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(07-05-2015 10:56 PM)Vaun Wrote:
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This helps a lot, terrific post.
A few questions I have for you;
How much money do you put into production?
Can you record all of your music from a home recording set up? Could your type of income be generated from a decent home recording set up?
Would Logic Pro, Pro-Tools suffice?
Would Garageband be enough?
Whats a home set up look like that would work for this work?
Would using drum loops for a typical guitar, drums, bass, keys track suffice?
Would spending more on production(live tracks, actual studio time, mastering), produce more revenue?
The opportunity I see right now for music is online video, Youtube videos, etc.[/quote]
Glad this can help, I'm stoked i can contribute some info to the site.
Hmm good question, sometimes i spend $0 on production, other times it can run around $1000 per month. It depends if I'm hiring singers, rappers etc.. I don't usually spend money on mixing or mastering..
Logic Pro or Pro-Tools would definitely suffice. Whichever DAW you're most comfortable with is the best one to use..
Garageband would be enough to make music for super low budget reality shows like Swamp Pawn Repo (not a real show). Higher budget reality shows and virtually all un-scripted content have a professional music curator that can spot a garageband loop a mile away...
A good home setup would include a computer that meets the minimum standards for the DAW and any sort of third party plug-ins. A nice multi use microphone like a Shure SM58 or similar. Some decent monitors with a sub woofer would be ideal, but lots of people get by with just a laptop and headphones...
One thing you don't want to skimp on is the interface. Get a nice Apogee Duet or one of those mini apollo interfaces. They're not cheap but you can definitely hear a difference.
Drum loops are fine if you edit the loop in such a way that makes it sound less "loopy" if that makes sense. There are a few third party drum modules that have performance menus that are 100x better than apple loops. For a couple hundred bucks you have dozens of drum performances that you can throw some guitar, bass etc.. on and have a great sounding track
Nah no need for a big studio or mixing/mastering engineers. The only time my stuff gets "professionally" mixed is when a music library pays for it, and 19 times out of 20 the version i completed at home sounds better than the professionally mixed/mastered version..
Regarding YouTube vids..there's definitely a market for that, but the budgets are so small it only makes sense to do if you already have a bunch of tracks you've made for TV, Film etc.. and just want to augment your income..
For instance, a buddy of mine makes around $100,000 a year and spent a few days uploading his music to a bunch of sites that furnish music for people's YouTube wedding videos, vacation videos and the like. He makes just enough from that per month to pay for his health and car insurance. He sees it as a win because a few days work is paying for his insurance, but he didn't write the music specifically for those sites. He wrote them for reality shows which air multiple times a day, 7 days a week. Each time his tracks air on TV he gets paid..