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    How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    An excellent way of protecting A & R guys from having to get up from behind their desks.

    I don't really think that it'll do anything to protect naive young musicians from the worst evils of market forces though.

    ($1 of each sale goes to mental health organization MindFreedom, and digital versions of the record were made available through Bandcamp for $4 Tuesday.)

    I agree they would do wiser to put that money into a legal fund to pay for lawyers protecting their butts - and first get a secure financial basis before playing Bill Gates. :001_tongue:

    How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?

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    One in fifty, in the UK, translates into a million people if you can get it out to them.

    Do you have a website where people could download it (and order any other relevant content, maybe home-printed Special CD/DVD/Blu-Ray or other artwork).

    Maybe you don't really need the industry that bad, or be an employee, for that matter. Maybe that whole paradigm has had its time. :)

    How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    Prometheus, on 06 July 2011 - 09:00 PM, said:

    I honestly believe it probably is impossible to change it in any meaningful way in the long term. Human nature being what it is, the tail will always end up wagging the dog.

    I believe that if you change an environment sufficiently, the whole ruleset can change. This does not mean human behaviour will be different, but in a leveled playing field the stakes can be even again, because you could start from scratch, in a lot of *meaningful* ways.

    Prometheus, on 06 July 2011 - 09:00 PM, said:

    In my experience, you have two basic choices in life. You can be cool or you can be rich. Only a handful of people in the world ever get to be both and sadly it looks like I'm never going to be one of them.

    They say money has its own sex appeal. :P But I agree, having money *and* real friends does not go hand in hand automatically.

    Prometheus, on 06 July 2011 - 09:00 PM, said:

    This being the case, I'd rather maintain my Jack Kerouac like spirit of rebellion but live on a meagre income. At least this way I can look at the Brendan Moons of the Scottish music industry and feel that I have the bluer blue eyes and the more sex appeal out of the two of us even if he has all the money.

    Not familiar with him, nor can I find much when I google him - care to explain why you think he 'has made it' while others don't?

    Prometheus, on 06 July 2011 - 09:00 PM, said:

    That said, the industry needs to accept that it can't expect to keep a vice like grip on the means of distribution and the licensing. No sane person is going to buy one copy of Dark Side of The Moon for their car stereo, another for their MP3 player and refuse to play it with the window open incase their neighbours get to listen to it, that's absurd.

    Nolo contendere - but that's just moneyshoveling capitalism at it's worst (some would say give *any* capitalist system enough time, and it will always devolve to that)

    Prometheus, on 06 July 2011 - 09:00 PM, said:

    There also needs to be some basic ethical standards and formalities in how industry profiteers deal with the people they employ. For industry executives to adopt a High Sheriff of Nottingham stance in their own business dealings and yet cry foul at the dishonourable behaviour of file downloaders is simply not going to wash with people. All it does is make downloaders feel like Robin Hood instead of feeling like a robbin' bastard.

    Nolo contendere - and that's not even mentioning the deliberate leaking of material by shady promoters.

    On a more practical level, what would you forbid outright/make mandatory if you could reboot the system?

    Prometheus, on 06 July 2011 - 09:00 PM, said:

    One other thing I would suggest is that the executives should let the artists handle the creative process and they should keep their noses out of it and stick to what they're good at, which is creative accounting. The likes of Simon Cowell and Amanda Holden, one of whom is primarily known for being fabulously rich on the back of other people's work and the other who is primarily known for two timing Les Dennis, getting to tell the public who has talent and who doesn't is causing untold damage to the creative arts.

    Saddeningly there seems to be a (cultivated) taste for tabloidism in Western society - maybe even in humanity in general. I think the best counter-practice would be to doggedly expose the cynicism of these people. Maybe we should start a 'fan' group for these people and post all materials on a website showing their not-so-glamorous practices in all its gory detail.

    Tbanks for the detailed reply already. :)

    How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    I can think of no way of trying to become rich that is more crazy than investing in the music industry as it operates today.

    In my opinion, the entire music industry is an unmitigated farce that needs to be completely annihilated and rebuilt from basic principles again. Of course, the apologists for the industry will point out that my outspoken attacks have led to my being thoroughly routed from said industry.

    That's not entirely impossible - several people have suggested a company like Google *buying up* the entire music industry from their petty cash (they can) and do exactly that.

    What would you suggest the Google management would change, first off? Serious question...

    How Much Does It Cost To Make A Hit Song?

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    Amazing!..........makes me incredibly happy to be a recreational writer! :001_tongue:

    Tom

    Yeah well it's pretty amazing to see what it takes to get a #1 hit - this kind of money just to produce it, and then for the clip you need to buy the cooperation of a couple of huge other names, a few Hollywood stars, shot by a moonlighting director and his team, and *still* your topics should include domestic violence/raunchy sex, or it will fail to appeal on an 'emotional' (=sensational) level.

    Yeah, then you will get guaranteed returns, and several *hundreds of millions* of views on YouTube.

    And hey, *maybe* I will use that track for my next game. Maybe. :)

    (love that YT comment: This porn has some nice music.)

    After Effects Plug Ins?

    in Videos and Images

    Posted

    Yep, that was done using Trapcode Form. What we could do is set up a subforum with the best tuts for those plugins. I downloaded just about every one worth while, on the basis that they don't remain online forever - quite a few are, tho - and without tutorials most of those plugins are pretty useless, since some of them have a stupefyingly steep learning curve - you really need to get your head around some of them. :)

    After Effects Plug Ins?

    in Videos and Images

    Posted

    Hi John

    http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/

    my favourites - different suites for different needs, tho.

    I use Trapcode myself, not the Magic Bullet - those are more for Quick and Dirty edits in post, I think - and quite frankly some of the tools supplied with AE are less accessible than MB, but they are technically superior. (e.g. Colorista vs. Color Finesse - just check the final output, Colorista is a lot more intuitive to use, but doesn't come close to the cleanliness of the output of CF).

    Then again, what you can do with Trapcode isn't even remotely present in vanilla AE.

    Android Tablet Audio Interface

    in Music Production and Recording

    Posted

    Hi,

    android and audio recording is still somewhat in its infancy I fear. :) I sincerely hope this will be remedied soon.

    Here are some pointers:

    http://www.mobware4u.com/tutorials/android-audio-recording

    The main problem is that it's either easy to use, but compressed (not exactly optimal for further processing) or pretty technical, as in still needs programming skills.

    I suggest you go the simple route first, and see what works and works not, preferably in the shop *before* you spend any cash. I think USB interfaced hardware should be your best option.

    If that all works as it should, you are safe on the hardware front, and then you can then proceed to use more advanced apps that may still need a bit of tweaking, for the more serious quality stuff and higher sample rates.

    If you need any assistance at that point, just holler :)

    Internet Radio

    in Music Industry

    Posted

    @Coises

    Well, sometimes things have been tried earlier in a more primitive form, but their time just hadn't come yet (I believe there have been a few iPad predecessors in the past, that all came to zip, since they were too bulky, or expensive, or simply too weird).

    And sometimes it's a matter of doing the same old same (think AOL and Facebook) but on a far grander scale, or more immediately interactive.

    Talking about which - I think they haven't really thought the 'interactive' part thru yet - they mostly have silly ideas about advertising going interactive on your case - yeah people will line up for *that*, sure thang.

    But you could do the same old same of all the stuff that *used* to work well in old-fashioned radio, and give those a new twist (interactive playlist voting, skype-ins etc).

    Nothing really 'new' but old-fashioned radio would get a nice boost up the behind from doing the old things in a new way that you just *could not* have done it back in the old days.

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