Taxi.com is this site great for tv placements

[D.o.l.l.a.$]

wasup everyone i have been researching taxi.com and i have been seeing mixed reviews about the site. i am very interested into getting involved in tv production. If anyone has a subscription to this site could you please give me info on how great of bad the site is.

 

 

 

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[Johnny-Boy]

Hey $!

 

There are a lot of threads started here on TAXI. Just use Harmony's search engine.

 

You'll find mixed reviews depending on a person's success or failure. TAXI is a legit option. The majority of TAXI listings require broadcast quality tracks and tracks that are exactly what the listing is asking for.

 

Good luck, John

[Captain Commie]

Hey $! There are a lot of threads started here on TAXI. Just use Harmony's search engine. You'll find mixed reviews depending on a person's success or failure. TAXI is a legit option. The majority of TAXI listings require broadcast quality tracks and tracks that are exactly what the listing is asking for. Good luck, John

 

Just out of curiosity what do they define as "broadcast" quality and how do they list them? Is it post your tracks and see if people want the, or do prospective buyers list what they are looking for and then people try to fill them? Just interested for future stuff, currently I'm quite limited in the quality department with just two SM57's and two guitars. When I get out college and can upgrade some gear this could be a good avenue to make some money on the side doing something I like.

[MrKnobs]

 

Just out of curiosity what do they define as "broadcast" quality and how do they list them? Is it post your tracks and see if people want the, or do prospective buyers list what they are looking for and then people try to fill them? Just interested for future stuff, currently I'm quite limited in the quality department with just two SM57's and two guitars. When I get out college and can upgrade some gear this could be a good avenue to make some money on the side doing something I like.

 

 

A decent quality home recording is supposedly good enough. It needs to be "broadcast quality" not album quality. Plenty of good guitar recordings have been done with a 57, so the real issue is whether there'd be an opening for just an instrumental with guitars if that's what you do. They frequently have openings for 30 or 60 second very specific instrumental backing music which pays very well if you get selected.

 

The way it works is that TAXI responds to the buyers EXACT specifications and they have their own screeners so if your music isn't recorded well enough, isn't great, or isn't exactly what the buyer asked for the screeners will return it to you and the buyer will never hear it.

 

For most listings TAXI will provide a critique of your song and say why they did or did not pass it to the prospective buyer. That critique is pretty useful, though I can tell you that music being subjective you'll often get different screeners saying completely opposite things about the same song. Some openings are "pass/fail" and TAXI will just let you know if they passed your song on or if they rejected it, not why.

 

If you want to ask the screeners specific questions about one of your songs without submitting it to a particular listing, they'll do that too, for a fee.

 

The most important thing for having success with TAXI (other than writing excellent music) is to pay attention to what they're asking for. Generally, they give very specific descriptions of what their client is looking for. And by very specific, I mean they often list specific songs and artists on YouTube. Listen to those examples and don't be unrealistic about what you submit. If it doesn't sound like whatever artist / song they specify, they'll return it and you wasted $5.

 

Terry D.

[Johnny-Boy]

Broadcast Quality was discussed here: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/archive/index.php/t-2545563.html

[Ronan Murphy]

As far as I can tell Broadcast Quality is Taxi speak for "It sounds pro".