Let’s value our composers before it’s too late! This is a bit of a rant, in respect of certain big businesses that are damaging the independent music industry in my opinion. Not only that, many music producers are going along with this by allowing their music to be licensed for pennies/cents. Some big music licensing […]
What Does a Quality TV Film Production Cost?
How does $6,000,000 per produced hour sound? … With Netflix investing $6bn into 1000 hours of original content it is clear that creating compelling high quality film content is pretty costly. That is an equivalent of $6,000,000 per finished hour. It makes the amounts we charge for music licensing, sound effects, voice over services and […]
Building a Sample Based Orchestra and God Save the Queen
My goal of getting back into writing and producing music has been challenging so far. Initially, I found that the range of options for composing with computers these days is literally mind blowing. We have access to many thousands of sounds and what you tend to find is that you start off with an idea in […]
Will We Run Out of Music? Or Is Music Infinite?
Over the last few months I have spent a serious amount of time studying and refreshing my knowledge on music composition and production. In the previous 10 years or so, running MediaMusicNow has been my priority and composing my own music has taken a backseat (until now). Getting back into music production has taken a […]
How Many Tracks Does a Library Composer Need to Generate Royalties?
A Library Owner’s View This is an interesting subject for me. Initially I was a composer who setup a library to sell my music. However, I also started to add music from other interested composers and this became a full time job meaning I had no time to create my own music. Ten years on […]
Making Sense of Royalty Free Music: More Libraries and Defunct Music Dealers
The music library concept has been around for many years, actually long before the internet incarnation of it took hold. It is almost 11 years and counting for our journey and there are more libraries online than ever and more keep appearing on a fairly regular basis. Why is this? The reason is simple, the barrier […]
Avoiding Monetization Losses on YouTube
There is nothing more frustrating than uploading your latest video for your subscribers just to find that your monetisation has been disabled due to third party content detected in your video. This renders your video revenueless for the first few hours of its existence, at least until the third party releases it and your video […]
Is there a benefit of using 192kHz Audio?
The bewildering array of audio output formats on my audio production software and differing opinions left me curious about what real world use these higher sampling rates provided. To settle my curiosity I went on a Googling binge to see what I could glean. For those of a similar nature here are my findings and […]
European Commission controlling the volume on our MP3 players, iPods and other personal music players
Did you know, if you are purchasing a personal music player in an EU country the ability to increase the volume will have been artificially limited? By this, I mean limited by software / firmware rather than by the ability of the electronics. This is because the manufacturers of such devices are complying with the […]
What is a Fair Royalty-free Music License Fee?
It’s a tricky question of judgment and fairness with no definitive answer. Getting the right balance and charging the right royalty-free music license fee can be difficult. Make it too low, you upset composers, but make it too high, you upset clients. It is competitive out there so the temptation is to create a low […]
