So what is a demo recording and how does it compare to a full production? Basically, a demo is used to get the core of a song down to show its potential. It’s normally a stripped down version of a full production. It can be as basic as only having a piano and a voice where as the same song fully produced may have dozens and often times hundreds of tracks such as drums, synths, guitars, bass, strings and back vocals. Way less hours are put into a demo which also means you can get away with putting them together at quite a low cost. They may be basic but they are an absolutely necessary part of every project.

Full productions drive the costs way up. Not every song written for a project makes the ‘final cut’ or should be invested in further. Demos are a great way to build material and potential songs for the project. You can then take a step back and listen to a few demos before going full fledged into a full production. If at the demo stage, the song isn’t cutting it, it’s probably not worth going further. If a demo is grabbing attention, those are the tracks worth going further with. At that point, it’s time to possibly going into a full production.

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