[Art Munson]

I’ve had Addictive Drums for a few years and like it a lot. They’ve kept adding and updating over the years so I think the company will be around awhile.

[Art Munson]

Welcome aboard Mlmusic.

FWIW here is my experience. I’ve been doing this about 7 years and I watched my PRO income slowly build to the point that my most recent BMI quarterly check was low five figures. There are plenty of other composers that do much better than that. I get anywhere from 10 to 20 uses a day (some of those are repeats), generally cable with a few major networks. I’m guessing there are a few hundred tracks out there earning those dollars.

BTW that does not include any license fees, not many but an additional $2k last year.

[Art Munson]

No report shows up at my BMI page,

Hmmm, I would think they would all be up at once but don’t know for sure. Here’s hoping something shows up for you Ulla!

[Art Munson]

Greg, thanks for your reply.

The music is composed and produced by me. I own the copyright and master recording rights, so I would be giving them my music for use. And yes, the question is how much should I charge them?

Thanks

[Art Munson]

I am not a grammar Nazi, but something that is unreadable would not give me confidence in working with someone.

Sometimes I feel like I want to be a grammar cop. I never was the brightest bulb in English, grammar and spelling classes but some of the stuff I see really makes me cringe.

[Art Munson]

Freakin’ hilarious! That made my whole day MichaelL!

[Art Munson]

I have triple backups of everything and rotate one of those offsite to a safe deposit box. I also have all of my mixes backed up (in the cloud) to my Amazon S3 account.

Amazon has a service where you can send them a drive if you have a large amount of data that would be too slow for Internet backup. I’m going to send them all of my DAW project files and they will also be transferred to my S3 account. Amazon accounts are very affordable.

[Art Munson]

Sorry – That should say “Single-Use” in the header.

Fixed it

[Art Munson]

you can go a long way with Logic’s plug ins… but API and Maserati are a couple of steps further…best thing is to try them out yourselves, you can download an evaluation copy I think

[Art Munson]

Not wanting to make any advertisment for waves but the Kramer+Maserati bundle for  $199 is a killer 🙂

 

[Art Munson]

I think this has been discussed enough and will close the topic.

Let’s leave it at this. I stand by my original contention that PPC does not serve AS or it’s composers well. MichaelL and some others do not agree.

[Art Munson]

MichaelL The problem with #tag’s analysis is that he/she assumes AudioSparx and DeWolfe serve the same clientele. AudioSparx clients aren’t just looking for music, they are looking for music with a perpetual license. They aren’t going to run to DeWolfe because it’s “such a pleasure to listen to their catalog.”  Likewise, the editor, whose employer is paying a hefty annual blanket fee to DeWolfe, isn’t likely to buy music from AudioSparx.

 

I was talking about the reasons why you spend more or less time on a library site, not something else. But Michael, we do actually agree on this. I said sales should be only driven by quality and price point. Different budgets different clientele.

My main problem is that you can’t change the game’s rules while the game has already begun, without offering – at least – the chance for the players to opt out.

In my opinion PPC is not acceptable. Why should I be forced to honour an agreement placed when the rules where different?

[Art Munson]

“I don’t see why everybody is so up in arms over the “quality” of songs.”

“Everybody” is not up in arms over the quality of the music on AS.

I sense a bit of hostility towards AudioSparx and that isn’t called for. They are just one business out of many that composers can use. Publicly trashing a company is unprofessional and unfair.

There is no real hostility towards AS and I don’t see it as trashing them because we don’t agree with PPC. I think you will find many of us have stated we will continue to work with AS and have the utmost respect for Barbie and Lee.

Please don’t look for issues that aren’t there and BTW some of us don’t hide behind “Anonymous” as a user name.

[Art Munson]

probably not that different from your DAW’s EQ…

there are some good deals on waves.com , but you’ll have to splash a little bit more 🙂

[Art Munson]

MichaelL With AS, I think the needle-in-a-haysrack factor is one issue. The other big issue is merely being another face in the crowd. If someone searches for hip hop “Jingle Bells” and 50 hip hop  versions of Jingle Bells pop up, what can you do? What are the chances that the buyer is going to listen to more than a few versions before  picking one?

I see it in a different way: you search for hip hop ‘Jingle Bells’ and in return you get 50 track. You listen to the first 10 and they’re all terrible (quality control leaves a lot to be desired on AS). You (buyer) quickly loose interest and being short on time and cash pick one of the first 10 or move elsewhere.

By contrast if you go somewhere like Dewolfe, you can spend there hours flicking through their catalog. Why? It’s a much more enjoyable experience… we all like to listen to well produced music.

Do you really need 10 bad Jingle Bells? Less tracks better quality, no need (for the buyer) of any PPC scheme.
Only quality and price point should drive sales.

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