itroitnyah wrote:Well you've obviously put a lot of effort into it, and it looks and sounds better than the Brony Media people who also started up a thing like this, but I doubt either of you will make it very far, although if I had to make a bet, EqR would make it farther. Overall, I still think that you won't get far, unless the forum part of your site jumps in popularity (which it may do that), just like every single promotional/label site for bronies has.
Good luck anyways.
itroitnyah wrote:using lines from the show or being inspired by poniponi are pretty much the same thing. Your audience isn't actually much broader from BMs
Navron wrote:Please don't get defensive. The relatively harsh responses by some people are not necessarily directed at you personally, but rather at this entire idea of a brony music label/producer. It's been tried before, you say you're different, but from our perspective, every damn person who's tried has also said that they're different, or illustrated many reasons why they will succeed. No matter how you word it, you sound like every other attempted label in this area, and considering we're talking about contracts, real money, and potential legal issues that can impact our lives, trying to persuade us to have faith in you succeeding is not enough to get us interested, especially when it sounds the same as 4 others who have failed.
We're not harping on you, and I'm even sure most of us would actually want a good label or promoter to help musicians in the fandom, but we need REAL examples of your team showing that you know what you're doing, not "plans," of how you're going to do things. If you already have 10 artists, good on ya, but don't expect any from here unless you show some real progress with those 10.
Nine Volt wrote:Yes, yes, you're ambitious and that's a good thing, but we've seen too many brony-focused promotion groups (EKF, Monstercat, MiAmore, etc) come and go to not be cynical about them. Here's some questions, some borrowed from the likes of Freewave and the4thImpulse:
Do you have any support from actual musicians?
If so, from whom?
Does anyone over at Equestrian Reverb have any kind of musical experience?
What kind of judging system will you have?
Do the judges have experience with music as well?
Do at least 4 of them have a studio quality setup?
Do you have any prior experience in running any kind of organization like this?
How do you expect to draw bronies away from the successful promotion networks currently in existence (ie Equestria Daily, Saberspark's "Songs of the Month", EQ Beats, along with non-brony networks like Monstercat)?
Do you have a good studio setup? And no, that doesn't mean you have a pair of $50 headphones.
Are you selling the music you're promoting?
Are you just posting stuff that you or your friends like, or stuff that's good regardless of preference?
How do you expect to get promotion for your network?
What do you offer that's better or different from other networks?
What are the benefits of an artist to be on a label (a brony one, that is)?
I could probably go on, but I think you get the point. Here's a preemptive warning, courtesy of Navron. It's transposed from the recent Brony Media thread, so there might be some untrue statements but the thing as a whole still applies.Navron wrote:Please don't get defensive. The relatively harsh responses by some people are not necessarily directed at you personally, but rather at this entire idea of a brony music label/producer. It's been tried before, you say you're different, but from our perspective, every damn person who's tried has also said that they're different, or illustrated many reasons why they will succeed. No matter how you word it, you sound like every other attempted label in this area, and considering we're talking about contracts, real money, and potential legal issues that can impact our lives, trying to persuade us to have faith in you succeeding is not enough to get us interested, especially when it sounds the same as 4 others who have failed.
We're not harping on you, and I'm even sure most of us would actually want a good label or promoter to help musicians in the fandom, but we need REAL examples of your team showing that you know what you're doing, not "plans," of how you're going to do things. If you already have 10 artists, good on ya, but don't expect any from here unless you show some real progress with those 10.
Freewave wrote:Wish this site well as the effort is there on the design. Sad thing is i saw the same efforts by http://pony.fm and i don't think that site has continued their initial momentum despite a better layout and a far superior forum (full of brony's who might actually LISTEN to that music). It still seems a better options to many of these new startup sites. Building sites in the "if you build it, they will come" philosophy is missing out that brony's who aren't musicians need to be the core audience hearing this music. You can load up a site with a ton of unknown and new artists and it will look like a bunch of amateur unknown brony music that people will likely want to avoid. Not trying to be harsh but if the audience and the quality of the music are not there the engine won't run.
We've had continued and growing support from musicians such as Slendermane, Blaze, Thyrai, Pipsqueek, Oblivia, and Wavestreaker, just to name a few.
DJSeilo (The person who made our promotional music mix) is practicing music production and is planning on making his own music fairly soon.
For the majority of the team, this was their first time embarking on such a large project. We all had to start somewhere, and for a lot of
the4thImpulse wrote:So many red flags going after reading that. Pease share, in great detail, everyone's personal experience in the industry and how that applies together position in 'Brony Media's' company. That is th only way I can begin to tust you (and every other attempt at this brony label thing).
I also have yet to find any real good benefits from being on a brony label. The big benefits of labels in real life are the employees experience, real world money, promotion, and touring funds (this is all to my understanding of labels and all really general).
I also currently work for a real life, electronic, label as a producer (as in helping artists produce better tacks, kinda a more hands on judge).
I don't produce music.
Anything that is generally seen as "good music" will be accepted.
We've already put out a music mix and promotional animated, along with partnerships with other websites, and being guests on various pony related podcasts.
A more streamlined and user friendly website, direct access to forums for discussion, collaboration, and musical improvement, A well knit team that is active on the site, and always willing to go out of their way to help with any questions or concerns a user may have, just to name a few.
EQR_Austin wrote:What are the benefits of an artist to be on a label (a brony one, that is)?
These people put a lot of effort into their works and it's a shame to see them not get the recognition that they deserve. We want the people that weren't in the fandom from day one to get their music noticed by a larger audience. We know that there is a lot of potential in these artists, and we want to show exactly that.
MYCUTIEMARKISAGUN wrote:is it just me or is itroitnyah our Buzz Killington lol holy smokes eeyore
Site already looks markedly superior to EQDmusic.
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itroitnyah wrote:However, they also need unbiased judges to help critique and review tracks of all genres so that they aren't promoting purely what "Austin", as I guess this guy's name is, likes. They don't need to all have expensive studio setups and headphones, they really just need to know stuff about music and have a quality pair of speakers or headphones so that they can tell whether the songs they're looking at promoting are well made or not. They have potential.
itroitnyah wrote:Well, yeah, the song's well made, but I don't see how that applies to EqR, since it wasn't featured or posted about in the blog.
And if you're referring to the fact that Circuit has a lot of broken/cheap equipment, his equipment isn't "bad", it's not 100% ideal for music production, but he also has plenty of experience under his belt with music, so he knows what he is doing. Perhaps somebody who is as good as CF is and has a good sound system could find an error or two to point out, but this is getting off topic, and I have no idea why you even brought it up. I simply said that the judges for EqR should have a quality pair of headphones or speakers so that they can tell whether the song's they're promoting are well made or not. Please explain in further detail why you're asking me this.
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