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Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 10:32 am
by Cameloide
Since I've been ragging on the quality of Taxi's feedback lately I figured it's only fair to praise them when the system does some good for us. We submitted this song to 4 briefs so far, getting 2 forwards and 2 rejections. One rejection was for being slightly off target, and the other was a valid critique about the overpowering low end (on an earlier mix, which I eventually noticed and fixed but it was too late to update for the submission). One of the forwards (i think to this brief S201024AM) led to the song getting signed to a library we hadn't worked with yet, so that was nice.

https://s.disco.ac/rtgyowfxbswi

So for anyone curious, in the 1st 6 months of joining Taxi we've submitted -

18 songs to 33 briefs with 6 forwards (1 song forwarded twice) and so far that's resulted in 2 songs getting signed to 2 different libraries we haven't worked with before and 0 placements.

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:49 pm
by DBarnett
Nice track Cameloide,
Congrats on the signings
I'd say you're doing better than most, 6 months in
Are these all real instruments? If you don't mind me asking, they sounds real to me :D
I'm sure you've heard that this is a long haul game, you have a good jump start so stay with it
Peace!!

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:39 pm
by Cameloide
DBarnett wrote:
Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:49 pm
Nice track Cameloide,
Congrats on the signings
I'd say you're doing better than most, 6 months in
Are these all real instruments? If you don't mind me asking, they sounds real to me :D
I'm sure you've heard that this is a long haul game, you have a good jump start so stay with it
Peace!!
Thanks for the encouragement Dave! Yes, it's a slow process...I got that much figured out at least.

The piano & mellotron were recorded midi using Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol sounds. The
bass was recorded di into the Positive Grid BiasFx2 plugin (though now I am using Neural Dsp
Archetype amp sims and they are incredible!). The electric guitars are a mix of di through the Bias
amp plugin and a Jet City Pico Valve amp. Drums, acoustic guitar and banjo were all recorded
the old fashion way...with mics.

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2021 5:48 pm
by DBarnett
Very cool indeed! Thanks for letting us in on your production, that's very interesting
Cheers!

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:06 pm
by IanShortfall
Nice work, love the track, and I think you are doing above average for your first 6 months of taxi... good work :)

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 2:51 pm
by johnnyrowing
Congratulations.

I like your track. It is easy to see why it was forwarded and signed.

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:53 pm
by irthlingz
Congratulations! Also, thanks for the peek at the tech behind the creativity!

Re: Americana Forward leads to Library signing

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:34 pm
by LamarPecorino
Congratulations on the forward! Great job!