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Originally Posted by Rufuss Sewell  Ok, sorry about that, I misunderstood and thought that the content was delivered with the zip.
I hope it works!!! I'd love to actually be making some money on future albums. |
I think once we show what we have, other services will bump up user power and let content owners deliver a more diverse set of items in a package.
(please excuse the flashback rant here but I feel compelled)
I remember in '95 - '96 I received a rare opportunity to produce, record, and mix a song that had a shoe in for a popular DJ on one the biggest radio stations in NYC at the time.
The problem was that our group had no money to go to an actual studio.. So, here I am with my trusty ASR-10 and a very cheap DAT machine. I invested in a CAD E-200 and a $40 phantom power attachment and used a pillow case for a pop filter (i had the artists hold it in front of them at the mic) because for some reason I didnt have an extra $40 for a mic stand pop filter and refused to make one out of a stocking and hanger (so young and not thinking lol).
For 4 days straight, I recorded the artists vocals directly to DAT using the pass through ASR-10 compressor. I used the pre-verse bleed of the drum track of the headphones recorded on DAT to later sample each good verse and adlibs into keys and synced them with the sequences. I used the song mode to arrange all parts of the song, then saved everything on 16 floppy disks. Imagine the horror of the recall lol.
Determined to succeed at any cost, here I am a 21 year old "kid" trying my best to mix a song entirely on a ASR-10 with no mixing experience or knowledge at that time. I stayed up 4 days straight working on that.
I remember the first time I heard this record played between 2 very big budget singles at the time, i mean here we are playing on the radio with the big boys with no record deal!
I remember how hard it was to get 1 CD recorded of this song to take to labels for meetings, how expensive it was to press vinyl of this song to distribute to DJs.
I say all this to say this:
I look at everything available today and it amazes me every time how EASY it is to expose a project to the public. How many road blocks that are now not there. How I wish we had a MySpace back in '96 and how amazing it would have been to be able to sell our radio song direct and receive payments without the need of dealing with lawyers and shady record labels (slash publishers).
Many of the experiences I have been through has been the motives behind many of the musician friendly features of RZ. It is literally the thing I wish I had back when I was left hurting because someone was able to make a decision to limit our progress and exposure.
I have always had sort of an vendetta to one day make sure that anyone that wants to express themselves and sell their music, that when I was able, I would create something that no one member of "the powers that be" can top or stop.
I am confident that we have achieved this goal.
Thanks
again sorry for the flashback rant :)