Apr 2008, "malachi" <junk(a)trentes.com> wrote in
>> cakewalk.audio:
>>
>> > My little Reaper demo stood up production-wise to demos that I
>> > know for sure cost hundreds of dollars from the big boys. The
>> > publisher passed on my song, but complimented my demo.
>> >
>> > I'm officially sold on Reaper now.
>>
>> Do you really give much credit to Reaper for that? Seems to me it's
>> more a result of your good recording and mastering skills, and that any
>> competent recording program could have done just as well.
>
> Agreed.
> It's the carpenter....not the tools.
>
> Poly
>
Granted, but from my perspective, my choice is to use a tool that does a
good job at an expense of $700 versus a tool that does the same good job (I
would argue better, but whatever) at an expense of $50.

Not to mention annual expensive upgrades versus weekly updates that are
included in the original license.

Sorry if I sound like a guy passing out leaflets on a street corner. It's
just that I've been messing with one DAW package after another since 1999
and this is the first one that works well enough that I spend more time
actually recording music instead of tweaking my system to try to get it to
work correctly.

I'm finding that if I don't have to worry about crashes, system bog downs,
pops and clicks, dropouts, unexpected editing results and so on, that I'm
more confident about trying more complex and adventurous production
techniques and having them turn out the way I heard 'em in my head.

m


From: Sue Morton on 21 Apr 2008 08:48
I hear ya on that one. I'm so tired of fighting the software.
Unfortunately Reaper is in that same boat for me, I still have crashes and
performance problems in areas where they don't exist with Sonar :-(
{sigh}.

And don't forget, if you sell that song you may owe the Reaper folks $175
upgrade fee :-) Still a bargain if it does the job for you!
--
Sue Morton

malachi wrote:
> Granted, but from my perspective, my choice is to use a tool that
> does a good job at an expense of $700 versus a tool that does the
> same good job (I would argue better, but whatever) at an expense of
> $50.
> Not to mention annual expensive upgrades versus weekly updates that
> are included in the original license.
>
> Sorry if I sound like a guy passing out leaflets on a street corner. It's
> just that I've been messing with one DAW package after another
> since 1999 and this is the first one that works well enough that I
> spend more time actually recording music instead of tweaking my
> system to try to get it to work correctly.
>
> I'm finding that if I don't have to worry about crashes, system bog
> downs, pops and clicks, dropouts, unexpected editing results and so
> on, that I'm more confident about trying more complex and adventurous
> production techniques and having them turn out the way I heard 'em in
> my head.
> m


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