Interesting Article: The Problem With Digital Music (Hint: It’s About Getting Paid)
This comes from 5 Magazine out of Chicago:
Let’s walk through the process of releasing digital music today – a process designed to enrich people every step of the way who have only one thing in common: they’re not you.YOU START WITH GOOD INTENTIONS. You didn’t take classes in music but you’ve been a DJ all your life and music is a big part of it. You play some local gigs and sometimes you play out of town.You’ve graduated from Fruity Loops to Ableton and you have left an extensive online record of inane questions posted on music production message boards. You made some edits and offered them up as free downloads on your SoundCloud account. People liked them.
Free, as in beer, has been a good ride for you, but you can’t pay your rent with good karma. You put everything aside for a minute and you spend hours stumbling through various issues and experimenting with various plug-ins to get that perfect “warm” sound.
And you finally have something.
As you might guess, it all goes pear-shaped after this. Continue reading.
