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Guitars are expensive, you don't already have them, plus you need an amp. Then you either need to convince your friends to buy instruments and form a band (or j

by dcwca 10y ago

Guitars are expensive, you don't already have them, plus you need an amp. Then you either need to convince your friends to buy instruments and form a band (or join one), or buy a bunch of expensive recording equipment because recording drums and guitar well is difficult (and did I mention expensive?). Kids already have computers and with a cheap USB mic can make non-rock music that is ready to be released on the radio in their bedroom for $200.

k-mcgrady 10y ago
Completely disagree. You can get a guitar+amp starter package for less than $200. That's all you need to jam with some friends in a garage. Then start gigging with other friends bands - you don't need to record anything. But if you want to record you don't need expensive equipment. I recorded my first band with Cubase on a shitty home build tower PC. I had no audio interface. I had a headphone splitter than I plugged two mics from a 'sing star' (rock band for singing) PS2 game into and used those to mic the bass drum and throw one over a rafter in the garage as an overhead mic. Quality obviously wasn't great but listening back now it's actually good enough and if I had the mixing experience I do now could be a whole lot better. And I think it's that last point that's key. If you want to make electronic music you need a DAW with decent VST's (so Logic at £199.99 is your best value) - then you need to spent a long time learning how to write, how to mix, master, sound design. As someone who has been in bands and produces electronic music the latter is much more difficult to get started in. You can get with two other friends in a garage, learn three chords on a guitar and start writing songs or playing covers of other songs and have a hell of a lot of fun. Electronic music is time consuming to create, requires a much steeper learning curve before you can create anything good, and it's pretty solitary.

by dcwca 10y ago

k-mcgrady 10y ago

Completely disagree. You can get a guitar+amp starter package for less than $200. That's all you need to jam with some friends in a garage. Then start gigging with other friends bands - you don't need to record anything. But if you want to record you don't need expensive equipment. I recorded my first band with Cubase on a shitty home build tower PC. I had no audio interface. I had a headphone splitter than I plugged two mics from a 'sing star' (rock band for singing) PS2 game into and used those to mic the bass drum and throw one over a rafter in the garage as an overhead mic. Quality obviously wasn't great but listening back now it's actually good enough and if I had the mixing experience I do now could be a whole lot better. And I think it's that last point that's key. If you want to make electronic music you need a DAW with decent VST's (so Logic at £199.99 is your best value) - then you need to spent a long time learning how to write, how to mix, master, sound design. As someone who has been in bands and produces electronic music the latter is much more difficult to get started in. You can get with two other friends in a garage, learn three chords on a guitar and start writing songs or playing covers of other songs and have a hell of a lot of fun. Electronic music is time consuming to create, requires a much steeper learning curve before you can create anything good, and it's pretty solitary.