electrical wrote on Sun, 13 February 2005 20:56 |
Then ask for money. If you're truly worth it, they'll pay you. If not, then you won't get the work. A royalty still strikes me as inappropriate for someone doing the marginalia.
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Ah, yes. But therein lies the problem. The artists and bands I work with don't have anywhere near the money that it would cost to pay me for the hours I put into a project. In fact, budget is never the reason I work with a band anymore. I only work on stuff I like.
I can't help but think that if EVERYONE would see the majority of their income from a point or 2 of the record they work on, that then the quality would actually go up, because overall more effort would be put into the recording.
And people would be a bit more picky as to what they work on, instead of tryign to rape as many bands per year to make a pile of dough.
Should this come from the artists points? No. I don't think so.
But if the model was to pay the producer/engineer and mixer a "normal" hourly wage for their work, as opposed to ridiculous upfront fees, album would cost less, and be easier to recoup.
I find it nauseating to see mixers getting paid obscene amounts of money to mix a record. But as long as that current model exists, I have no problem getting points to make up for what I should have made in the first place.