has anyone ever gotten placements via Pump Audio?

[rhumphries]

I can speak about Pump Audio form the end user side. Some of the networks that I have worked for have the Pump Audio drives floating around for the editors to pull from, and they do get a fair amount of use as far as I can tell.

I personally haven't found the music to be especially useful for my purposes. I wouldn't say that it's terrible and I have used some cuts on occasion. My biggest gripe is that many of the tunes don't have a definitive ending. A fade out doesn't do me any good when I'm trying to sync music to picture. I'd also prefer more underscores-- nothing drives me crazier than finding a nice groove that suddenly has a bagpipe solo starting on the 8th bar .

-Richard

[shmoo2407]

Pump Audio has been good to me...

[Diablo]

Originally Posted by chris carter

It's a typical 'rename' non-exclusive deal: 50/50 on fees and 50/50 publishers "share" (100/0 writer's "share") on royalties.

Not anymore, Pump now only pays out 35% of the license fees, they keep 65%.

You can thank the Getty buyout for this.

Has anyone opted out because of this change?

[dan p]

I have my 2nd production cd with pump.
I have other deals to consider but am not against putting more with pump either.



P

[warmer]

With regard to getting the 'Green Light' I thought I would test this out and sent them two tracks of some rough work that I would say shouldn't make the grade, however they got through and within 48 hours.

Make of that what you will

[voicegenius]

any luck, as of late, with Pump Audio?

[Psy-Pye]

hi do pump accept tracks from the uk, and if they need your ssn how would this work with me being over here in england when i studied sound engineering at alchemea one of my music biz lecturers said they had some trouble with getting royalties for an artist from some work done in the u.s has anyone from the uk had any experiance with this company (pump)

[dan p]

Got my first check from pump this quarter!
Took a while to get in there system.



Dan P

[profdc]

15 yrs w/pump:

TV Cues: VH1, MTV, MTV China, ABC, ABC Family, NBC, Bravo, Biography Channel, Discovery, E, Oxygen, Bill Cosby, Colbert Report, Janet Jackson, Mind Of Mencia, Nickelodeon, PBS, USA Network, NYCT, Food Network, HGTV, TV Land, SAM, AETN, MHD, Sound Spectrum, Style Network, YES Ultimate Road Trip, BMI Bravo, XAudio, Mastiff, Women’s Ent, Animal Planet, Comedy Central, Green Channel, Learning Channel, Travel, Style Network, History Detectives, Super Station, KNBC, KWGN, WNBC, NFL Network, NCTA, CMTV

Foreign Film and Television: Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

[psychosis]

I have a question.

After you're already green lit and you send in your album,
how long does it typically take for it to completely finish it's reviews and start making money?

I realize this depends on the material,
but I've been waiting like 4 or 5 months now
and I want to see how well my first album does before I send in the 2nd one which is unfathomably better than the first.

I have to know whether or not this is a normal waiting period, because I feel like I'm spinning my wheels while waiting to send in the second album.

P.S. someone here complained about songs having fade outs instead of decent endings and about a lack of consistent backtracks.
I am focusing a lot on these two areas so don't worry.
I'm sure there are lots of people like myself who put a lot of work into their endings and who leave the bagpipes out of the mix :P

[psychosis]

@Psy-Pye

I don't know about the U.K.,
but I'm Canadian and pump accepted me
so I'm pretty sure they work internationally.

[Dubber]

do the want full-length-tracks or are short jingles (5 - 60 sec) also okay?