By dj_2xL
Wed Sep 15, 2004 3:07 am
I was browsing through the FP forums a while back and stumbled upon this.Shondrae from the FutureProducer forums posted this....hope he dont mind.
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The thing i tell so many young producers is you have to have a contract with anything you do when selling tracks to artist no matter how big or small, you have to be published with ascap/bmi/or seasac, and get all your tracks copyrighted, then start your own production company....when starting out, if a artist aproaches you and likes your music, setup a date where you can all meet and discuss several different things.....there are all kinds of formats that you can present to a potential buyer (.wav files, tracking or composing the beat in the studio, dumping the track from the cd into pro-tools,cubase,sonar or whatever sequencer the studio has) what the track does or doesnt do should depend on the artist.....if the artist wants the song to fade in the closing... then that is what should happen...the track doesnt have to be mixed down if you are creating the track in the studio before the recording of the vocals.....but must be somewhat mixed at the appropriate levels if you are dumping it into the sequencer from the cd....because you dont want to spend alot of time trying to turn the track up or down as a whole because its too loud or too soft under or over the lyrics and chorus. when creating and mixing a track make sure your main melody and leads are the loudest, your snare, drums, and your bass lines are in the medium level, and your counter rythyms and things like that should be at the lowest levels and at times louder...you can track the whole thing with your production equipment of choice and record your drops and changes then burn it to cd...its all about what the artist wants..whether he wants to go to the studio and track the instrumental one instrument at a time or just buy the whole beat to just rap over ...as far as contracts....
First of all you can look at this simple, basic, but legal producer for hire contract for young producers like yourself that you can use until you start dealing with more proffessional recording artist and record companies..nothing special but its binding............you will own half the copyright, and you get your money either all upfront or half before you start tracking and the other half when you finish the final mix.......your call.
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Producer for Hire Agreement
Producer or Production company name
I. Terms
1. This is a Production Agreement this day of ____,2002,
between the Master Producer(you)(production company)______ and the Undersigned Artist_________.
II. Artist Service and Obligations
2 . The Artist has signed a recording contract with the following Record Company
_____ Records, and the date of the contract was_______2002,
3. In this Production Agreement, the Master Producer(you or your production company) is a work for hire for only one recording.
4. Artist promises to pay Master Producer(or production company) the following payment of the amount of
$______ for the duration of one recording.
(A)song title_____________
(b) copyright #_________
(c)publishing company( affiliation )ASCAP/BMI/ or SESAC________
5 Artist promises to make payments to Master Producer(or production company)
(A) 50% of producer fee shall be given at the signing of this production agreement and another 50% shall be given after the commencement of the final mix....(you can get 100% upfront if you want your call)
6. This Production Agreement hereby requests, instructs, authorizes, and empowers Record Company(in your case the artist) to pay Master Producer(or production company) all producer fees agreed upon.
III. Miscellaneous
7. This Production Agreement can and will be used in a court of law (city, state) in the event that there is a breach of these contractual provisions.
8. By signing this Agreement you(artist) hereby grant our publshing designee 50% of your share of world-wide copyrights for this recording.
9.The duration of this agreement commences as of the date of the contact between the Artist and the Master Producer(production company) ____ ,2002.
10. In witness where of we have entered into this written agreement as of the date above,
witness signs this day of ________________,2002.
Witness:_______________________
Master Producer: (you,or production company)___________
11. You have read and understood this Agreement and by signing in the space provided below, agree to be bound by the provisions hereof.
Agreed to and accepted.........
Artist______________________
.
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The thing i tell so many young producers is you have to have a contract with anything you do when selling tracks to artist no matter how big or small, you have to be published with ascap/bmi/or seasac, and get all your tracks copyrighted, then start your own production company....when starting out, if a artist aproaches you and likes your music, setup a date where you can all meet and discuss several different things.....there are all kinds of formats that you can present to a potential buyer (.wav files, tracking or composing the beat in the studio, dumping the track from the cd into pro-tools,cubase,sonar or whatever sequencer the studio has) what the track does or doesnt do should depend on the artist.....if the artist wants the song to fade in the closing... then that is what should happen...the track doesnt have to be mixed down if you are creating the track in the studio before the recording of the vocals.....but must be somewhat mixed at the appropriate levels if you are dumping it into the sequencer from the cd....because you dont want to spend alot of time trying to turn the track up or down as a whole because its too loud or too soft under or over the lyrics and chorus. when creating and mixing a track make sure your main melody and leads are the loudest, your snare, drums, and your bass lines are in the medium level, and your counter rythyms and things like that should be at the lowest levels and at times louder...you can track the whole thing with your production equipment of choice and record your drops and changes then burn it to cd...its all about what the artist wants..whether he wants to go to the studio and track the instrumental one instrument at a time or just buy the whole beat to just rap over ...as far as contracts....
First of all you can look at this simple, basic, but legal producer for hire contract for young producers like yourself that you can use until you start dealing with more proffessional recording artist and record companies..nothing special but its binding............you will own half the copyright, and you get your money either all upfront or half before you start tracking and the other half when you finish the final mix.......your call.
===============================================
Producer for Hire Agreement
Producer or Production company name
I. Terms
1. This is a Production Agreement this day of ____,2002,
between the Master Producer(you)(production company)______ and the Undersigned Artist_________.
II. Artist Service and Obligations
2 . The Artist has signed a recording contract with the following Record Company
_____ Records, and the date of the contract was_______2002,
3. In this Production Agreement, the Master Producer(you or your production company) is a work for hire for only one recording.
4. Artist promises to pay Master Producer(or production company) the following payment of the amount of
$______ for the duration of one recording.
(A)song title_____________
(b) copyright #_________
(c)publishing company( affiliation )ASCAP/BMI/ or SESAC________
5 Artist promises to make payments to Master Producer(or production company)
(A) 50% of producer fee shall be given at the signing of this production agreement and another 50% shall be given after the commencement of the final mix....(you can get 100% upfront if you want your call)
6. This Production Agreement hereby requests, instructs, authorizes, and empowers Record Company(in your case the artist) to pay Master Producer(or production company) all producer fees agreed upon.
III. Miscellaneous
7. This Production Agreement can and will be used in a court of law (city, state) in the event that there is a breach of these contractual provisions.
8. By signing this Agreement you(artist) hereby grant our publshing designee 50% of your share of world-wide copyrights for this recording.
9.The duration of this agreement commences as of the date of the contact between the Artist and the Master Producer(production company) ____ ,2002.
10. In witness where of we have entered into this written agreement as of the date above,
witness signs this day of ________________,2002.
Witness:_______________________
Master Producer: (you,or production company)___________
11. You have read and understood this Agreement and by signing in the space provided below, agree to be bound by the provisions hereof.
Agreed to and accepted.........
Artist______________________
.