Another "Vintage" listing

[BradleyHagen]

Hi Folks- Here it is::
[NEW LISTING]
VINTAGE HARD ROCK SONGS from the '90s with Male or Female Vocals are needed by a high-end Music Licensing Company that gets tons of great placements and offers a very artist-friendly deal to the people they sign!

You’ll keep 100% of the Writer’s share and 50% of the Publisher's Share!

NOTE: This Company is VERY NEW to requesting music from TAXI's members, so chances are you are not in this catalog, yet! This is a stellar opportunity to create a new industry relationship and outlet for your music with a really cool Company!

This Company is searching for a range of Mid-to-Up-Tempo Songs in the general wheelhouse of the following references:

"Them Bones" by Alice In Chains

"Give It Away" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Song 2" by Blur

"Enter Sandman" by Metallica

Quoting the Company: "We're looking for mid to up-tempo songs for bar scenes. They need pace and energy, and bonus points for Party songs."

Please submit authentically vintage Hard Rock Songs from the '90s that could be heard on a playlist with the references! Your submissions should have intense hooks, well-crafted lyrics, hard-hitting rhythms, solid arrangements, and lots of vintage sounds and motifs. Hard Rock instrumentation in the general stylistic wheelhouse of the references will work best for this request. Submissions with intense, confident, and well-performed vocals could help in getting this Company's attention. If you have some compelling Hard Rock Songs that could have sounded at home on a radio station in the 1990's, send them in!

Lyrics that avoid references to specific names, dates, times, places, brands, and profanity could make your Songs easier to place. Era-appropriate Broadcast Quality is needed.

IMPORTANT: This company is looking for Songs that were actually recorded during the 1990s, give or take a few years! They DO NOT want material that was recently recorded and made to sound old. They can only use AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, VINTAGE RECORDINGS, and only if the sound quality is reasonably good.

This Company offers a 1-year EXCLUSIVE deal, so the material you submit for this request CANNOT be signed with other publishers or catalogs. Sync fees will be split 50/50. The Publisher will get 50% of the Publisher’s share, and you’ll keep 100% of the Writer’s share and 50% of the Publisher's Share - sweet deal!!!

You must own or control your Master and Copyright to pitch for this opportunity. Please submit as many Songs as you’d like, online or per CD. Time-permitting, someone from the Company may screen some or all of the submissions. Submissions must be received no later than 11:59 PM (PDT) on Thursday, July 11th, 2024. TAXI # S240711HR

TAXI # S240711HR

OK....so I have a bunch of stuff recorded in the 90's that fits the bill, but every time I submit to something like this, they complain about the production and/or mix quality, yet they always want VINTAGE recordings.....
I mean most of it was recorded on ADATS, and sounds like crap! And how would they know whether or not I recorded something tomorrow, and made it sound like 1992?? Or went through old drives and remixed the old tracks?? (The ones that I actually transferred before permanently moving to a DAW in any case...lol)

[eandersonmusic]

Hey Bradley-
You could try and run a mix thru Ozone and see if that helps. I've done this to some old mixes and it really cleaned them up and the sound dramatically improved.. as long as the original mix is well balanced and the recording is good, it should clean up the mud and dullness and help bring it to life.
Just an idea.
-Erik

[BradleyHagen]

Yeah for sure ...but it seems like they are looking for OLD recordings, not remixes, remasters, ...etc.....
I could just use a stem splitter, remix it a little better, and run through OZONE, but doesn't it "kind of" say NOT to do that in the listing??

[AlanHall]

From my reading, the listing does not say anything about "post". As long as you're not trying to modernize the sound, cleaning and restoration of the recording (just like any other vintage work of art) should be perfectly acceptable, or - with a nod and a sly smile - expected.

You need a good product, so do what that product requires as long as the final mix doesn't include any guitar or synth tones, or compositional techniques, or engineering that would ruin its 90s pedigree. So dust it off, clean it up, de-louse it, and make it pretty without turning it into a modern/retro hybrid. JM2C

[eandersonmusic]

[BradleyHagen]

From my reading, the listing does not say anything about "post". As long as you're not trying to modernize the sound, cleaning and restoration of the recording (just like any other vintage work of art) should be perfectly acceptable, or - with a nod and a sly smile - expected.

You need a good product, so do what that product requires as long as the final mix doesn't include any guitar or synth tones, or compositional techniques, or engineering that would ruin its 90s pedigree. So dust it off, clean it up, de-louse it, and make it pretty without turning it into a modern/retro hybrid. JM2C

Sound advice Alan, and I appreciate it! I guess I have to get out a large can of delousing powder for these tracks! lol Those Blackface ADATs from the 90's do not sound exactly...well...GOOD! ha

[Gillihan]

I have a lot of tunes for the listing but they have only been produced on old school 4-track cassette (fostex) . lol I would so love to be able to redo them on my new gear and submit them... these listings drive me nuts sometimes!! good luck man!!