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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.

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Freakin’ hilarious! That made my whole day MichaelL!

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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.

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

Fixed it

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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

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

 

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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.

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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?

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“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 🙂

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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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It could be that your genres just sell better in other libraries.

That’s true for one of the libraries I’m in but for a couple of others the genres that sell are all over the map.

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i’ve tweaked the metadata, changed categories and everything else you could imagine to get more attention there…i’m in year 4 w/them and read everything in the knowledge base

Hey Jay, your situation is similar to mine. I know I could do more at AS but I do tweak the metadata, change categories, listen to the top sellers, upload new tracks, etc. It’s hard to stay engaged with AS when after a few years and over 600 tracks (includes alts) it amounts to about $115 per month. This is way below what I get from other RF sites and a miniscule percentage of my PRO monies.

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Jay – i’ll probably just leave my sound effects there and take my music out if this keeps up – Jay

Well as far as I inderstood it you can’t just take stuff out from AS before a 5 year period, so Jay plese let us know about your progress with that, as I’m sure others here are feeling the same way as you about leaving tracks on there ,now that PPC is on…

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I know what you’re talking about , some tracks you just want to keep.

I have 50+ tracks signed with exclusive libriaries (with no reverse clause), some of them have performed well some not. A lot depends on who you are dealing with, and how big is the publisher/library.

But keep in mind that some non exclusive have a 5 year retention clause, so if in the meantime you find  great exclusive deal for your track, you wont be able to bring it home.

Perhaps hold on your track a little longer and see if the right chance comes along…but not too long to keep it forever in your drawers 🙂

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