Should I Burn My Own CD’s or Use A Pressing Plant?

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Well it really depends on your budget and what your overall aim is. A lot of the time, pressing up your product through a pressing plant will give your product a more professional look as they can include all the extras, such as printing and a plastic wrap. They also offer all-in-one solutions, meaning you can send off your specifications and any required material, and they’ll send you back a finished product. This is ideal if you haven’t got the time or resources to print and copy all the CDs yourself.

While it may be longer to do, copying your own CDs can save money however, as if you’ve a home computer you can copy all the CDs from that at no extra cost.

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How Many Copies Of My Mixtape, Album Or Single Should I Make?

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Many people think the best idea is to initially press up 1000 units (CD, vinyl etc) and sell them all. Many people end up with 900 plus units stored under their bed till they decide to give them out for free. It’s not as easy to sell units as many people think.

Unless you’ve built up a big name for yourself and have a proven track record of selling high amounts of CDs I suggest you start by pressing up a test batch of your new CD or vinyl, a good amount being 100. Now you may think you can do much more then this, but if you can what’s the harm in pressing up 100 at first? Then if they sell as fast and well as you expected, press up another 100 or 1000 (Dependent on how well the first batch sold) and try to sell those too. It’s just a way of being safe, no one wants to splash out money and not be able to recoup it.

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Get FREE Graphic Designs For Your Single, Album Or Mixtape!

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If you can’t design your own art but don’t have the money to pay for someone to design for you, don’t worry, there is still hope. One way of getting free graphic design is to ask any designer friends you may have to do you some. Depending on your relationship with them, they may do you a one off piece, or a whole series of free graphic design for your project.

If however you don’t know any designers, you can always find some online. There are many up and coming designers who would be willing to do free graphic design for you in exchange for getting their work seen. These designers can be found of forums, social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, and via search engines.

When you approach someone to do you free design work, always make clear the benefit of them helping you with your project (Their work will be seen in shops, you will be digitally distributing the product to thousands of people, or whatever the case). DON’T however over hype how far you’ll be pushing your project, if you do and you fail to deliver, most likely you won’t be getting help from that designer again. It is often best to be honest (Even if you aren’t expecting to get your project that far) and let the designer make their own mind up about whether or not they’ll do free graphic design for you. If they like you and need to build up their portfolio, there’s still a good chance they’ll work with you.

One downside of getting free graphic design though is you can’t get everything your way. Some of these up-and-coming designers won’t have all the skills and knowledge a professional graphic designer will have, so may not be able to do everything you want. If this is the case you also won’t be able to complain that much as you’re not paying them for their services. Also as they’re not being paid, some graphic designers will work a lot slower and not to a set time line, as they may be focusing more on paid work or other non related priorities. Having said that, there are some very talented up and coming designers out there and it’s worth trying to get free graphic design from these up and coming designers.

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Designing Artwork For My Mixtape, Single Or Album

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One way to get art for your project is to do it yourself. This however is not recommended if you don’t have any previous knowledge in this field and / or don’t know how to use a graphics design program such as Photoshop (Or free graphic design software such as GimPhoto).

If you do however, this is the cheapest way to go about it and potentially the best, as you will have full creative control. You can try out as many ideas as you want and tweak it till you get it just right.

Using free graphic design software can well will of course help keep down costs, as programs such as GimPhoto and Paint.net can be downloaded and used for free. While Adobe Photoshop it more expensive, it’s currently seen as the best graphic design software around.

Having said that, if you don’t know how to use graphic design software and aren’t willing to put the time in to learn, there’s not much point even if you can get free graphic design software. In that case it’d be better to use a graphic designer.

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What Should I Make – Single, Album or Mixtape??

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The type of product you put out can affect the time you spend on each project, how you are received, the cost, and generally everything else. Here are the pros and cons of releasing a single, album and mixtape:

 

Singles Pros:

• Releasing a single can be very quick compared to the other two options as you don’t have to spend loads of time writing and recording 15 or so tracks.
• It’s a lot cheaper as you only spending a fraction of time in the recording booth.
• You can get quick feedback, and any mistakes can be rectified in the next project.
• Singles can be used to test the waters for how well you could potentially do with say an album.

Single Cons:

• People only get to see one side of you as you haven’t got other tracks to show what else you can do (Unless there’s bonus tracks that come with the single).
• You’ll normally have to follow up with another project quickly to stay fresh in people’s minds.
• It’s hit and miss, pick the wrong single and you will get ignored or receive negative press (The first being the better of two bads as it’s easier to bounce back from. Receiving bad press can be very hard to come back from).

Album Pros:

• People generally take the idea of an album more seriously than a mixtape.
• As an album is meant to be all your own material (Rather than using beats and vocals you haven’t got permission to use), you can make money from royalties when your tune is played on legal radio and TV etc.
• People get to see many sides of you as you’ll have different types of tunes on there. If they don’t like one track you get to try and impress them with another one.

Album Cons:

• It’s a lot more expensive and time consuming then putting out a single.
• If your album doesn’t do well you can receive negative press which could tarnish your image. If you release a poor first album, people may not even bother to listen out for your second one, even if it is good.
• Unlike mixtapes all your instrumentals have to be original, so there’s no using other people’s beats. This can take time finding the right backing track, finding the right producer to work with, or making your own beats if you produce or play your own instruments.

Mixtape Pros:

• It is generally seen as being ok to use other people’s beat and sampled vocals on your mixtape, as the main aim isn’t generally to get rich off it, but instead promote your music.
• Using instrumentals other people have already made big tunes with can help people warm to your music quicker. Having a familiar backing track means you have something people already like in your tune, and are more likely to listen to your vocals.
• Mixtapes can be a good way of building your fan base and get your name around before your ‘big release’.
• You can tap into a different market, a ‘underground’ scene that only buys material that isn’t in mainstream shops and is still seen to be ‘cool’.

 

Mixtape Cons:

• People have a habit of thinking ‘It’s just a mixtape, it doesn’t matter if I don’t put as much effort into it’. DON’T MAKE THAT MISTAKE! At the end of the day, what you put out will represent your music, and people will always judge you on that.
• If you do use other people’s beats or vocals, you can’t claim royalties on your tunes as you don’t own the full copyright. This means you won’t get paid if you tune gets played on legal radio or TV.
• Some people don’t take mixtapes seriously due to there being a lot of poor ones out there (See point one of ‘mixtape cons’ for one of the main reason why).

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