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-i took comments personally and sometimes felt insulted or shamed

I agree with everything you said boinkeee but if I may speak for the OP, I don’t think he was talking about being insulted or humiliated personally, more like a general negative attitude with a couple of users. Just people who will whine about anything.

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but the site is so overwhelmingly negative

I wouldn’t go that far. Over the last 2 years I have lurked so much on MLR and have learned so much about how this industry works, and I am forever grateful. I don’t post that much yet because I don’t think I have enough experience to offer valid opinions that would be useful to new comers. I would honestly say the majority of users are very helpful and supportive.

That said I really do think there are 3-4 people on the site, who post pretty often of course, that every time I see their name, I know it’s gonna be something negative and unproductive, and just skip to the next comment. There are people like that in every forum and every industry. The kind of people that if you listen to everything they say you wouldn’t ever get anything done in your life.

If the site had an “ignore” button I would definitely use it on these 3-4 people.

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an initial and intensive deconstruction of cues is the gift that keeps on giving

Thank you very much for the advice Paul I am going to try to do exactly what you suggested. That sounds very logical and it probably would save me a lot of work.

Those tracks 8-out of-10 times NEVER come in sounding like that

Thanks man I understand that- However I am sure those mixes sound much closer to a mastered version than mine. Especially the “too In The Box sound” as you mention.
This is what is what I am having most trouble with to be honest. Not that my cues sound that bad, just put them next to the reference, and the difference in production quality and especially depth is tremendous.

Nothing that can’t be solved with a lot of practice i guess 🙂

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Thanks for the answers guys

If the plan is to feed the pipeline to get to that point, that’s good

Yes, it’s just part of my plan to try and diversify, not only have 20 tracks in RF to check how they would do, just get started somewhere.

tracks that do well in the broadcast TV (reality TV, etc.) market don’t NECESSARILY do well in the RF market

That alone is a thread in itself isn’t it? I still have a long way before I am confident in what kind of music will work in which market 🙂

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Thank you so much for the comments guys 🙂

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using that Template for multiple Library/Catalog submissions; and not going towards the same Album

Yes that sounds like a good idea. Best to forget about doing this in an album format. Its either that or capturing the guitar DIs and reamping with different tones for every song. I was worrying about this… After the 4th-5th song I wouldnt know which snare sample to use either haha

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Cool thanks for the answers!

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I always do alts and edits while everything is still midi

I knew there would be someone!

Try working with stems – with long strings separated from short strings, pads from rhythms, cymbals from the rest of the drums.

Not sure I follow you Mark, maybe because my question was poorly worded 😉
Do you mean you export the group stems and then do the edits making individual fades for each stem? That does sound easier to me than editing the master file. My audio editing skills aren’t the best.

Hasn’t been a problem for me and I sell a fair amount of 30 second mixes

Ok. Would you say it would be harder if the material is more “ambient”? I am kind of a delay junkie.

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endings get brutally chopped all the time

Yes I can tell endings are getting murdered everywhere especially in ads.

That’s not what I meant though – What I mean is when you take different parts/phrases from your piece to make a smaller version, don’t you run into trouble when “pasting them” one after the other? (Not talking about the ending – hope that makes sense)

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Thanks for the replies,

Yes, I know how to do tempo variations in my DAW, I was just wondering if it would be annoying for editors to have the tempo fluctuate. Good to know it’s not!

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Thanks for the responses

@NY Composer – in this case by “outdated” they meant “80s or 90s sounding”, as they told me this directly, including the brief where they sent 80s sounding synths as reference tracks 🙂

I have found this particular library seems to really like shimmer reverb/crystal delay type sounds (in my opinion this sounds more outdated than 80s analog synths – to each his own I guess…)

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No, those are not the initials of this library 🙂
Your answer makes me think this is not uncommon. Have you encountered this situation often before?

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I am spanish and SGAE is a farce. When I started writing music for libraries I joined PRS because I just don’t trust SGAE (or anything official in Spain for that matter). After a lot of research I found there are no significant downsides to being spanish and joining a foreign PRO.

Still I am no expert so if anyone knows better I’m all ears-

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I am curious if you found out the answer to your question

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