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Years later, I’ve still never seen any back end from Yes. I haven’t picked up a lot of placements, maybe 5 or so, but no money.
For me it’s a couple of days behind, which I’d common. My most recent was early Sunday am (over 48 hours ago), but I occasionally have empty spells too.
could you explain what a “survey payout” is?
I tried to provide links but they were blocked
https://ascap.com/help/royalties-and-payment/payment/surveys
the winning lottery tickets are here:
https://ascap.com/help/royalties-and-payment/payment/cablesurveysGoogle is your friend
My payout was $1K more than I would have expected. As predicted above, I had two ASCAP Survey payouts totaling over $1,700. Three 0:28 weekend morning performances on WGN netted $1,300, the other one was about $400. Those probably would have paid about a dollar without the survey hit.
The Survey is great when you get it, but it’s also infuriating when you go years without hitting that very random lottery.
I hope all you ASCAP’rs did well.
Cheers!Mine hit the bank yesterday. It was my second best payout ever so I expect I’ll see I got lucky on the survey this time. It’s been a while since the survey gods have smiled upon me. The statements should be out by mid day today.
Same here. It looks like they cleaned up a lot of duplicate cue sheets due to typos, etc. At a glance there are many missing episodes for me. I’ll give it a few days before I compare it to my records.
Here is a direct quote regarding stems from a film industry professional:
Beware of the distinction between stems in this context—premixes made at the dub by the dubbing mixer—and music stems. You can think of music stems as premixes made by the score mixer rather than on the dubbing stage. Sometimes the word “stems” overlaps and there is momentary confusion about the meaning.
All the more reason to ask the library what they want.
So in that case when submitting say an acoustic pop track to a library requesting cutdowns and stems, good practice might be to submit:
I interpret “cutdowns and stems” as cutdowns (:30, :15, Sting) and alternate mixes (No Lead, Bed, Drums and Bass). If it were me, I would simply ask the library to tell me exactly what they want.
“Dear A&R,
The definition of a stem in open to interpretation across this industry. Would you like a pre-master mix plus stems that combine to equal it, or would you prefer mastered stems treated as alternate mixes?”PAMMusic, I think there is a very good chance the A&R will not know the answer to that question without asking around the office or they may even need to call a few clients to find the answer.
I would expect $0.00 from MLBTV.
I’m currently taking the Berklee Online course “Audio/Music Production for Visual Media” and stems was a recent topic. Here is the take from a top industry film score mixer (not final dubbing mixer). All stems MUST combine at fader unity to be equal to the final mix. The point being the dubbing mixer has the option to quickly and easily edit parts of the mix that may be competing with dialog, rather than heavy handedly turning down the entire mix. Every stem must also be autonomous, with no effects bleed etc.
This of course means there can be no two bus processing on the final mix, it is pre master.
Based on this “new information,” I consider stems and alt mixes as separate beasts. Moving forward I will continue to master my alternate mixes the same as the main track. If stems are requested, Stem01 will be the full, unmastered mix and the rest of the stems will sum at unity to exactly match Stem01.A “track” on Tunesat has a size limit of 200 MB. I’ll let you figure out the rest
😉Hey Pat,
This happened to me a few years ago. Try this:
Make a document like this“PAT’S TRACK”
Music composed by PAT
Copyright 20XX
This music should never cause a YouTube copyright infringement claim.It was Non-Exclusively licensed by BAD GUY Productions, LLC from MUSIC LIBRARY X for use in the show BAD GUYS VIDEO.
No person or entity other than myself own any rights to this music and therefore may not claim copyright infringement.
Make it into a jpg file and make a video with your track playing in the background. Upload it to YouTube. When it gets flagged, dispute it and provide them the proof that you are the sole rights holder. They should then remove anyone else’s right claim. That’s how I did it a few years back. There were a lot of dead ends before I got it done. There’s a thread about is somewhere on MLR.
I had a couple new ones this week. The series non-series filter hasn’t worked for a while either