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Post by admin on Oct 24, 2020 23:09:48 GMT
Interesting interview with Steve Roach on Bandcamp. I'm amazed to find that he's been always a 100% hardware musician and has apparently never used a DAW for his music! RESPECT! daily.bandcamp.com/features/steve-roach-interviewHe also points out how empowering Bandcamp is for artists nowadays and I fully concur! I find that over 95% of my daily listening nowadays is on Bandcamp and I find an immense satisfaction from paying artists directly for their work (as much as I can afford), knowing that only a small percentage of that goes to the middle men. |
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Post by spacedog on Oct 25, 2020 11:59:33 GMT
Interesting interview with Steve Roach on Bandcamp. I'm amazed to find that he's been always a 100% hardware musician and has apparently never used a DAW for his music! RESPECT! daily.bandcamp.com/features/steve-roach-interviewHe also points out how empowering Bandcamp is for artists nowadays and I fully concur! I find that over 95% of my daily listening nowadays is on Bandcamp and I find an immense satisfaction from paying artists directly for their work (as much as I can afford), knowing that only a small percentage of that goes to the middle men. Nice interview. Steve is very generous and usually offers his new releases at "name your price" for a while.
Certainly for the styles of electronic music that I enjoy, Bandcamp is the only game in town. Listen to Star's End and it's amazing just how many of the releases have come to Chuck via Bandcamp (including our first compilation). It's primarily downloads (lossless), but you can also sell CDs if you want, it's a great system, and linked with PayPal is virtually effortless - once you have the music of course 
As someone who has releases via Bandcamp, I cannot speak highly enough of their methods and pricing. I've been involved with "real" labels in the past and I've still not received any payment for some releases up to 20 years old. My involvement with an early download platform also netted me zero revenue and my items that were selling at quite high prices. In fact, it was a combination of this and seeing CDRs of that music being offered at stupid prices, that prompted me to start using Bandcamp in the first place - I just plain undercut them all so badly, and with a superior product, that my tiny piece of their market evaporated overnight.
I now have quite a few releases across different names and Bandcamp have even dropped their 15% commission down to 10% for all of my linked accounts, which they consider to be a label. That's baked into their terms and conditions once you sell a certain amount, which I think is a nice touch. I master down to 24-bit/44.1kHz, so everyone getting access to better than CD quality - admittedly, some people still ask for CDs, although some do also ask for 96kHz files |
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Post by rockysmalls on Oct 25, 2020 16:23:11 GMT
Interesting interview with Steve Roach on Bandcamp. I'm amazed to find that he's been always a 100% hardware musician and has apparently never used a DAW for his music! RESPECT! daily.bandcamp.com/features/steve-roach-interviewHe also points out how empowering Bandcamp is for artists nowadays and I fully concur! I find that over 95% of my daily listening nowadays is on Bandcamp and I find an immense satisfaction from paying artists directly for their work (as much as I can afford), knowing that only a small percentage of that goes to the middle men. Nice interview. Steve is very generous and usually offers his new releases at "name your price" for a while.
Certainly for the styles of electronic music that I enjoy, Bandcamp is the only game in town. Listen to Star's End and it's amazing just how many of the releases have come to Chuck via Bandcamp (including our first compilation). It's primarily downloads (lossless), but you can also sell CDs if you want, it's a great system, and linked with PayPal is virtually effortless - once you have the music of course
As someone who has releases via Bandcamp, I cannot speak highly enough of their methods and pricing. I've been involved with "real" labels in the past and I've still not received any payment for some releases up to 20 years old. My involvement with an early download platform also netted me zero revenue and my items that were selling at quite high prices. In fact, it was a combination of this and seeing CDRs of that music being offered at stupid prices, that prompted me to start using Bandcamp in the first place - I just plain undercut them all so badly, and with a superior product, that my tiny piece of their market evaporated overnight.
I now have quite a few releases across different names and Bandcamp have even dropped their 15% commission down to 10% for all of my linked accounts, which they consider to be a label. That's baked into their terms and conditions once you sell a certain amount, which I think is a nice touch. I master down to 24-bit/44.1kHz, so everyone getting access to better than CD quality - admittedly, some people still ask for CDs, although some do also ask for 96kHz files question: do you have to be paying for the ‘pro’ Bandcamp to get that reduction for the digital commission to 10% ? and what sort of total revenue counts? ( pm me perhaps as that might be something that shouldn’t be out on the forum ) |
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Post by spacedog on Oct 25, 2020 21:47:37 GMT
question: do you have to be paying for the ‘pro’ Bandcamp to get that reduction for the digital commission to 10% ? and what sort of total revenue counts? ( pm me perhaps as that might be something that shouldn’t be out on the forum ) I've no problem answering here, I'm always happy to tell people how fair Bandcamp have been in paying me. No, you don't need to go to "pro" (I haven't on any of my accounts), and here is the wording for the 10% deal:
On account of your pecuniary accomplishments, namely reaching $5,000 USD in sales in the past 365 days, you are hereby awarded:
A NEW REVENUE SHARE LEVEL: 10.0%
(BT dubs, if you're part of a group that shares the same PayPal account — in other words, you're a label or label-like entity — you might've received this power-up because of a mate's sales. All together now!)
I certainly wasn't complaining |
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Post by rockysmalls on Oct 26, 2020 1:25:33 GMT
question: do you have to be paying for the ‘pro’ Bandcamp to get that reduction for the digital commission to 10% ? and what sort of total revenue counts? ( pm me perhaps as that might be something that shouldn’t be out on the forum ) I've no problem answering here, I'm always happy to tell people how fair Bandcamp have been in paying me. No, you don't need to go to "pro" (I haven't on any of my accounts), and here is the wording for the 10% deal:
On account of your pecuniary accomplishments, namely reaching $5,000 USD in sales in the past 365 days, you are hereby awarded:
A NEW REVENUE SHARE LEVEL: 10.0%
(BT dubs, if you're part of a group that shares the same PayPal account — in other words, you're a label or label-like entity — you might've received this power-up because of a mate's sales. All together now!)
I certainly wasn't complaining .. that’s terrific.. i’ve certainly done more than 5k over all the releases, and all to the same account.. just NOT within 365 days!! nearer 3 or maybe 4 years... plenty of 1000 free downloads power ups.. just nothing as useful as a drop in the BC gouge ... which is, as any fule know, the fairest gouge in all the land though, if my memory is correct 10% was the original rate ( and still is for physical stuff ) when it first started, only went up to 15, 3 or 4 years ago ... something like that, the years do slip by, could be more?? |
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