If you base your expectations on earning from Youtube rants then you are misguided at best.

I know plenty of people making a living from music, especially for TV/Film/Game.

Youtube is literally full of clickbait, misinformed bullshit. In fact it's not even misinformed, that implies the creator of the content doesn't know. These people are just spewing out stuff they think their watchers will want to hear because it concurs with their pre-conceived idea about why they're not succeeding. Because 'it's the man'.

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Honestly, youtube is such a shitshow these days.

One of my friend's kids just watches youtube videos for hours every day, and 90% of them are just grown men, screaming about child subjects, for a child-age audience. It's fucking bizarre.

Same with gaming channels; there's all these full grown guys making videos for pre teens as if there one of them discovering a game. I told the parents they should let them watch that crap but they don't want the fallout of banning it.

I still have no idea how youtube gets away with the the massive copyright infringement. I can basically look up any song and find it, full length, in decent quality with no money or credit in some cases going to the artist or label.

It seems like it's a too big to fail model at this point run by the largest content company in the world.

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Originally posted by Mel David It's hard to make money as a scoring/library artist as well. One particular library composer's most successful composition is a basic low subby drone as it seems to be highly suitable for creating dramatic tension in a scene, whereas his more complicated works get ignored. I like Christian's videos. He's got the gift of the gab. He used to be a child actor, then composed music for porn, then onto movies/libraries. Now he is an influencer as well.

Here's the deal:

Library music can make you a fortune, but over the last 10 years, the market became absolutely saturated, by every wannabe composer (bedroom composer) thinking they can write for picture.

It's also a case of a lot of works not being phased out meaning the library itself now is so huge that composing some great action scene piece just gets filed away with the other 10,000 similar cues.

What also happened is that known composers not only submitted their know score works to libraries (I literally cannot watch an episode of Top Gear/Grand Tour without hearing my old boss Zimmer), but they started making library cues that aren't commissions for a film, they're literally library stock.

So now someone wants a piece of music like Hollywood composer chase scene, and guess what? You can license that for a fraction of what it used to cost now because there's a cheaper version in the library.

Tbh, going back to the original point about the sheer mass of content, the content itself doesn't matter;

Knowing the music editor, movie or TV producer or person in charge of the selection for the picture is 1000 times more important that how great your melody is for that cue.

I know one friend that was an engineer who went in to composing and couldn't really make money although his musical chops were intense.

He realized that an old buddy worked at one of the biggest music library/music placement companies in the USA and he had a chat with him. The guy leveled and most of the time, it's him selecting the music - the client says I need something for a romance scene and frankly can't be bothered to sift through the library, so they leave it down to him.

He said to my composer friends, just give me your music and I'll push that instead.

Next thing you know this guys is making thousands a weeks because of the connection. I think he cleared $200k in his first year and then started getting score gigs becuase he could point to all the things that had used his music.

Hate to say it but making buddies with guys at libraries and music editors is far more important that whether you can compose.

just like being able to work a room and/or "sell" a score theme to a film producer is more important that whether you have a distinction from juilliard.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Hate to say it but making buddies with guys at libraries and music editors is far more important that whether you can compose.

You should be making video blogs about this stuff and gaining a cult following on youtube! These guys are called 'curators', amirite?
Find out who they are, take them out to festivals, plow them with drugs and hookers, and you're set, lol.

I need some decision assistance here regarding mastering tools.

a) Get Sonarworks Reference Headphone 4 to make my Senny HD 280 Pro sound more accurate

b) Save the $100 towards Senny HD 650s or 600s

Is it safe to assume that a) & b) are going to be the same sound quality after I apply the headphone profile? Just don't want to spend the money when it isn't going to improve on anything.

I have been demoing True-Fi for the past couple of days, and it does make my phones sound better. I am thinking though I can simply tap the modified audio by playing pink noise, and just work out where the EQ adjustments were so I don't actually have to buy it, lol.

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Originally posted by youngpadawan42@gearslutz Poor producers unite and together we may discover the cheapest way to get that FLAT sound we dream about. I'm already researching but the list is so huge, so I thought I could ask you guys for help the list is over here > Reference 4 supported headphones | Sonarworks

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Originally posted by askomiko@gearslutz Well, the cheapest cans and software are not the same thing as good phones, it just doesn't work that way. The Sonarworks works best with the good phones, flattening out the last weird whistles, but trying to wrangle bad phones into submission is an exercise in futility. I've used Sonarworks with all my cans: Beyerdynamic 770, Sennheiser HD25 and 600, AKG240, Akg 271, AKG550. There's really no comparison and they sound nothing like each other even after the Sonarworks correction. Sennheiser HD600 isn't prohibitively expensive, but it is a world standard in studios around the world that will last you for decades. My own pair just turned 19 and still going strong! One of the best purchases and perhaps the most used piece of equipment! You should find a pair for $150 used if you search for a while.

Found a similar product for half the price. This one is strictly for headphone correction. No upgrade path to calibrate monitor speakers.

Toneboosters Morphit https://www.toneboosters.com/tb_morphit_v1.html

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I said it in the other thread but this is just band aid stuff and I'm fundamentally against the idea of using software to to mess with your signal path becuase you're not using the right monitoring setup. This could be useful if you literally have no other option than to use headphones, but otherwise Monitors (even in an untreated room) > headphones with software.

It's the same reason that room correction software hasn't really been universally embraced. It's all band aid stuff and nothing beats listening to sounds as millions of years of evolution intended us to.

Yeah I have monitors as well. My Mackie HR824s are still going strong. Occasionally the bass dipswitch is intermittent but just needs a bit of wiggling or tapping to get the woofer to activate.
The headphone profile makes music sound better and particularly vocals sound more natural. It can make your cheap headphones sound almost as good as $400 'phones. I'm still going to upgrade to HD600s/650s eventually when funds allow.

New wip inspired by Tiffany Alvord.



Fast bluegrass/rap linedancing song

Snap. Wink. Clap. And slide
Now turn around & slap your hide
Take two steps forward & a massive stride
Don't be shy you got nothing to hide

Cue banjo & 🎻 Yeehah!

I'm an automatic Tiffanatic
So dramatic old romantic
Problematic caffeine addict
Hit the ‘Like’ it’s lit!

So how about you & I, the both of us
Hop aboard that old yellow bus
Bring nothing but your guitar & sunscreen
I'll bring a couple of mics, & a DAW machine

We'll make a stop at each interesting town
To explore its tourist sights, up & down
We can beg or busk for food until twilight
Then find a motel or pitch a tent for the night

We’ll write your future hit songs, it’ll be no fuss
We’d make an awesome pair, the both of us

Those Daddario eyes had me mesmerised, like a wicked spell from a book
You have me tantalised by those bewitching eyes. Fell in love from just one look

I'm an automatic Tiffanatic
So dramatic old romantic
Problematic caffeine addict
Hit the ‘Like’ it’s lit!

My guards up I’m pugilistic
Cross me you’ll become a statistic
I'm an automatic Tiffanatic
Hit the ‘Like’ it’s lit! 🤖

🎻

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I made up a tongue-twister:

If you could hug wood where you stood how big would that wood be?
Would you be as good if you could to also hug me?
I'm Groot. I'm made of wood. I have no roots. I am free.

Last edited by Mel David on Oct-07-2018 at 12:32