Also, we fired our recording guy last night, and he got pissed. We explained, politely, that it was a business decision to take our music elsewhere and he proceeded to use a few choice words and act very unprofessionally. He then refused to give us the raw tracks for anything less than $1000. We told him we'd give him $50 and nothing else. We are not going to pay him the money for them, as we can easily record for free elsewhere and get better mixing done for next to nothing as well.

He has threatened that, if we don't pull his tracks off of our MySpace, he will start selling our demo. While shitty, he's acted childish enough this far to go do something like that. Anybody know how to go about copyrighting music?

Lmao what a dick. Obv short man syndrome with that guy. $1000? that's probably more than what he paid for his entire recording rig, *** hole.

The organization APRA does most copyrighting I think. Pretty sure it's worldwide, I'd have to check up on it. Just google it and get them copyrighted before he does and then you can take him to court if he sells your demo.

Does he have ADD?

He's never going to make it anywhere in this industry with a attitude like that. Did you sign any contracts? Just threaten to trash talk his name all over town, save any messages he sends to you for proof of his bullshit and just let your musician friends never to work with him.

You could even take them off now to shut him up, copyright them, then put them back up and he can't do **** about it.

I'd get them re recorded personally. His rig sounded pretty crappy to me. Plus he has no idea what he's doing. But if you can get them, send them to me or Raayl (if he wants to) and we could probably fix them up.

[quote=Joelbassman;17827281]Lmao what a dick. Obv short man syndrome with that guy. $1000? that's probably more than what he paid for his entire recording rig, *** hole.[/quote]

I agree. I'm sure he inflated the price too. He blamed me for trying to "trick him out of the tracks since day 1." Sorry, but they're our intellectual property, and in case sh*t hit the fan, I wanted our hard work. That's why I didn't record my bass parts with him.

[quote=Joelbassman;17827281]The organization APRA does most copyrighting I think. Pretty sure it's worldwide, I'd have to check up on it. Just google it and get them copyrighted before he does and then you can take him to court if he sells your demo.
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Exactly the plan, although I was actually contacting the US Copyright office. I'll check out APRA as soon as I get home.

[quote=Joelbassman;17827281]
Does he have ADD?
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Asshole.Dick.Dumbass.

[quote=Joelbassman;17827281]
He's never going to make it anywhere in this industry with a attitude like that. Did you sign any contracts? Just threaten to trash talk his name all over town, save any messages he sends to you for proof of his bullpoop and just let your musician friends never to work with him. [/quote]

I did politely remind him that it was a business decision and that we were trying to settle things in a civil manner. I also told him that a bad reputation hangs on a lot longer than a good one, so his commentary was unnecessary and detrimental to any future business. Then I get this text: "Oh, by the way, did I mention '**** you?'"

...idiot

[quote=Joelbassman;17827281]
You could even take them off now to shut him up, copyright them, then put them back up and he can't do **** about it.
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We actually only have one up, and it's the worst one, but it's probably the best idea.

[quote=Joelbassman;17827281]
I'd get them re recorded personally. His rig sounded pretty crappy to me. Plus he has no idea what he's doing. But if you can get them, send them to me or Raayl (if he wants to) and we could probably fix them up.[/quote]

We're not paying $1000 for the tracks, so we're going to have to re-record everything (I'm thinking about doing it myself, sheisse) There's an audio engineering school here that has million-dollar studios that we can record at for free, so as soon as we get some raw tracks and get the songs copyrighted, I'll gladly pass them around and see what kind of good mixing everyone can come up with.

I don't think APRA will help you out. It's an Australian organisation and Australian copyright law is different to American, as far as I know.

In Australia, if you record a song or draw a picture or paint a painting, you own copyright on it immediately and automatically simply by virtue of you having created it.

The American equivalent of APRA is ASCAP, maybe look that up for future reference but I don't think it will solve your problem at present.

Sounds like the guy you are dealing with is a complete and utter retard. Just get someone else to rerecord your stuff, if he's that dumb he probably did a sub-par job of it anyway.

He has no business trying to extort that kind of money from you for your recordings because a) they aren't his property and b) what on earth is he going to do with them anyway. If you've already paid him to record them, there's no way he can claim you need to pay him again to get copies of them, that's something you have a right to do at any time. He could say you have to provide a DVD and pay standard rates for the time it takes to burn the data to them, but that's about the limit of what he can do without simply making up charges.

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A bit over the top, eh?

eat it

Lol. Nobody wants to attack Australia.

And if they wanted to, arsenic in the Vegemite. Done.

Even that wouldn't work because it would just soften the flavour and noone would eat it.

Right, Australians wouldn't eat something disgusting AND tasteless.

No agony nooo braggin' ayyy

Vegemite is fantastic :lol:

There's lots of things I don't eat because I find the taste offensive or whatever but I could eat that **** every day.

So yeah, my state is finally getting with the times and using laser-card ID. They've used it as an excuse to raise the price of a license issue 350%.

Vegemite is only harsh on the tastebuds if you use way too much of it.

Exactly. But I think every child in Australia grows up with it and is used to it anyway.

You know what they say, if you don't like the _________ in Australia, go back where you came from.

I've always wanted to try vegemite, but I doubt I could get it here.

[QUOTE=Sablate McNuff;17830131]I've always wanted to try vegemite, but I doubt I could get it here.[/QUOTE]

It's pretty fantastic. I bet you could.

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That's ****ing pimp.

Fear and loathing in Sesame St.?

Give that man the ten thousand dollars.

Almost all of my parts came in yesterday. I'm wicked excited about it. Now I just need to grab some sand paper and make some room for the bridge pickup in my Jazz and wait on the rest of the parts to get here.

It's so nice to have all of my instruments almost finished.

It is a great feeling when you almost have your rig complete. I'm dangerously close.

[quote=Spaceman Spiff;17830791]It is a great feeling when you almost have your rig complete. I'm dangerously close.[/quote]

Well, the basses are one thing, but the amp rig is nowhere near complete. The pedalboard is one strip of carpet, 4 screws, and one threaded insert away from completion, though, so that's good.

My pedal board is not carpeted. Just velcro stuck to the wood.

I'm not planning on getting a stack/half stack or anything like that for an amp, I just want a sweet combo.

I've got my necessary instruments and pedals, though. So close to complete.

[quote=Spaceman Spiff;17830814]My pedal board is not carpeted. Just velcro stuck to the wood.

I'm not planning on getting a stack/half stack or anything like that for an amp, I just want a sweet combo.

I've got my necessary instruments and pedals, though. So close to complete.[/quote]

Oh yeah, mines a 2-tier, detachable pedalboard with carpet and the final feature is that it will be able to support a mic stand to take up less room on stage. I can't find anything with a proper pitch that can fit a mic stand, though. It's such a specific size.

I'm contimplating getting a volume booster pedal or something

idk

im starting to make some good synths

But synths aren't real instruments Gattsu, you know that.

Getting a volume booster pedal is a good idea if you need a volume booster pedal.

Just had to pay a customs charge online. I think it might be for that dumb noise pedal I ordered ages ago, because I can't think of anything else I have ordered from outside the UK to be honest! Hopefully it'll get here pretty soon :) It's pretty much the last part of my pedalboard, and then I too shall have the mythical 'completed rig'.

Damn. The wiring in this bass is going to be horribly complex. I just got the OBP-3 and neck pickup wired. Now onto the bridge pickup coil tap.