Music businesses - related services

[AlChuck]

Hey all,

Anyone out there doing any composing/studio engineering/voice overs, etc?

I'm thinking about starting a small side business to do whatever I can do in and around music and my home recording rig. Diversify or die, they all say, so I'm thinking of offering all kinds of ancillary services like transferring people's older demos from tape to CD and MP3, that sort of stuff.

Anyone do that? How do you charge for it? Do you have a rate sheet or do you just quote some large figure that you know is more than enough and only take on the job if someone's willing to pay it?

Thanks in advance...

 

[bdbdbuck]

AlChuck,
I think it's a good idea, especially since I have been kinda thinking about having a tape put on cd.

I've got a 1/2" grand master from the 70's, I think it's an 8 track.....I don't even know for sure what's on it. I would like to have those individual tracks on a cd as .wav files. Can you do that?



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[AlChuck]

Wow, a potential client already...

Sorry, though, I have very little in the way of equipment, certainly no 8-track 1/2" machine. All I can do is cassette or stereo 1/4" reel-to-reel or VHS (I can digitize the video too) or LP or 4-track cassette.

I suspect it's possible to rent such a machine locally, but then the cost might be exorbitant.

 

[bdbdbuck]

Thanks anyway Al,
It's been so long since I've been around any analog equipment, I don't know if anyone even has one of those dinosaurs sittin around. Most of the local studios advertise having 2" 24 track analog equipment.....I'm sure everything eventually gets digitized without anyone even giving thought to a 8 track analog machine.



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