You may or may not have noticed that my song output is rather low
which in return also means that most of my songs are quite old.

For quite a while I had the idea of re-recording a selection of my
songs and releasing them as an album. Problem was, that I had
no idea about what level of professionalism I wanted to archive
and what level I'd even be "able" to archive to make it worth
the effort. Would I want to book studio time and record those
songs in a studio? Would that actually improve the result? Or
would I end up with the same thing just... prettier but not better?
Should I hire people who can actually play their instrument?
Would I really want to spend that much money on songs that
were just a re-release of an already existing song? Would I
ever get that money back and if not, would I be ok with having
spent that money on something like this? Would this bring me
happiness to know that I spent that money on this? Would it
be worth it?

The short most likely answer is....no.

The long answer is:
From the perspective of wanting to earn money with your
music, it's a really bad idea anyway so unless I'm doing it for
myself, it's not worth it. From the perspective of attracting
listeners? Hmmm also not very likely, I mean, those listeners
who these songs "didn't" reach, those won't be reached now
either since the songs didn't really change. They've just been
polished. So unless those people were audio engineers who
get off on production quality...it's just not gonna happen.

But if I'm being honest, I have no intentions to make money
with my music. If people toss me a few coins because they
like what I do or think I'm a cool dude or want to support
me or they want to see me drown and suffocate in money,
I won't say no except for the suffocating part...I'd rather be
alive than dead, thank you. '>.> The support is very much
appreciated but I won't make music something I'm dependant
on no matter how much I enjoy making music.

So if spending tons of money on polishing my music isn't
the wisest approach, then what "can" I do? In short, grow!
Not my fanbase but myself, learn, find likeminded people,
hone your skills, enjoy what you do. Find people to critique
your work and use it to improve. Getting constructive
criticism from people who actually know a thing or two
about what they do is worth a whole lot more than the
money you could spend on letting other people do the
work for you. Also it's a lot more satisfying and fun. =)

Also, getting in contact with other musicians inspires me
to improve my craft. For example am I currently going
through an old project of mine to see what I can improve
and let me tell ya that it's a lot! How this song even reached
the final stadium in this state is beyond me, but maybe
back then I didn't know any better or couldn't do any
better. After 8 years I look at this and see tons of room
for improvements.

As an example: I re-recorded certain sections to tighten
them up or fix small playing errors that I left in, or in some
areas I would even play something entirely different in
order to leave other instruments some space to breathe
and not burry them underneath other stuff. That way I
give every instrument their moment to shine in the
arrangement. Another thing I'll take another shot at,
is re-recording some vocals because some of them are
just plain awful and deserver redoing.

tl:dr
But yeah, I'mma re-record and fix shit on one of my
songs to see how much improvement there is to be
had and then we'll see about the rest of the songs.

If I can get myself to do that for all those songs that
I've released and that are in my gallery right now,
I could even try to release them as a song collection
of remastered pieces on my bandcamp account.
Who knows? ;)


Thanks for reading.