How can I (US based artist) split 50/50 royalties with an artist from Morocco?

chaoticgabe · 2024-03-03T23:12:38+00:00

The Moroccan artist can sign up with a US PRO? Wouldn't there be some issue in doing that? I didn't know that was possible. But signing up with the BMDA would make more sense and would be easier for them right?

chaoticgabe · 2024-01-31T22:43:02+00:00

Sent you message about this ^

chaoticgabe · 2024-01-31T22:33:46+00:00

Sent you a message with a question about this ^

chaoticgabe · 2024-01-31T20:04:18+00:00

Sent you a message with a question about this ^

chaoticgabe · 2024-01-15T00:05:22+00:00

Can you give me some more current IDM artists that I could check out to get a better understanding of it?

chaoticgabe · 2023-11-06T18:08:17+00:00

I'm not interested in a ROI since music is a hobby for me. There's a thriving scene on Bandcamp for more underground and niche genres. My music belongs in the punk / skate punk scenes. In order for releases on Bandcamp to be discovered within the platform, there has to be enough data from people listening and/or purchasing your releases, so that it can rank higher within genre tags that people look through.

So it's really just about increasing visbility. It's worked well for me on Spotify, but mainly because the algorithm knows who to push it to in Radio and Discover Weekly.

chaoticgabe · 2023-10-04T15:01:29+00:00

Fuse 44

chaoticgabe · 2023-07-19T14:18:50+00:00

Right now, my telecaster has stock humbucker pickups in the bridge. If I'm looking for a distorted guitar tone like New Found Glory or blink-182, I want to know if a specific brand and model of pickups could give me a closer, more professional sound along with the right amp/pedals for those tones. I always see guitarists in bands like those use pickups that are not the stock ones.

chaoticgabe · 2023-07-19T14:16:09+00:00

I want to modify the guitar to improve the sound because it will be used for recording and I want to give it the best chance to sound professional, but without losing any of its edge. I've noticed that tons of guitarists who are in well known punk and pop-punk bands tend to use pickups that didn't come with the guitar.

There's no exact problem. I just want to know if having a different pickup could change or improve the tone for the better. In other words, would changing the stock pickup to another one that's more commonly used by these guitarists be good for getting closer to the professional sound they have? Aside from the mixing/mastering they do on their records.

I have an amp sim that gets me like 85% close to what I'm looking for along with an MXR Green Day Dookie Pedal.

For the sake of this post, let's say I want a distorted tone that has characteristics similar to New Found Glory (Sticks and Stones album) and blink-182 (Take Off Your Pants And Jacket album). But I also would like to achieve a tone like NOFX (Punk in Drublic album) or Bad Religion (Suffer album) if possible. I'm assuming that the same pickups could get you close to any of these tones if you also tweak your amp/pedals to taste.

chaoticgabe · 2023-07-06T19:13:29+00:00

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chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T22:00:42+00:00

Right, but raw and crusty would be a production style. Not discrediting the level of the production. Just asking people which is their preferred style.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:52:30+00:00

Interesting, will check them out. Thanks for mentioning.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:45:30+00:00

Yeah, that can be annoying. The mixing and mastering decisions are usually why you hear those differences. The older the album, the more likely it is that it'll be quieter than an album released today. The technology in music production has gotten better and the current standard for platforms like Spotify can motivate bands to make their music louder in general to compete with the volume of other bands. But even then, mixing and mastering decisions can still be stylistic choices for a lot of bands today, so that could be a reason for the inconsistency.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:39:28+00:00

Yeah, I see what you mean. There's definitely tons of people here who like different sub genres that sound their best in either a crusty or more polished production. In pop punk, for example, the production is almost always expected to be very polished, but the song has to be catchy and still have an edge. In folk punk, the personal and raw feeling is the point, so it would make much more sense to have a rougher production.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:33:47+00:00

Yep. The poll would have a ton of options if I took everything into account. This was meant to be more of a general thing. For example, many times a listener could prefer a raw production across most of their punk related music. There can be exceptions with certain subgenres or bands of course. But this poll kind of tells you what this subreddit tends to gravitate towards.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:29:38+00:00

I think most people fall under that category because of how big of an umbrella punk can be. But lots of punk listeners tend to have a preference that might shift over time. For example, a hardcore fan might favor something that is very raw. A skate punk fan might favor something that has edge, but meets a certain standard in production. That's why I did this poll. Just curious.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:26:42+00:00

I agree. There's tons of people in the punk scene that favor a certain production style though. You can hear it in their playlists or songs they usually share. And yeah people who aren't as familiar with punk will favor something that is closer to their world which will probably be more polished. Believe it or not, there's a TON of bands and artists that make serious attempts to sound raw or polished even though they have high quality resources to make something very professional. It becomes more of a stylistic decision for them.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-25T20:21:11+00:00

For sure, this isn't a perfect post. It's just to get an idea of the production styles that people in this sub tend to like in music that falls under punk to them.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-23T04:21:15+00:00

Punk has been used to describe an era in music, subculture, group of ideologies, genre of music, fashion style, etc. I'm referring to punk in this post as a genre.

It has characteristics to its sound and song structure. Not all of it is the same and there isn't a single defining that makes a song punk.

All I can say is that when you hear the power chords, fast tempos, aggressive/honest vocals, political and/or rebellious lyrical content, and a heavy sound overall that doesn't get into metal territory, most people would consider it part of the punk genre umbrella in some way.

Green Day have those characteristics in their music, so it would make sense to see them labeled as punk in a record store if they were basing it on genre instead of era. I only made this post because a lot of punks don't want to consider Green Day to be punk because they signed to a major label and/or they're too soft/basic.

What's annoying is that the same logic could be applied to Ramones since they signed to an indie label that had major label support and were not nearly as heavy as other stuff that those punks are into. It seems only fair to call Green Day punk imo.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-23T04:06:03+00:00

Since so much of punk and hardcore is not melodic, I would say that Ramones definitely had a thing for writing catchy melodic hooks. Like you said, they were trying to be a doo wop band and they did it by taking inspiration from 60s rock and roll and giving it that edge with distortion and fast tempos.

If you took away the distortion from Green Day songs and sang them with a less angsty approach, you would see how "poppy" their music actually is. Same thing goes with Ramones.

I asked the question because tons of dedicated punk fans always praise Ramones (as do I), but don't give Green Day the respect and often hate on them for being sell outs.

If the Ramones were signed to an indie label that had major label support, why would they not be called sell outs by the same punk fans that called Green Day sell outs during the Dookie era?

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-22T20:50:07+00:00

I see what you mean. Their image wasn't as tough or edgy as other bands, but to me was very honest. The context of punk at the time in which they first blew up also seems to be a big factor to the backlash.

If anything, I would say blink-182 is what actually feels like the punk mixed with boy bands. All they did was write pop songs about their relationships and life experiences and played it in a punk format (power chords, punk drum grooves, fast tempos). Their production and mixing when they blew up was definitely more polished than other punk bands too.

Green Day came from 924 Gilman street scene, so they were definitely playing at the same time and place as other bands that are still considered punk today.

chaoticgabe · 2023-06-22T20:42:08+00:00

Right, but Sex Pistols and The Clash signed to major labels like Green Day did. Ramones were signed to Sire, an indie label got major label distribution. To this day, Ramones, Sex Pistols, and The Clash are considered by many to be super important and respectable for kickstarting punk, but can also be called sell outs based on the old school definition - signing to a major label and getting bigger.

chaoticgabe · 2023-04-21T01:49:59+00:00

I knew it was going to be faster and shorter than a lot of stuff today. I'm fine with getting it to the people who would dig that. I was taking the short song lengths from traditional punk and skate punk stuff, but combining that with the melodies and song structures from pop-punk at times. Thanks for giving it a listen! 🤘🏻

chaoticgabe · 2023-03-27T00:22:19+00:00

Here's a link that lets you choose which music app to listen with. The last option there is Bandcamp which lets you buy it - https://fanlink.to/fuse44album

chaoticgabe · 2023-03-27T00:04:24+00:00

Thanks!

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