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Great River is a preamp I have been looking at. How do you like the AT 4050?
ChuckMottParticipantNice to be able to say after a somewhat disappointing year in 2017, my first quarter ascap check is about double what I earned all last year. No statement yet, but the funds made it to my account this a.m apparently. My track count is about 190 so far.
ChuckMottParticipantI agree, great sound, definitely out of the box thinking, quite a bit so, which may benefit you, or stand in your way as far as licensing, only one way to find out…
ChuckMottParticipantRegarding using real instruments, I can’t think of one instrument that I thought sounded better in VST form over the real thing. Because I have the space and have always enjoyed tinkering on it, I would also consider buying an upright piano. Synths come closet, in my opinion, But I’m not even that much of a a synth guy but the Dave Smith Prophet makes me drool on myself. Personally I think even a mic’d guitar amp, or from what I hear, something like good reactive load from a real guitar amp into some IR’s justs pees all over amp sims. That said, placements I’ve had were all amp sims, but I’ve recently gone back to micing.
ChuckMottParticipantBut back to the discussion other folks were having….I don’t feel like some of us who came in later are getting any benefit from the “you are doing it wrong” crowd, other then maybe hear you are doing it wrong….are there still libraries that are exclusive that pay these big upfront fees? When I started doing this here on MLR five years ago, I went through library on here to pick the libraries I did. Maybe I should doing this again to uncover these gems?….
I am not this guy….less then a decade to go to retire…but would concrete advice would you give the guy who says, for example…”sink or swim, I am quitting my day job after this year and focus on writing production music”… besides, just “Get upfront money “….
ChuckMottParticipantFor what it’s worth, said library was also quick to work with me and let me know they would remove my music from the content i.d. system, which was what they meant by close my account. Sometimes choice of words is everything :)…
ChuckMottParticipantO.K. let me redirect this conversation a bit. A library I have been in for awhile apparently listed that I now have 719 tracks now entered into the content i.d. system. When I wrote them and asked that how that could be since I never opted in and all my tracks were nonexclusive, let’s just say the response was less then satisfactory, ending with the customer service rep saying they would close my account. I wrote back the customer service rep and said please do not close my account, what I am asking is for my music not to be entered into the content i.d. system. So I am now waiting to hear back after a third email. Obviously this won’t effect exclusive tracks I have elsewhere but I am now hesitant to send these tracks anywhere else.
ChuckMottParticipantI thought content ID dealt only in exclusive tracks, per their rules? Either way, I agree with Michael, if you are going to enter them into content i.d. , i.e. through AS, might as well make them exclusive to avoid problems down the road. I would actually (in all seriousness) would like to hear from people who said that it turned out to be worth their while to enter their tracks into content i.d. ( as i , I don’t know, pick a number, mycontent i.d. track made in the ball park of x amount of dollars).
ChuckMottParticipantWith it being as perfectly synced as it is, makes me wonder if it is a custom track written specifically for the commercial?
ChuckMottParticipantNo I wouldn’t put much stock in pt’s view system either. But I did not that 20 views in P5 is the sweet spot for me, I.e. I don’t have anything there that says it has 20 or more views that hasn’t sold at least once. I don’t know if those views popped up after the fact though.
ChuckMottParticipantThere is a Loar mandolin at the local guitar center that I am gassing over, especially considering the price ($300). I own a Gretsch New Yorker I spent $200 on this Loar is much nicer sounding and more playaable. I was also pretty impressed with the recording king banjo I played there, also inexpensive.
Obviously strings and horns I would need to buy sampled, and I also use addictive drums and keys. I prefer to buy real instruments when I can.
ChuckMottParticipantJust putting this out there, 8 dio is giving away their adagietto strings today if you make a $99 purchase.
ChuckMottParticipantCongratulations on the first sale. Nice tone from the guitar! I’m glad you mic’d also.
December 2, 2017 at 6:04 am in reply to: Another infringement lawsuit, this time over "Let It Go." #28948ChuckMottParticipantWhat similar instrumentation? One is orchestral, one is a strum along guitar song. HArd to write a song in a straight major, minor keys that doesn’t bare some similarity to some other song some guy somewhere in the world has written. Pretty soon the Chuck Berry estate is going to be suing every rock guitar song that used double stops in their music.
Looks like a similar chord structure to about 50,000,000 other songs, yet the production/performance made it sound fresh , and of course perfect for the scene.
https://www.e-chords.com/chords/frozen/let-it-go
Does anyone have a patent on the key of G? Cause if not….
ChuckMottParticipantAs far s “the same gear everyone else uses” guitar players have been playing Fender guitars through Fender amps for years, Gibson through MArshalls, nothing much has changed there. Goes back to “it’s the artist, not the gear”.
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