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Originally Posted by Kikkomen  well, i doubt a business will fail because one made a plan. and i am sorry i put the backup disk there, should have known.
you guys have no idea who we are, yet you are treating us like we are a kindergarden. we know you guys are really good, thats why we come here. but its scary to see how you dont want talk and communicate, you instead focus on trivial things or things you dont have the knowledge to make judgements about.
if business models are a new thing to you, its pretty bad. but of course its not. you just use it as a cheap excuse to troll and mess with a newbie that mention internet and doesnt have an outboard lexicon.
but we do appreciate a question, so the answer is: the most likely format for us now is flac. but we will probably end up using several. |
Nobody on here wants you to lose a load of money through a bad plan. Many people on here have tried things before to different levels of success. I work with people who start new businesses all the time, some work, some don't.
At the moment, if you came to a business meeting with me and presented that to us, we'd rip you up for the fun of it.
Anyhoo... I don't quite get it.
You have a composition studio and a recording room... but all you want to do is master and release music? By other artists? So why the composition studio, and recording room?
You want audiophile, but seem to have no control over the tracking nor mixing of a record, which both contribute more to the audiophilic qualities of a record far more than the mastering. Selling something in 24-bit 96k does not make it 'audiophile' quality alone.
Then you say you want to master stuff, but you have no experience in mastering. Mastering doesn't just mean 'add some EQ then compress it' - there's a bit more to it. It's not a skill you can learn overnight, and you shouldn't start offering it as a paid service until you are competent in it. I've got a qualification in Aeronautical Engineering - but have no intention of offering a new helicopter design to the Ministry Of Defence any time soon - or ever.
Then you want to release stuff. I don't see what relevance 100 gigs a year has to releasing something. Nor do I see how 5 albums on reputable labels helps (seeing that the label would have released it) - 5 independent records would impress me far more. Releasing something isn't as simple as chucking it on iTunes, and getting 1000 CDs pressed and printed. There's a bit more to that, too.
Marketing is a whole subject in itself. Do you have qualifications? Experience? Facebook and twitter doesn't count. There are marketing companies who do that and that alone, and have to employ a whole host of people, experts in their field. And you're trying to market music, which, having only mastered and 'released', you have no creative control over? How can you market something you have no creative control over? 'This album is really really good, so buy it! Honest' ?? Do you choose the music you release? or do the artists come to you and pay you as a service? If they choose you, are you paying royalties? Unless they're paying you as a service, I cannot see a way of making money. Releasing music you have no musical control of? Don't even bother, unless your income stream is independent of sales. And even if it is, don't expect return customers!
And this whole 'sound quality' thing?? Get over it. 95% of the music buying world probably don't give a pie if it's 16 or 24 bit. Whatever's cheaper. They buy music because they like the song, not because of how it sounds. Do you still see people flocking to buy Steely Dan records, purely because the production values of the latest Lady GaGa record are incomparable?
I read this plan and I see absolutely no evidence of an income stream whatsoever. You haven't even mentioned where the music is coming from!
The only way I can see 3 guys with a composition studio, a vocal room and a mix / master room coming together to make any kind of cash, is for you to make jingles for radio / TV and maybe some background music or whatever, and go down the licensing route. Because there sure as hell isn't a sell music to the joe public route at current!