deadringer
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OrangeChannel said:Indeed. Catch up on the clients brah....Clients = $$$, $$$ = More MM's down the road.
Late!
Jon Z
Hey OC,
The funny thing is, I use the term "clients" as loosely as possible. It's kind of a funny story actually.
A few years ago I started putting together some toys for a home project studio. I play in all these cover bands every weekend and the wife has a great job so we don't really need the money. So I started sinking 100% of my music income back into my music stuff. So I started picking up this and that and before you know it the collection of stuff fills up a whole room in the house.
Anyway, I didn't build the studio for anything but me. I like to write original songs and I had these grand dillusions of recording a bunch of independant CD's. Honestly, it was mostly just for fun.
I never imagined that there would be any kind of market for it in my little hometown (12,000 pop.) so I wasn't thinking about money. The local university actually has a recording lab with Protools and all the fixings anyway so I figured no one would dig it anyway.
So early this spring my old friend (and drummer in most of my projects) was going to do a blues album. Long story short, I agreed to record it. Well he's been passing copies of it out to his musician friends at every step of the way. All the sudden, I've had the damn phone ringing off the hook.
Little did I know, that there was a compilation CD being put together to benfit a local hero who needs a bone marrow transplant. Anyway, all the biggest fish in our little pond were up at the college getting their songs recorded with the Protools. The college doesn't have to take customers so when they do anything outside of the college they charge pretty high. So when all these guys started hearing both the price rate of the college and the minimal difference in sound quality between my work and theirs, they started calling.
It didn't take long for word to get around and now I'm getting a ton of calls for demos, CD printing, album production, you name it. It turns out that there are a ton of locals that would love to record a quick and dirty CD for whatever reason but could never afford the college rates so they're all of the sudden into me.
It's like a scene out of a movie though. I get all these crazy offers. I basically have to work with all kinds of budgets and all sorts of media. It has been a great way to network through a ton of really nice people and a lot of different styles.
I've had such a surprising turnout that I might actually be opening up a very tiny limited independant record label. Who'd a thunk it?
The only problem being, I don't do any of this for a living. I'm a stay at home dad with a severly disabled 9 year old, a two year old and now a seven weeker. I spend every weekend doing the cover band thing so you can imagine that cramming all these jobs in on top of that has left the calender a bit overworked! It's a nice problem to have though!
