1 year 9 months since Taxi membership.....

[CHuckmott]

Just keeping a count going into the New Year, since April of 2012, I currently have 99 tracks registered with ASCAP (yes I register all my own tracks despite the fact that most libraries do their own registration). 55 are unique tracks, with 44 alternate versions. Hope to double that number this year. If I had kept track of all the simple alternates I've done, would have many more (i.e. all the drum and bass tracks the libraries seem to ask for, etc). HAooy New Year and here's to a productive New Year. Here's a question to go along with the above: I've heard suggested that some folks make alternate versions ( I don't necessarily mean completely reversions for example with a new melody but rather making 15-30-60 second versions, stingers, No melody, simple stems) and some guys report being fairly successful in doing this, to the point where they don't necessarily need or want to crank out a track or two a day. Was kind of personally impressed with one person saying they make around 40 K a year working this way with, alternates aside, what amounts to be 150 - 200 unique tracks. Of course his quality speaks for itself. Thoughts?

[HowardBHC]

This is a smart practice and gives you the ability to leverage each song in your catalog to get the most out of it. Alternate mixes and remixing of any track you have can increases odds of finding it a placement (assuming the track that is getting cut up and remixed / arranged has a solid foundation to work from)

[ceedub]

In my experience, there's no question that making alternate versions is worth my time. It often takes only a small percentage of the overall time per track to make several alts. Sometimes, my alts get several placements and the full versions get none. You never know.

Income per track is really difficult to predict. It varies based on the library, genre, quality of the placements (network/show), quality of the track, wind direction, etc. Having said that, $40K/year for 150 signed instrumental tracks sounds quite high to me. $40K/year for 150 placements is possible, but even in that case, you'd have to have lots of really good placements,

Best of luck in 2014.

[CHuckmott]

He's a top notch guy though, and he said with his alts his tracks number 800 or so.....he did say though that particular in the royally frees he sells more that way. The others in my experience so far ask for the alts they want. Some folks who know I am referencing more then likely.