Want professional advice for your music?

[Sharmaji]

It is a bit embarrassing how many people have to hammer this guy about stupid stuff. It's a service being offered. You can assess it yourself and decide whether you want to do it.

As erratech said, it's like everyone has an inferiority complex!

[paradigm_x]

Funny, the amount of people who desperately want feedback and post their tunes either in the right thread or the main board, yet this doesn't seem to be seen as a good idea. Feedback on a public board is generally useless, all 'sick tune blud 320?' or "this sucks"....

$50 does seem a bit on the steep side tho, although not knocking kims abilities or anything, not read the blog.

[TM45]

not read the blog.

You should. well worth it. I'd pay more to read his blog than get him to work on my tracks ^_^

This guy really does know his stuff, and if you're willing to pay I'm pretty sure it would benefit you. I'm just not in the business of paying other people to do what i want to do

[Mushroom Buttons]

Great blog, Kim!

[Kim Lajoie]

Thanks to everyone who appreciates my blog!

-Kim.

[tavravlavish]

Inferiority complex much? Its $50 us, whats the exchange rate to the uk make that? 20 pounds or so? You can buy 3 computer music magazines for that and revel in the 5 pages of fullpage screenshots with some arrows drawn on that pass for a "masterclass", or get indepth analysis of 3 tracks and actually learn something...or you could get someone with cracked software and an untreated room to "master" your tracks so you "know what they could sound like" (Yes, ive seen people on here say that). I spose you could get 15 minutes in a studio with an engineer, but if your track is 4:30, well you do the maths

These comments remind me of the dichotomy i experience when i tell people i write electronic music for some weird reason, its either "thats really easy computers do all the work"/or/ "that must be so complicated and difficult", my reply to them is the same "its easy to do anything badly".

Tbh Im probably gonna take him up on his offer soon (once ive got some partying out of the way ), I know enough that i can fix the problems i hear, fairly efficiently id say -and my tracks holdup fairly well in A/B...but what about the things i dont even know to listen for? Ive spent a long time tuning my ears, and have a lot more tuning to go, and if someone can speed that process up even by a few percent then id be pretty foolish not to take that opportunity.

I didnt mean to rant, and i apologise, but why rip shreds of the poor guy? just go back to watching youtube tutorials or harrassing people over IM to listen to your "its not quite finished, I need to change x/y/z, but need your validation" tracks or whatever it is you do. I know thats only a small proportion of you really, so again - sorry, but for some reason this thread really pissed me off. Hes just an engineer looking to make some pocketmoney in his downtime, or thats what it looks like anyway.

#Note# I dont know this guy at all, but this tall poppy syndrome shit is pretty ridiculous. feel free to offer indepth analysis of my tracks for free guys - the one id love help with is 'commit' on my soundcloud, it translates nicely on every system i try it on, but i know its not quite 100%.

[Capture pt]

Kim - say I want a step by step guide on how to create one specific sound in a synth (depending on fm or subtractive sythesis, probably massive or fm8), what would you charge for this?


i oftan come across certain sounds that i find cropping up in various tunes i often think id like to use myself, except ive never found a decent guide online or otherwise that ever goes into detail about their construction. your services could be really well used in this kind of way, price dependent.

[qwaycee_]

Inferiority complex much? Its $50 us, whats the exchange rate to the uk make that? 20 pounds or so? You can buy 3 computer music magazines for that and revel in the 5 pages of fullpage screenshots with some arrows drawn on that pass for a "masterclass", or get indepth analysis of 3 tracks and actually learn something...or you could get someone with cracked software and an untreated room to "master" your tracks so you "know what they could sound like" (Yes, ive seen people on here say that). I spose you could get 15 minutes in a studio with an engineer, but if your track is 4:30, well you do the maths

These comments remind me of the dichotomy i experience when i tell people i write electronic music for some weird reason, its either "thats really easy computers do all the work"/or/ "that must be so complicated and difficult", my reply to them is the same "its easy to do anything badly".

Tbh Im probably gonna take him up on his offer soon (once ive got some partying out of the way ), I know enough that i can fix the problems i hear, fairly efficiently id say -and my tracks holdup fairly well in A/B...but what about the things i dont even know to listen for? Ive spent a long time tuning my ears, and have a lot more tuning to go, and if someone can speed that process up even by a few percent then id be pretty foolish not to take that opportunity.

I didnt mean to rant, and i apologise, but why rip shreds of the poor guy? just go back to watching youtube tutorials or harrassing people over IM to listen to your "its not quite finished, I need to change x/y/z, but need your validation" tracks or whatever it is you do. I know thats only a small proportion of you really, so again - sorry, but for some reason this thread really pissed me off. Hes just an engineer looking to make some pocketmoney in his downtime, or thats what it looks like anyway.

#Note# I dont know this guy at all, but this tall poppy syndrome shit is pretty ridiculous. feel free to offer indepth analysis of my tracks for free guys - the one id love help with is 'commit' on my soundcloud, it translates nicely on every system i try it on, but i know its not quite 100%.

lol reading erratech's post again...so full of truth and win.

[Kim Lajoie]

Kim - say I want a step by step guide on how to create one specific sound in a synth (depending on fm or subtractive sythesis, probably massive or fm8), what would you charge for this?


i oftan come across certain sounds that i find cropping up in various tunes i often think id like to use myself, except ive never found a decent guide online or otherwise that ever goes into detail about their construction. your services could be really well used in this kind of way, price dependent.

It depends on how much depth you want to go to. A couple of examples:
- At one end of the spectrum, $50 will get you explanations for 4-6 different sounds (a few paragraphs each).
- At the other end of the spectrum, $50 will get you a very detailed examination of one sound, including several audio examples (one for each step) and synth/FX presets where relevant.

We can also work out something in between, or a combination. We can also discuss bigger or smaller scope too, depending on your budget and how much you want to get done.

-Kim.

[Capture pt]

bit rich for one quick explanation of a synth for me, im sure if i pestered someone who knew how to make it enough they would tell me - i just dont wanna be "that guy"

[Grok]

My latest release isn't trance, but

The blog is great however so I don't see a problem with this. Kim clearly knows his stuff and I can actually imagine a lot of people wanting to pay for advice. While you can get a lot of good tips on forums for free it's often really hard to get good feedback on your own work. When you pay or it on the other hand you know what you get: useful and well thought-out advice since his business depends on it.

[sixth sense]

No idea whats going on in this thread but I'm stopping by to say that his blog is quality.

[Kim Lajoie]

bit rich for one quick explanation of a synth for me, im sure if i pestered someone who knew how to make it enough they would tell me - i just dont wanna be "that guy"

If you just want one quick explanation, then you're right - it doesn't make sense to shell out $50 because you don't need $50 worth of service.

I use the $50 figure as a starting point because most of the time it doesn't make sense for me to charge for a smaller amount. It's to do with the way I allocate my time. If you just want one quick explanation though, send me an email [kitchen at kimlajoie dot com] and we'll work something out.

-Kim.