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If someone will pay upfront or has cool gear I want then its on, of course. But this back end social media thing is my way forward in the future and will solve the problem where guys won't pay me for a year and just release the roughs! Although I solved that by adding white noise to a spot in almost finsihed mixes. I ahte when stuff I wasn't done gets put out there. Its not just compensation.

...but isn't your profit then tied to their social media prowess AND their integrity in staying honest re: income made from social media? What's their incentive to be honest re: how successful they are on Patreon over the coming years?

my thought is to make it a shared patreon until the bill is paid

my thought is to make it a shared patreon until the bill is paid

10-4, sounds viable so long as client is contractually bound to communicate and play nice with you for as long as it takes. Out of curiosity, does Patreon have explicit features and functions to support that kind of setup? If not, it's a killer idea for someone to tap into.

I love lawyers

Out of curiosity, does Patreon have explicit features and functions to support that kind of setup? If not, it's a killer idea for someone to tap into.

I'm not entirely sure, never used it.... I'm not a virtual busker like some folks....

I love lawyers

hard to do business at a certain level without some legal counsel... but yeah, expensive.

I've got a couple of guys I'm real tight with who look out for me in all things when needed for not a lot of money. I'm doing business at a real circle of friends level right now or I'm charging up front, too. I need some recent stuff on my reel and if someone I like makes something I really like I could be talked into doing it just for the credit. I've only mixed a few records the last decade. Its weird, i feel like not doing it professionally has me doing my best work though. Just fooling with my own music and thinking about things has really given me a lot of ew approaches that are going really well. I've honed my multi bus system and come up with some treatments for drum machines and loops that I'm really proud of. And I'm always fishing for weird pieces of gear, not just utilitarian stuff. I got these Gates solid statesman broadcast limiters that are so weird sounding. They're not tube but they have like 3 transformers each and 2 inductors for reasons I don't know even looking at the schematic. I can only figure out what the 2 balncing transformers are for, the other iron is a mystery. The things have like 2 compression stages to make limiting, its soem kinda thermistor based system I don't udnerstand that also is followed by a FET detection circuit but the FETs are wired in as diodes for some reason so maybe tis more like a Neve diode bridge, ne part is pretty ehavy handed but slow attakc and the other part is lighter and has insanely fast attack to get what the first part missed, its attack in microseconds. Its not a refined tool, but in context its both a leveler with balls and also has a huge a huge gain swing so it can be a jFET distortion box with tons of transformers making an almost guitar amp type of dirt. I would actually try putting this inf ront of an amp on stage its that cool sounding.

I digress.

I've got a couple of guys I'm real tight with who look out for me in all things when needed for not a lot of money.

Glad to hear this.

I'm doing business at a real circle of friends level right now or I'm charging up front, too. I need some recent stuff on my reel and if someone I like makes something I really like I could be talked into doing it just for the credit.

Totally get that, you need a current CV to be able to start charging what you're worth... just so long as folks know they are getting services worth at least $300/track for practically free.

The way I see it, it's 2031, and your services are now worth $1000/track (equivalent of $800/track in todays dollars)... because you seem to have the talent, experience, and personality needed to get to that point... so all my little questions/comments are coming from that place, that you're going to get there, and that the this stage where you're doing pro bono work or charging $100-$300/track is just a temporary, but necessary, phase in the process.

that would be cool to have a steady career again when I'm 50 because then I wouldn't care that our generation can't afford to retire because making records never feels like work... unless you need to wire up patchbays, ugh, I miss interns! I'm setting up three 48 point patchbays today and boy are my arms tired...

you should see the frickin' snow here, its like a mix of snow and sleet that's large enough to classify as hale... Philly's got 2 Halestorms now

you should see the frickin' snow here, its like a mix of snow and sleet that's large enough to classify as hale... Philly's got 2 Halestorms now

Yeesh. Sorry to hear it, Jim. Is the electricity/heating holding up ok at least?

we're used to it so we don't have the problems our boys in Austin are having. They got blindsided. I've got massive surge/conditioning for my gear and a few UPSes too so ina heating/electricity crunch i can run a few hours of battery to power space heaters and tube equipment. Its not going to happen though. Bad things happen in Philly so we're always prepared.

Gritty gets mad when he can't charge his phone....

Shit is unhinged over here in PDX. 1/3 of the city w/o power, roads are closed due to downed trees EVERYWHERE, etc. Not as bad as Texas fer sure but properly fucked none the less.

This is when you pat yourself for never sliding on redundant back ups.

Shit is unhinged over here in PDX. 1/3 of the city w/o power, roads are closed due to downed trees EVERYWHERE, etc. Not as bad as Texas fer sure but properly fucked none the less.

Portland is getting this @#$% too?!? I'm sorry to hear it, xaqary.

This is when you pat yourself for never sliding on redundant back ups.

+1 pats from me too. I slide way too much.

This is when you pat yourself for never sliding on redundant back ups.

I know, mother nature is trying to stop us working and possibly even damage our gear.

Thought the OB6 was fried on Monday, bout lost my shit. Had moved it to a temporary spot & it was off its regular surge protector & I forgot. Freaked the fuck out

Thought the OB6 was fried on Monday, bout lost my shit. Had moved it to a temporary spot & it was off its regular surge protector & I forgot. Freaked the fuck out

but it's ok after all, yes?

Would Sequential even attempt a repair on something like that, or is it a tragic "for parts" case if that happens? I have no idea how serviceable these modern analog polys are for anything beyond finding and fixing common single points of failure. Would home/apartment insurance cover something like that? This is making me queasy just thinking about it.

Thought the OB6 was fried on Monday, bout lost my shit. Had moved it to a temporary spot & it was off its regular surge protector & I forgot. Freaked the fuck out

Oh man, that's the worst feeling.All of those microprocessors for the MIDI and memory are delicate. Glad its okay.

oh man, I just got a valley dynamite in the mail that my friend got me... now I have all their stuff part from a commander or two

Yeah, everything’s all good- not sure about repairs on DSI stuffs thankfully I haven’t needed to find out yet. Glad to hear everyone else faired well too!

HELL yeah

Who has more snow today? Jeez!