Pointless Revisions?

[Art Munson]

Kind of curious. Are the initials of the library E.M.? If so than typical for him.

[xev]

No, those are not the initials of this library 🙂
Your answer makes me think this is not uncommon. Have you encountered this situation often before?

[Art Munson]

Not unusual to ask for revisions but some take it to extremes. In the case I was referring to, they took to extremes.

[guscave]

I agree with Art. I had to stop working with one library because their request for changes were just taking way too much of my time. It started to get in the way of my work with other libraries.

[Denbo_17]

Art if that is B.K at E.M. in CA ? Yes can be many Rev’s…

[boinkeee2000]

had an issue with a lib where its not unusual to go to a 3rd rev…1 is fine, 2 is pushing it…whats frustrating is how each rev would open a new issue for them, or when they didnt catch something on the previous theyd tack it on the next one (which i feel is more a mood thing on their end)…worst part is when they reject it out of all that…backed out at 2nd rev on a few occasions and taken the track somewhere else (mind you these are excl briefs with no upfronts)

nowadays im happier when a lib rejects my track from the get go haha!

[Pat]

That was the first thing that came to my mind Art. lol

[Art Munson]

Art if that is B.K at E.M. in CA ? Yes can be many Rev’s…

😉

[guscave]

Looks like we’ve all had the same experience with the same library.. 😉

[NY Composer]

Yeah Guys,

I thought the same thing x3, E.M.

Anyway if it were me, I would politely ask which synth has the fresh sounds they prefer. Another pont. They could mean that they hear the same patch often, meaning “Outdated”. Perhaps you can tweak your favorite patches with some effects. Many times, some synths have too much effects on one patch and you can adjust the parameters. You may also double the lead, pad, etc, using two patches at the same time.

Funny. When Stranger Things was hot, many libs were using that show for examples on their briefs. All 80’s analogue synths. Go figure.

[BEATSLINGER]

LOLOL!! I got put on that mailing list when I first joined MLR.

Got sent a “Request” and heard the examples they sent me.

I sent in a couple of things, and got asked to revise the drums. Got a “Green Light”. But after looking into them, and their small Market-share. It just didn’t seem like a move for me.

Great to do research, and see who’s really making moves. Wish I would have been avidly using the “Access Music Libraries” and doing more research when I first got into this forum. “I found out late about a couple Cemeteries posing as viable Music Outlets”…

[xev]

Thanks for the responses

@NY Composer – in this case by “outdated” they meant “80s or 90s sounding”, as they told me this directly, including the brief where they sent 80s sounding synths as reference tracks 🙂

I have found this particular library seems to really like shimmer reverb/crystal delay type sounds (in my opinion this sounds more outdated than 80s analog synths – to each his own I guess…)

[Tim]

I have worked with E.M. for years….
Great library….. tons of placements.
And YES I have done up to 12 revisions on some tracks.. usually 3 – 5
But in the end they all sounded much better.

[Tim-b]

Haha, like many here E.M. also immediately came to mind! But usually mine got greenlit after the first revision only occasionally I had to do a second and maybe a 3rd revision. They have gotten me some OK placements over the years though.

(Btw, I’m a different Tim than the one above me!)

[StevenOBrien]

If we’re talking about the same library, I once got asked to change _all_ of the major chords in a future bass track to minor chords because the track wasn’t sounding dark enough. When that wasn’t enough, it was suggested: “Hmm, we might have to make them diminished chords then”.

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