MrJames851
Active member
and as far as the union, best bet would be locally, to get together the top producers and get them to agree, but you'll always have the biters who will take away the incentive to pay more for the best
having a floor price is ok but it has to be more to the equation so that its validated because the price in itself is not the validation.
Quizno's
If you haven't figured it out by now, close your internet browser and open up FL Studio.
It amazes me that people can't wrap their head around this.
The only way to add value to your brand is to sell the benefits of what you do in contrast to what the rest of the market isn't doing. Just because Joe The Producer is whoring his product for .99 and making record profit by his standards, doesn't mean you have to do the same as well. I am starting to see less producers and more commissioned salesmen profiting off copy and paste products. That is where you build your brand's value. Sell a service and a product. There are millions of aspiring singers who would love to work with someone whom is willing to guide them in the studio. Leasing a beat online for .99 is a great bargain but finding a great producer, studio time and sound direction based on your budget is an even better bargain.
Focusing on the full solution from start to finish will drive the value of your brand (production) upward. Be a producer.
a producer's union will not work.
First of all, if you had a union of PROFESSIONAL producers, then that would be one thing...
Like electricians...or auto workers...u have people TRAINED in a certain profession...working in a certain industry...
But with "production", you're talking about having an organization, who's only requirement for entry is that they have an internet connection, so they can DL a copy of fruity loops.
It's like organizing a Screen Actors Guild, with every "model" and "actress" on myspace.
It'll never work. You're never gonna get organization on that type of scale...because you're dealing with KIDS...who can't even enter into a legal contract without their parents consent.
Sorry, but a producers union among people who really aren't even producers is just silly.
I still lease beats for over $50 so Im good. I could care less what the other man sells his beats for. As long as I get what Im asking for, thats all that matters.
And Im gonna go out on a limb and say beatpal is WHP's site that he mentioned in the email?
And to Troup,
posting that email was genius lol
Obviously it was a misstep by WHP trusting J-Troup, a known egotistical sociopath who's only goal is to start controversy, with information pertinent to our business - this will be settled between our company and WHP...
Cheers
Mike
Infinite Sound Media Solutions
Guild > Union