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My weekend - Cleaning out our big storage room and turning it into a recording studio. Hiking tomorrow. Dinner with friends Sunday. Trying to talk

Posted by pmb (aka pmb) May 22 '15, 07:50

my parents into moving back into the independent living facility that they spent 2 weeks in and left yesterday. They're not making this easy.

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re IM: yikes - good luck. this is stuff isn't easy. -- nm - Diva May 22, 08:00 7
- Thanks. It's not fun. - pmb May 22, 08:09 6
  - Not to butt in, but three kids. Are you all in the area? My grandmother is 94 and still lives alone. - Spawn May 22, 08:12 5
    - We all live in the area, but it's a little more complicated than that. - pmb May 22, 08:19 3
      - Ouch. I was thinking them being together would make it easier, but in ways it sounds the opposite. - Spawn May 22, 08:27 2
        
        On the one hand they get along great with each other (better than I remember when I was a kid). They're like this cute old loving couple now, but my - pmb May 22, 08:31 1
        
        Yeah, that is very similar to how mine were before my grandfather passed. - Spawn May 22, 08:43
    - it really depends on the people that need help, and how much they need. -- nm - San Andreas May 22, 08:15
*subscribes to the pmb recording studio newsletter* - oblique May 22, 07:50 13
- Very cool. Where are you releasing it? Soundcloud? So far we have bought most of the equipment. We got a Focusrite Sapphire Pro 40 audio interface - pmb May 22, 08:02 12
  - we release via Tuncore to iTunes, Amazon, Xbox Music, Google Play and Spotify. It's $30 to release, $50/yr after - oblique May 22, 08:06 11
    - Very interesting. I wasn't aware of that option. I like that better than Soundcloud. I may ask you for more info on that when we have something to - pmb May 22, 08:11 10
      - Sure. It's about as easy as it gets when it comes to distribution. There's other options like CDBaby - oblique May 22, 08:16 9
        
        What is the royalty arrangement with itunes and amazon? What percentage goes to you? -- nm - pmb May 22, 08:27 8
        
        So we have to pay 0.09 per licensed copy for CDs and digital distribution to the author. Nothing to do with Tunecore. On Tunecore we get 0.70 cents - oblique May 22, 08:34 7
        
        Interesting. I thought the artists got a higher percentage from amazon and itunes that that. No wonder artists can't make any money selling music - pmb May 22, 08:41 5
        
        Remember, that's *royalty* from us to the artist for the cover. As an original artist, you'd be getting the 0.70 from 0.99 via Tunecore from iTunes - oblique May 22, 08:42 4
        
        Sorry, when you said 0.70 cents I thought you meant less than a penny, but apparently you mean 70 cents. That makes more sense (and cents). -- nm - pmb May 22, 08:49 3
        
        Ah. No, it's Spotify/streaming that really is kinda crappy. 1/10th of a penny usually per song. I'm sure it adds up when you're getting - oblique May 22, 08:51 2
        
        Actually I think it's even less than that and it doesn't really add up. Last year's most streamed song (Avicci "Wake Me Up") was streamed 128 million - pmb May 22, 09:05 1
        
        I think you're right. I had my decimals mixed up! :) -- nm - oblique May 22, 09:06
        
        Oh, and I should not that if you're doing covers and only distributing on Spotify you don't have to pay the 0.09 royalty to the artist - oblique May 22, 08:35

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