| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Moderator: | DYPSS1::SCHAFER |
| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 29 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2852 |
| Total number of notes: | 33157 |
Home Studios can make Money! I sold my first commercial for $2000 about a month ago. I heard it on TV-38 last night for the first time with video. A friend of mine works in advertising and asked me about doing jingles because I had upgraded by TASCAM 244 4-track to a TASCAM 38 8-track (I saw Ted Czotter's and had to have one). At first I was leary of 'selling out' and 'jeopardizing my artist integrity' but $2000 is not bad for 30 hrs work. It helps subsidize my 'hobby'. Don't think I'll give my job up at DEC just yet, though. ;^) The format of most commercials is similar. Mine is 18 bars and is exactly 29 1/2 seconds long. It starts with a 4 second 'full sing' of the main jingle line, the does an 16 second 'loop' were the spot is overdubbed by an announcer "This month prices will never be lower...",etc. and then has a full sing at the end. The commercial was for Spags's dept store. The idea of a jingle like this is to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. All keys, bass and drums were programmed using a MSQ-700 sequencer and a LINNDRUM. Synths were a JUPITER-6 and a JUNO-60 (I'm a big Roland fan) MIDI'ed to the MSQ. The JUNO has a DCB plug, so I have a DCB <-> MIDI interface called a MD-8. My wife sang on it. Funny thing about this is that I'm really a guitar player and there is no guitar in the jingle. I can't play keys or drums to save my life, but I can program 'em. I love this technology. Dave
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| 240.1 | MENTOR::COTE | Thu Feb 06 1986 07:45 | 3 | ||
Congratulations! Edd | |||||
| 240.2 | SAUTER::SAUTER | Thu Feb 06 1986 09:48 | 7 | ||
Congratulations from me too! You are now a pro, with all
of the hassles and rewards: ASCAP, tax deductions for your
equipment and possibly the space they occupy in your home,
insurance, etc., etc. Would you be interested in sharing
your sequence with others? I am pretty sure I can copy
it to an Apple floppy in Roland format.
John Sauter
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| 240.3 | SIVA::FEHSKENS | Thu Feb 06 1986 10:20 | 8 | ||
Congrats! How'd you get the gig? Did you hook up with Spags directly, or their ad agency, etc.? Did you have a demo to show beforehand? How were their needs characterized? Etc. I've got pretty much the same setup you've described (MSQ-700, Tascam 38, Super Jupiter etc.) and as I develop my skills it'd be nice to know how to ammortize some of the equipment costs, to now justified solely as a "hobby". len. | |||||
| 240.4 | OLORIN::CZOTTER | Thu Feb 06 1986 17:09 | 6 | ||
Super Dave! BTW, if you need help on your next commercial with recording the keys, feel free to call me. If you pay me a dollar maybe I can deduct all my keyboards as a business expense as well. That would save me thousands of dollars in income taxes. Ted | |||||
| 240.5 | CHAMP2::DDREHER | Thu Feb 06 1986 17:35 | 31 | ||
re: 2 I think it would be easy to transfer sequences. If your computer can accept a clock signal and can record in real time then we could connect the MSQ-700 MIDI out to your sequencer's MIDI in. Then we could use your SBX-80? to start both devices and keep them in synch, recording the sequence in real time. I think this aproach would work to tranfer MIDI data from a variety of sequencers. I have a library of stuff from Bach to cover tunes to originals. re: 3 My contact with Spag's is a former drummer that used to be in a band with some other musicians I used to play with. He is now in the advertising dept at Spag's. He basically does print, like Sunday paper stuffers. He knows some people at TV 10 who do commercials. One of these guys just left TV 10 to form an advertising agency with some of his client base he built at TV 10, including Spag's. The idea is that when an account is landed, the agency will be responsible for print, audio, and video. My studio is going to do the audio, as long as they and clients are happy with the work. They had previously worked with 24-track studios, but the cost was expensive due paying studio time, engineers, song writers, and musicians. I can deliver just as good a product as they can, at lower cost and fewer logistical headaches. This was the first job to prove myself, and hopefully other assignments will be forth coming. The next one will be a holding company that owns a couple of shopping malls, and wants to start advertising on radio and TV. Dave | |||||
| 240.6 | I think I heard it.... | MENTOR::COTE | Sue me if I play too long... | Fri May 02 1986 09:39 | 7 |
Dave,
Is that you that I've heard incessantly on channel 10?
Good stuff!
Edd
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| 240.7 | JUNIOR::DREHER | Wed May 07 1986 02:24 | 8 | ||
That's the one.
The EQ was terrible for the TV version - no high end.
The radio version came out better...
Thanks...
Dave
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