Would you PAY artists to remix your tracks?
Would you PAY artists to remix your tracks? Posted on: 04.08.2013 by Luke Loughin I'm debating whether it makes sense to pay bigger artists in your niche (anywhere between $100 - $400) to remix one of your tunes for your EP. I see it like this at the moment...+ You would have the support of the artist/impressive resum | |
| Nikole Resende 05.08.2013 | First of all, I believe your price estimates are VERY optimistic... Professionell mastering of you tracks will cost you about 50$/track, and that is just for the mastering engineer sitting down for anything between 15 and 60 minutes to lay the finishing touches on you track. I don't believe many artists will be willing to work on a remix for several hours/days for just 100$ - 400$... Regarding your pros/cons:
Originally Posted by MarioMHJV
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| Luke Loughin 04.08.2013 | I'm debating whether it makes sense to pay bigger artists in your niche (anywhere between $100 - $400) to remix one of your tunes for your EP. I see it like this at the moment... + You would have the support of the artist/impressive resum |
| Stephenie Liloia 08.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by MarioMHJV
If an artist is wanting to remix one of your tracks it should be for the pure joy that the original brings them & the elements they feel they can add to your work. I do not approve of this idea and would never put myself in a position where im putting my hard earned money into others hands for fame. Although, I could see it working in the proper circumstances but there are superior ways of achieving your goals. |
| Random X 08.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by JasonBay
Originally Posted by djfunke
https://soundcloud.com/plusplusrec/rstrctd-someone-sc-preview |
| Ninfa Mazariegos 06.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by tekki
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| Georgina Schatzman 06.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by tekki
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| Nikole Resende 05.08.2013 | First of all, I believe your price estimates are VERY optimistic... Professionell mastering of you tracks will cost you about 50$/track, and that is just for the mastering engineer sitting down for anything between 15 and 60 minutes to lay the finishing touches on you track. I don't believe many artists will be willing to work on a remix for several hours/days for just 100$ - 400$... Regarding your pros/cons:
Originally Posted by MarioMHJV
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| Luke Loughin 04.08.2013 | I'm debating whether it makes sense to pay bigger artists in your niche (anywhere between $100 - $400) to remix one of your tunes for your EP. I see it like this at the moment... + You would have the support of the artist/impressive resum |
| Rochel Gleese 08.08.2013 | Put it this way there's no reason I'd be more willing to buy your track if one of my more liked/respected producers did a remix on it, I might listen to it, but I wouldn't buy the original just for the hell of it, unless its a whole a whole album, but then I'd have to dig most of the tracks anyway. I say keep producing, pushing it on your own, obviously there's no shortcuts |
| Stephenie Liloia 08.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by MarioMHJV
If an artist is wanting to remix one of your tracks it should be for the pure joy that the original brings them & the elements they feel they can add to your work. I do not approve of this idea and would never put myself in a position where im putting my hard earned money into others hands for fame. Although, I could see it working in the proper circumstances but there are superior ways of achieving your goals. |
| Random X 08.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by JasonBay
Originally Posted by djfunke
https://soundcloud.com/plusplusrec/rstrctd-someone-sc-preview |
| Emelina Chillson 06.08.2013 | I pay between 40-100 depending on the artist. THey dont receive payment untill I get a sample of the completed work. |
| Ninfa Mazariegos 06.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by tekki
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| Georgina Schatzman 06.08.2013 |
Originally Posted by tekki
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| Random X 06.08.2013 | Well, we had the great luck that the label had our two tracks remixed by pro musicians. (Yes, the release is almost upon us) |
| Efrain Scharr 06.08.2013 | Any respectable artist who is doing a remix will promote it for you... I don't believe you would need to ask them or require them to promote their track. |
| Luke Loughin 05.08.2013 | @LanceBlaise I agree on the genre crossing point you made. I'm a hard electro ('trash electro' as it's called) producer so a lot of my favourite artists aren't incredibly famous for example: Cyberpunkers, Toxic Avenger, F.O.O.L, La Musique D'Ordinateur, Gtronic, etc. When I wrote the post I was believeing of hiring someone for a self-released project, exactly on bandcamp as @TCMuc mentioned (although I have worked with labels before). I came to the 300-400 figure from asking some of the above artists - one who mentioned they could do it for €300). I guess any promotion or trickle-down exposure would have to be agreed on beforehand (ie. €300 to remix AND help promote for 1 week). It isn't an issue of tune quality, just breaking through in that particular niche. |
| Efrain Scharr 05.08.2013 | It really has to do with a few things. You need to obviously have a good track to start out with, no one who is respectable is going to remix something that they don't believe is good. Could depend on the genres at hand. If you approach a techno artist with an electro track to be remixed you are not going to get a remix. Some genres can crossover but most techno guys who are die hard techno are not going to step out of those lines. You can definitely get some good guys for under the $400 mark, but lots of times it depends on their work load. finally if you go to some people for remixes and hey don't make their own music you are usually getting hit with a double fee. The said "producer" needs to go to his ghost writer to make their track, so they end up tacking that fee on as well. Do I believe that is is effective for you to pay for a remix? It definitely can be worth it for you. If you have a good track you will get some more exposure out of it. If your track sucks it doesn't help in getting people to like your music, but your name will still get out there if the remix is good. If your track is good though then it could possibly help with the sales of your track... It just a risk you need to take, unfortunately there is no set formula in this industry. |
| Nikole Resende 05.08.2013 | First of all, I believe your price estimates are VERY optimistic... Professionell mastering of you tracks will cost you about 50$/track, and that is just for the mastering engineer sitting down for anything between 15 and 60 minutes to lay the finishing touches on you track. I don't believe many artists will be willing to work on a remix for several hours/days for just 100$ - 400$... Regarding your pros/cons:
Originally Posted by MarioMHJV
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| Danae Dumler 05.08.2013 | <disclaimer>purely talking out my ass as someone who doesn't have any tracks worth remixing</disclaimer> If I wanted someone to remix my tracks and they agreed to, hell yes I would pay them for their work. But I would want to be talking to them in the first place because (a) I like what they would do with my track or (b) they like my track enough to want to do their thing with it. If the only reason I was talking to the person in the first place was because they were offering to remix tracks for a fee -- I'd pass. |
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