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Thanks, This would be all new music specifically for electronic sale. None of my library stuff.

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For ascap it also depends on what time of day it played. One of my 10 second cues earned $1.75 for a single prime time airing. Another 10 second cue earned .64 for a single night time airing.

#getrichquick

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You’re rewards will be applied in the afterlife! 🙂

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Yes, I do that also.

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I listen to them some times. When converting from my native 44.1 wav files to 48 aif, I don’t listen to them.

When converting to mp3s I do, but not always. Hopefully there have been no problems!

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Converting to different file formats? I use switch sound converter.

http://www.nch.com.au/switch/

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@overdub, I wasn’t aware the free account gets you 50 detections every month. If so, that’s super cool.

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I think it may be a parody website. I hope so!

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This sounds like jp. Is that the library? Concerning if it is since composers are not allowed access to the client front end.

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Quoted for emphasis!

Currently in process with a number of cue sheet issues with BMI. From what I know of others who have gone through this is that it’s a long, long process. Once again patience and persistence.

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I have had success both contacting the production company directly and working with the library as an intermediary. I had zero success working with ascap.

In the end, the $ wasn’t there to justify my tunesat subscription, so I cancelled it.

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I also work a full time job and spend various amounts of time per month making music. It’s cheap and easy to make quality recordings at home. That has allowed for an influx of people like me to saturate the market with music of various quality.

In a way, that influx has made the lower end (like cable tv background cues) into a commodity. “A” level cues aren’t needed for 20 seconds on Duck Dynasty why uncle Si tells us what “rule #1 is Jack”. 🙂

My first full year of distributions was last year and I made about $1,000. All my $ came from back end PRO payments. I haven’t gotten any front end monies. I use that $ to buy amps, guitars and music software.

I can see why some professions may see that a ruining the business. Take my experience and multiply that by the 10’s of thousands of other new composers and that adds up to a lot of money. It certainly has taken away a portion of the revenue stream that in decades past would have been all theirs.

In the past year, or so, that has changed, and some have drawn a line in the sand that waffles between, “you amateurs are ruining the business, and/or you amateurs are wasting your time and we “real pros” have nothing to worry about.” With the exception of a few trolls, there was a general sense of “we.” Now, too often it’s “us” and “them”…”pros” and “amateurs.” I think that’s sad.

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28k sounds good to me, but I don’t have much experience in this business. I’m curious to hear what some of the vets think.

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Thanks for the info. Looking forward to the website mentioned. I use headphones for mixing. Currently hd280’s. The problem with them the lack of bass. Initially I would overcompensate to make my tracks sound good on the hd280’s. I found out fast that caused too much bass. I have since gotten used to working around that.

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Thanks for all the suggestions. Funny thing. I ended up trying the asio4all driver and it works great, at least in my daw. No more underruns, plus another side benefit.

I always had a problem with my timing when using the audifire audio driver. Any midi notes I triggered manually or guitar audio recorded always seemed to be on tick box fast in my daw. I always assumed I just had crappy timing. Now that I’m using asio4all, my timing is right where it should be…

Win7 audio performance still bites though, since I don’t know a way to use asio4all as the standard windows driver.

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