Music Records

There are mix tapes and remixes all over music blogs these days (sites like Camel Back Music and Remix Nation) done by artists on all four of the major labels (Universal, Sony, Warner, EMI) I’ve never downloaded anything illegal and don’t plan to, but from my understanding, you can download songs for free if its done independently by the artist without the aid of the record label. If I’m not correct, can someone clarify this for me?

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I’m an aspiring music producer, and I had a management group that wanted to submit my music to warner brothers records, but, they said that I needed to work on the mixing of the beats.

what are the settings for top quality mixing? how do I make it so when I make beats they are being mixed at the highest quality possible, and how would I know it? do I need to go to audio production school? so frustrating…

The best place to learn about mixing music for free is to join a community of sound engineers and pick their brains… check out http://www.audioneeds.com <- that’s my favorite one.

Going to school wouldn’t hurt either. There are tons of schools out there that are great!

It was on time warner cables on demand under the rock catergory. I can not find it anywhere I have played many videos. It also says on there we won’t make the sam mistakes are our ancestors or fathers something like that. I don’t remember the song much but that music video stuck in my brian. I am using that quote for a paper I am writing but I can not remember the exact quote and the artist’s name.
that is the same thing that I see on my on demand. Time warner cable said they took it down yet refuses to acknowledge the song name. They are censoring this song possibly so they will not help.
It might still be there it was in the same catergory as Bon Jovi and Breaking Benjman but I played all the videos and none of them matched.
I watched it thinking it could possibly get censored.
I found it; it is Anti-Flag; when all the lights go out and the quote is I am free from the mistakes of my elders.

sorry i tried looking for you, but here’s the website, http://www.twondemand.com/free/resultsall.aspx?pageId=80&pageMode=listgrid&type=service&id=29 scroll down to the pure rock and see if you see it.

So this might be a stupid question… I was wondering if there is any difference between a "record label" and a "music publishing company"

The specific situation I am wondering about is this:
I was on the Warner/Chappell Music website, they claim to be a "music publishing company", a division of Warner Bros. Music. Makes sense.
And the company lists Kevin Rudolf as one of their artists… They posted a recently published album of his on their website.. but under "label" it says Cash Money Records…. which is the part I am confused by.. shouldn’t their label be Warner??…

I noticed a bunch of their artists have random labels listed, like Capitol, Reprise, Interscope, Fueled By Ramen… etc.. now, i know some of these are owned by Warner.. but others (like Cash Money Records and Capitol) are completely unrelated to Warner..

if anyone took the time to read and understand that.. haha can you help me out?

Recording contracts and Publishing contracts are two completely separate contracts.
I’m sorry to say that your first answerer is incorrect.
You sign a contract with a record company concerning the recorded sound and the distribution of it.
You sign a PUBLISHING contract for the WRITTEN FORM of the music such as sheet music and books.
The two deals are completely separate.
So a songwriter can sign a contract with a PUBLISHER and never actually work in a band, go into a studio or ever go away on tour (Yep, I am one and thats what I do)
Publishers will take their clients work and present it to record companies for their solo acts to perform (You know the ones that dont have bands? Like Celine Dion etc…)
Record companies will also contact Publishers to see if they might have some material that is suitable for one of their acts to record, OR they might ask the publisher to have one of their clients WRITE a song for one of the rec comp clients.

Another thing that was wrong in the other answer was the collection of royalties, that isnt done by EITHER the rec or the pub company. I live in Aust. Here that is undertaken by APRA the Aust performers rights association. Each country has its own, but its NOT done by either rec or pub!!!

Artists quite frequently have deals with separate companies, you sign with whoever offers you the best contract, the best deal and the best rate.
Some rec companies have branched into publishing as well but that doesnot mean its the best option for you and you really SHOULDNT do it.
Some MAJOR record companies are now INSISTING that their acts sign BOTH contracts with them, If they dont agree to sign up to both then the record company wont sign them at all.
It is BEST to NOT have both contracts with exactly the same company. EVER!

All the best
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So this might be a stupid question… I was wondering if there is any difference between a "record label" and a "music publishing company"

The specific situation I am wondering about is this:
I was on the Warner/Chappell Music website, they claim to be a "music publishing company", a division of Warner Bros. Music. Makes sense.
And the company lists Kevin Rudolf as one of their artists… They posted a recently published album of his on their website.. but under "label" it says Cash Money Records…. which is the part I am confused by.. shouldn’t their label be Warner??…

I noticed a bunch of their artists have random labels listed, like Capitol, Reprise, Interscope, Fueled By Ramen… etc.. now, i know some of these are owned by Warner.. but others (like Cash Money Records and Capitol) are completely unrelated to Warner..

if anyone took the time to read and understand that.. haha can you help me out?

The music business as it’s always been is changing drastically. In an attempt to survive many Record Labels have become absorbed into Music Publishing companies that may own many different record labels. One of the giants in the Music business, EMI, http://www.emimusic.com/about/ – owns many different record labels. It almost seems like each new genre requires a new record label to support it. Anyway, most traditional record labels are in trouble financially today because, there are few radio stations playing the top 40 hits these days, and the seems to be much confusion about who the authority is on what songs are even in the top 40. People are not listening to the radio anymore because now they listen to the music they download and put on their iPod and more and more independent artists are becoming well known through the Internet and have no need for a record label to promote them. Many of the big names in music, like Madonna, are becoming an independent artist because the get to keep their rights all the rights to their music and and earn a much larger percentage of the gross sales.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I82rdaaiUE
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+the+music+industry+is+changing&aq=f

I don’t want to be a singer, I want to sell my songs to Warner Bros.
Who do I contact? – - – An Executive? A Director? What is the title?

Also – I have already copyrighted my lyrics, my recordings, and the piano music behind the lyrics, so I could probably just send them an email of my contact information, my bio, my copyright information, and my mp3, right?

Thanks!
I’ve heard I’m supposed to get an attorney to present. Isn’t that expensive! I thought getting it copyrighted was expensive enough!

Do a poor mans copy write, put it in an envelope and send it to yourself then don’t open it and put it in a save…boom copy write done.

Next you’re not going to get anywhere with an executive with any major record label until you are signed with a performing rights company You need to apply for ASCAP, BMI, SESAC,or Sound Exchange. You can only be a member of one so research them and choose wisely because it is a two year commitment.

If a label Likes your work then they may sign you to a publishing deal where you write exclusively for them.

I just don’t understand how running the needle over the disk would make it play music.

Sound is all about vibrations which travel through the air as waves. To understand how records are played back, take a moment to think about what happens when sound waves reach your ears…they vibrate a diaphragm called your ear drum.

When the earliest recordings were made, there was a diaphragm which vibrated when sound waves bounced against it….much like an ear drum. These vibrations were transferred to a cutting needle which cut vibrations into the grooves of a record. In this way, an image of actual sound waves was copied into the grooves of the record. Later on, this technology improved to use electronics and microphones, but the result was the same….sound waves cut into the grooves of vinyl.

Playback was simply the reverse process. A needle running through the grooves would bounce and transfer the waves to an amplifying device. In the electric phonographs, the needle was mounted to a cartridge that acted like a microphone. The vibrations were converted to electrical signals and sent through an amplifier and speakers. And what are speakers? Yup, they’re big diaphragms that vibrate to create sound waves.

When I was a kid…back in the dark ages of the 1960’s, somebody had built an ingenious record player for our school library. Instead of electronics, the playback needle was mounted to a stethoscope. The head of the stethoscope was mounted on the turntable’s arm, and connected to tubing with ear pieces.

Actually, when you play back a recording, if you put your ear very close to the needle, you can hear the sound as the needle passes through the grooves. The electronics and diaphragms are simply ways to amplify the sound.

I hope I haven’t made this sound too complicated…it’s really a primitive analog process. Sometimes I think it’s harder to understand how you get music out of CDs….just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s.