My band wants to record an album...

My band wants to record an album...?  Have you ever asked yourself that question?  Ok so you want to be the next pop idol and need a demo CD to send to record company execs and TV producers, or maybe you're a working singer/entertainer who would like to produce an album to sell at your gigs.   Either way, you probably think that the only way to make a professional sounding recording is to spend fortunes hiring a large, state-of-the-art recording studio?  Well...you'd be wrong!  Using your backing tracks, you can make an album at home at a fraction of the cost that a recording studio will charge you.  Recording studios are pricey.  You can bet that a three song demo will usually end up costing you in the region of $100 to $200, and a full album can cost anything from $500 to well over $1,000 and upwards depending on the length of time you take to make the recording (and these figures are for the cheapest recording studios - a larger city center studio will charge much more)!  So instead of spending $1,000's to record 1 album of say 12 songs, what if you could record twice that amount - 2 albums with 15 songs on each (30 songs)...for half that price?  OK, let's take it one step further...What if you could record as many albums, and as many demos, as you wanted for a one-off price of $500. Sounds interesting?  By investing around in a stand-alone hard-disk recording machine, you can produce as many professional, studio quality recordings as you want in the comfort of your own home, with even the most basic recording knowledge and skills.  The results will be every bit as good as you can expect from recordings made in a purpose built recording studio (probably even better, because no-one knows your own sound like you do). Just think - no more "racing against the clock", trying to squeeze as much recording in to a tight recording studio schedule. No more watching your bill rise up and up by the hour like a waiting Taxi. No more being put under pressure to lay down that perfect vocal work within a severely limited period of time. No more being lied to by studio engineers who can't wait to get rid of you to get the next person in who tell you that the vocal is fine when you know that it's still not right and needs another couple of hours work on it...NO MORE!  Now, does that help answer the "My band wants to record an album...? "question.