What To Do When Someone In Your Area Is Charging $5 Per Song

Chris (0:30)

I agree.

Brian Hood (0:31)

I always talk you up so much on the podcast intro, I was like, you know what, I'm gonna switch it up this week. I'm gonna talk highly of myself, and I'm just gonna shoot you down, Chris. How are you doing this week, pleb?

Chris (0:39)

I'm great, awesome guy.

Brian Hood (0:44)

Awesome, dude, you're doing so good so far.

Chris (0:46)

I'm great, honestly. So one of the things that I love about our friendship is that sometimes we'll be like, yeah, let's go record a podcast episode, and then we just end up talking about each other's businesses.

Brian Hood (0:55)

That's what we did on Tuesday.

Chris (0:57)

It was fantastic. You ripped my face off and then sewed it back on very gently, and it was great.

Brian Hood (1:02)

We were literally yelling at each other.

Chris (1:04)

It's true.

Brian Hood (1:04)

If anyone had ever heard Chris and I talk when we get passionate about business stuff, you'd be like, oh my god, guys, are you okay?

Do you need a hug? And we're just loving it. We're a positive argument. I don't know how to explain it, but we're raising our voices at each other.

Chris (1:20)

I love it. This is one of my favorite parts of any friendship I have is being able to do that with you and not wonder if we're okay.

Brian Hood (1:27)

Yeah, well, that's the, maybe we'll talk about Enneagram one day, but that's because we're both eights on the Enneagram. For those of you who know what the Enneagram is, you know exactly what we're talking about and why we would argue with each other like that and to be a positive thing.

But alas, not everyone is like that and not everyone knows what the Enneagram is, and we will not talk about it anymore on this episode.

Chris (1:44)

Hey, all right, let's turn right into the good stuff, Brian. Let's talk about our topic today.

Brian Hood (1:55)

Try again, little buddy.

Chris (1:56)

Hey, Brian, let's talk about our episode topic today. Let's talk about the things and the things, and we're going to talk about business and recording.

Brian Hood (2:02)

So today, today, I'm just going to cut you off. You're done.

Chris (2:05)

Do it, please.

Brian Hood (2:05)

You're done, sir. It's like I give you a bad intro and you become a bad co-host.

Today, we're going to talk about why you should be charging $5 for your mix. All right, Chris, what does this topic stem from? Just give the backstory here. Five dollars for full mixes, drum resampling, reamping the whole shebang. Five dollars a song.

Chris (2:30)

Yeah. So this is great. So there's this guy, Steve Simpson, who's a new member of the 6 Figure Studio Facebook community.

And he posted a question seven hours ago from when we're recording this episode.

And we're just going to read through it, because it generated a really interesting conversation. And this is something that scratched an itch, I think, for a lot of people in the podcast community, but also inflamed some passions that probably shouldn't be so inflamable. So here we go. I'm going to read the post Steve made.

Brian Hood (3:02)

Which, side note, kudos to Steve. This Facebook post has like 92 comments on it, and this is like his first post in the Facebook group. So that's a good start.

Chris (3:10)

That's pretty good. So Steve says, Okay, I just read this Craigslist ad. Am I the only one who thinks this is completely devaluing the craft, and that by whoring like this, it's making it even harder for us who are desperately trying to get paid fairly?

I'm sorry, $5 for full makes and all the cleaning, prepping, reamping, etc. is not fair pay in my book.

Brian Hood (3:30)

Okay, and I'm going to actually read the post. So this is the Craigslist post that he screenshotted and put in here.

Chris (3:35)

Can you read it in the voice that you would assume that this gentleman would use?

Brian Hood (3:38)

Yeah, I will. It's going to be my Southern voice.

Rock and metal music is all about the energy.

Let's make your song the best it can be. As an engineer, I care about your music as much as you do. Because in the past, when I was starting out, I got shot mixes from recording studios, and I know what it's like to be disappointed. I can work with anything from a two-track acoustic song to a 70-track metal mix. Prices, full mix plus guitar reamping plus sample reinforcement, $5.

Chris (4:11)