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The People's Remix Competition 358 PRCv14-20 Hello everyone and Welcome to the People's Remix Competition! Welcome to PRC358. In PRC356 two remixers managed to get the first place. Both Arcana and Flurry of Flames got first place. Only Flurry of Flames submitted a source for this round, so this round will have, as usual, one source. Source: Pokemon Colosseum - Pyrite Town (GameCube) MIDI Source Information ThaSauce link: Click here to submit To submit a song at the compo page you can use the ThaSauce page. If you use this, an account is required. If you don't want to use ThaSauce, please upload the song somewhere else and post a download link in this thread. I recommend Soundcloud, don't forget to allow downloads to enable me to upload the song at ThaSauce. I will keep using ThaSauce as the place where all songs are located. If you want to use ThaSauce, the following steps should be done. Click the ThaSauce Link. Click the 'You are not logged in' button in the upper right. Click on 'register' (at the bottom). Read the terms and click 'I agree to these terms'. If you don't agree with them, upload the song somewhere else and post a download link as mentioned above (by doing that, you allow me to upload the song at ThaSauce. Continue the process by filling in your information. You will get a question to confirm that you're not a robot. Here are some possible answers: Name a compo: PRC Who organizes One Hour Compo: Starla Name a ThaSauce subdomain: compo.thasauce.net Who created Mega Mans: Capcom A confirmation mail will be send. There might be some issues with it (meaning that you don't get it), if that is the case, upload the song somewhere else as described above. Once registered, login with your username and password, go to the mentioned page and submit the song. If you want submit two or more songs you can create multiple ThaSauce accounts or upload the song somewhere else and post the download link. After uploading your song, please check if your song plays and can be downloaded and played without problems. Only upload MP3 files. PRC instructions The deadline is Friday October 6th 2017 at 7:59 pm ThaSauce time (15:00 UTC, 16:00 GMT), check the ThaSauce page for the exact time left. Make sure that the song is uploaded to ThaSauce or that there’s a download link posted in this thread. 45 Hour extension. You may enter as many mixes as you like and work with as many people as you like on each mix. You are free to create a second ThaSauce account for that if you use ThaSauce, it's needed to be able to upload a second remix if you use ThaSauce. Of course you can also upload it somewhere else and put a download link in this thread. Do not make qualitative comments on an entry until the results of the vote have been posted in this thread. Mixers cannot vote for themselves but if they vote they receive a free first place vote added onto their score. The winner of this round may select the source for PRC360. The winner of PRC356 who picked this source, Flurry of Flames, can only participate by submitting a Bonus Mix. His vote is doubled in the voting stage. Arcana can enter, but if he doesn't enter but does vote, his vote is doubled. You can find the full rules list at this page as well. GOOD LUCK! PRC ThaSauce Home Page!

Show that cold who's boss

EXTENSION - aiming to get at least 3 subs so the vote is not awash. Might mean I'll have to compete. Been fighting a cold, but we'll see Deadline: September 26th Tues @ 1PM Vote Ends: September 28th Thurs @ 11PM

The only thing I can add is composing for production libraries or original scores for different kinds of media. In either case, orchestral and hybrid music is the most in-demand, but also the most expensive to create (those high-end sample libraries and requisite computing power don't come cheap) and may not be your thing(?) Regardless, stock music that is used in advertising can be very lucrative if you have a popular track and/or get placements in big advertisements. Probably the biggest are movie trailers, but the trouble there is that most of this music requires you to be, at once, terribly generic and still somehow different enough from the convention to stand out. Competition is fierce. Best you can do is find libraries like position, liquid cinema, etc. and submit a portfolio when they are accepting them and see what happens. You can try doing it yourself through places like AudioJungle, but these places generally offer mediocre deals (to put it lightly) and there is so much crap that it's hard for a potential licensing opportunity to find you: It's basically where people who failed to get into the big leagues go to die; harsh as it sounds. The next one is composing for films, games, TV. I'd seriously consider it since you're in BC and TV and film are popular there; I'm actually working on a short film from Vancouver atm. Of course, finding paid gigs can be tricky and you'll have to accept garbage gigs that pay nothing in order to get anywhere at all in the beginning — those IMDB credits matter. The only way to get into this is to get out there and meet people and other composers in the business (perhaps most gigs come about by referral!), perhaps become an assistant to an established composer, etc...all combined with a considerable amount of luck. I know that, obviously given this site, video games are popular and I've seen many articles that brand them as the great frontier of opportunity for composers, but it has been my experience for the better part of a decade now that this is quite far from the truth, I'd actually argue that it's more difficult to get into, but I'll not elaborate so as to not go on a huge rant. I wouldn't focus on it specifically, is what I'm saying.

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I get basically all my music work from one of two places, session work and teaching. Teaching is basically irrelevant to what you want to do so I'll leave it out completely. The other thing is session work. At this point I've all but abandoned arranging and composition of music in my career due to factors that make those areas really unattractive to me right now. Generally I just record horn, but I also do stuff on trumpet and trombones as needed. As a result I get a decent amount of work, not enough to survive off of but then again I'm not aiming to survive off that work, and as a result I'm not regularly and actively seeking it out. (most of my time goes to teaching, and that's where my income comes from). Upside is that I get to pick and choose what jobs I take, downside is that it isn't going in the direction I would like yet. But it has led to some fun projects that have been decently successful, and it does add to the resume. I've known of plenty of people who entered the industry as a session musician, then after building that reputation could move on to more of a frontman role in either performance or also arranging/composition. One example is trumpet player Wayne Bergeron who was active as a performer from the early 80s until releasing his first album in like 2002. During this time, however, he established himself as the go to lead trumpet player and recorded on many projects for quite a few big names. By the time he wanted to make his own album, he already knew so many people that he recorded with that finding people to perform on his album was relatively easy, and his reputation as a performer removed the "proving himself" phase of being a solo artist. A lot of music is who you know, and it is no different being a teacher, solo artist, sideman, or composer. If you aren't really well known for anything, then it's really difficult to get known. But if you play guitar/bass/horn/what have you for somebody who has a reputation, then that's a credit on your name. Enough of these credits and people know you from one area or another, and then you can start building a thing. By the time he recorded his album, Bergeron had already had something like 250 credits to his name with big names in the industry, as well as recording on quite a few movie soundtracks. Similarly, Jerry Hey became really popular as an arranger for Quincy Jones, Earth Wind, and Fire, and other names like that. His experience as a trumpet player led to arranging work which opened that door. There are plenty of musicians on youtube that are REALLY great musicians, but they average 50 views a video, and maybe have 10 subscribers. On the other hand, there are some musicians who really aren't that great, but they get 70k views a video and have 20k subscribers. Difference? People know who they are. Other difference? Marketing. Some of the ones with basically no views and no subs are not really sticking out. If there are 1500 guitarists all doing fairly similar metal covers of Megaman music, nobody is going to look through all 1500 of them. A good majority of those will stay in obscurity no matter how good they are. A lot of this may or may not apply to you, but for a question like this, any thoughts given help because of new perspective. As for starting your career as a recording artist, I don't really have many thoughts because I've never tried to do that, and don't forsee it happening in the near future in my own career, so I've never really looked into what it takes exactly.

Allllllrighty tis done

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I for one have one arrangement fully done aside from some mixing One just needs to have me record more guitars to and then sing over.

Never posted my studio in this thread before but I did just invest in an Auralex kit I want to show off. Studio/man cave complete with retro 90's lighting for those mandatory 12 hour 16 bit binges. ...yes that's a cheap Walmart folding table I'm using as a desk for the time being.