Hi All
I wanted to make this post to try and help out those on this forum that intend to make any commercial pitches to publishers
I have been very lucky to have been "picked up" by a publisher, who is currently pitching my songs to artists, managers and larger publishers
This afternoon I received some feedback on one of my songs, which was initially a little disappointing BUT within a few minutes I realised the value of this feedback so I thought I would share it with you guys and gals
The feedback was from the SENIOR A&R MANAGER at one of the big boys, which has placed hits with Justin Timberlake, Daft Punk, Madonna, Rihanna, Britney Spears and many others - so it doesn't really get any more "from the horses mouth" than that
The song being pitched was "Watching Me, Watching You"
https://soundcloud.com/boydiemusic/watching-me-watching-you The feedback from the pitch was:
I'm sorry to be negative again but this demo quality is juts not good enough.
Really, even if the sings were great the A & R s these days don’t bother of the demo is not high standard.
So i m sorry for that but the whole quality of sound has gone really up since the swedes arrived
I have no idea who "the swedes" are and the person writing this email is not a native English speaker (by "sings" I am pretty sure he means vocals - although I quite like the term "sings" for vocals so I might start using it as "industry speak"
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I am confident that he is referring to the "quality of sound" rather than the quality of the song itself, although we should always be striving to write better songs and I personally do not feel this song is "the one" but the publisher wanted to pitch it
To be fair this was my first attempt at "modernising" my sound and it was recorded over a year ago - and I have learnt a lot in that year
However, I was still surprised at the comment regarding the quality of the demo
I have been banging on for ages that the days of "guitar & vocal" demo are dead - are we now seeing the end of "home produced" demos (good news for studio owners!)
I would be interested in other's thoughts about the "sound quality" of the track and the overall quality required for commercial pitching
I am actually seeing this as a huge positive and an opportunity to "raise my game" - although I am a little stumped as to exactly what I need to improve so any help to figure this out as well would be gratefully received!!!!!