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do producers make a good living?
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| LoveHate |
| theres alot of them out there just wondering if the (the well known ones) i know most dj's also produce but what about the ones that just produce..do they make music but also have a day job? |
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| LoveHate |
plus lot of people just download
but i guess they get royalties everytime say tiesto features there track on a mix cd . |
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| Aquarian |
| The top 1% or so do. The rest keep their day jobs. |
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| Zild |
| Most of them wait tables. |
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| RapidFire |
| I guess it depends on how much you produce how well recieved your productions are. obviously guys like BT have it good but he tours and the side and releases albums and not the regular one off singles which is common to most producers. |
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| jupiterone |
| Also depends on who youre signed to and how your contracts work. |
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| Allied Nations |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
Most of them wait tables. |
Or an equally un "glamorous" equivalent :p |
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| breakaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Aquarian
The top 1% or so do. The rest keep their day jobs. |
Probably quite true, especially trance music don't sell much anymore (Even 100 times less than before 2000). Digital (mp3) are selling better and better but unfortunately there isn't much money at all for us producers. I think, average you need to get about 30-40 tracks released/year if you want to make living with music. This is reality to new producers, established names do earn better naturally. So better make your name known out there or forget about trance if you want to make living with it. Or start doing house music, it still sells atleast few thousand vinyl copies (or so I've heard). Trance labels press about 200-700 copies these days and many labels have given up vinyl for good.
Money really is in dj gigs so no wonder why many producers dj as well. |
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| Lunar Phase 7 |
Even DJing there isnt all that much cash in it.
You need to be doing a fair few gigs week in week out to make a half decent wage from it, plus its not a permenant career either. DJs cant keep djing till they are like 60 odd, certainly not properly anyways, with a good following.
And I know one or two psy trance DJs do, but don't tell me they make a good living off it.
It's pretty much hobby only nowadays. |
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| MichaelBoogerd! |
| quote: | Originally posted by LoveHate
theres alot of them out there just wondering if the (the well known ones) i know most dj's also produce but what about the ones that just produce..do they make music but also have a day job? |
Producing doesn't pay the bills.. thats why so many producers of EDM are now pretending to be DJs on the scene as well. |
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| breakaholic |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lunar Phase 7
Even DJing there isnt all that much cash in it.
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Also true, in Finland EDM djs don't make much money. Very few can make living out of it. You need to have gigs regularly. Still you get about as much money from one gig that you get from one release. |
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| Ian |
| I think the "professional" producers often are way worse than those with 'real' jobs. Take guys like Ralphie B who earns his money from his day job & produces secondly. He is then able to produce 1 or 2 quality tracks a year even, and not rely on it selling, meaning he doesn't have to copy fads or flog his sounds in 100 tracks a year like some. |
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