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RouteNote Royalties: October’s Sales Reports Finalised

Sales statistics for October 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website.

Signed,

The RouteNote Team

RouteNote Royalties: September’s Sales Reports Finalised

Sales statistics for September 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website.

Signed,

The RouteNote Team

The Eddie Kramer Collection – Waves Audio Signature Series Software Plug-ins

The second collection from the Waves Audio’s ‘Signature Series’ explores the mindset and production genius that is Mr Eddie Kramer. Kramer, through his inspired engineering and production, helped sensationalise contemporary rock music in the 60’s adding the quality of sound that, until then, rock music had never been truly explored with or revealed by.

Kramer has worked and helped produce albums for Hendrix, Led Zeplin, Kiss, Santana, Bowie, Clapton and The Beatles to name a few, which has clearly earnt him the homage of a Waves Signature Series.

“As a producer/engineer, my main function is to interpret the artist’s vision, and give them the sonic palette to help realize their dreams. If I can make that happen, then I’ve done my job.” – Eddie Kramer

Built on a very similar looking platform and interface it is clear that Waves are definitely attempting to keep the collection consistent throughout and many aspects of this new Kramer Series mirror those from the Maserati Series. The Kramer Series offers 5 plug-ins for each area of a classic rock mix.

• Eddie Kramer Guitar Channel

• Eddie Kramer Drum Channel

• Eddie Kramer Effects Channel

• Eddie Kramer Bass Channel

• Eddie Kramer Vocal Channel

I would have to say that the simplicity in parameters renders this edition of the Signature Series very task specific and will mainly appeal to lovers of Kramer’s work or engineers attempting to recreate the earthy rock sounds of the 60s/70s. Whereas, Maserati’s Series, although still not greatly, offered slightly more diversity in sound (I know I’ll get ripped for that).

Anyway, this is a great tool, worth a try for any engineer experimenting with a rock band, check the Waves website for the finer details.

Infuriatingly priced at $800 means I’ve only had a go at the demo whilst looking for a good torr…. nevermind.

RouteNote user statistics get a makeover!

At RouteNote we are constantly thinking up new ways to improve the site for our clients and partners. The latest launch has been a makeover of the user statistics presentation that enables both artist and label to view their sales and downloads with ease. Clear, dynamic, graphs and drop down selectors make it easy to isolate the statistics of a track, an album or even an entire artist’s catalogue.

Some key features:

  • Label level information – record labels are now presented with total earnings over all artists in a summary and monthly breakdown.
  • Top ten tracks – record labels and artists are now provided with a top ten of their uploaded tracks.
  • Artist breakdown – in addition to our previous album/track breakdown we have updated an artist breakdown, which should allow record labels to keep track of their artists individually.
  • Territory download percentage – this percentage pie charts shows the user in which territories their label/artists/albums/tracks are selling. This will be useful for targeting your market and optimising your promotion strategy.
  • Retail store downloads - this percentage pie chart compares the ratio between sales in each digital store.

Please take the time to asses the new changes and all feedback, good or bad (not too bad or you’ll make us cry), is welcome!

Thanks to all clients for your constant support, happy selling!

Regards,

The RouteNote Team

June 2009: Sales Statistics Finalised

Sales statistics for June 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website.

Signed,

The RouteNote Team

May 2009: Sales Statistics Finalised

Sales statistics for May 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website.

Signed,

The RouteNote Team

April 2009: Sales Statistics Finalised

Sales statistics for April 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website. 

Signed, 

The RouteNote Team

March 2009: Sales Statistics Finalised

Sales statistics for March 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website. 

Signed, 

The RouteNote Team

February 2009: Sales Statistics Finalised

Sales statistics for February 2009 have now been finalised, so be sure to check in on how your music is doing!

A big thank you to all account holders for your continued support and patience whilst we continue to close deals and develop the website. 

Signed, 

The RouteNote Team

Another RouteNote Testimonial

At RouteNote we are always keen to hear feedback from our clients and users. We are very proud to publish the the most recent RouteNote User Review.

It has been taken from the website of guitarist and producer Chris Bestwick who has recently uploaded and realeased his album ‘Mix A’.

Check him out, check his user review out.

http://chrisbestwick.com/index.php/blog/13-routenote-a-quick-user-review

http://www.chrisbestwick.com/

 

Thanks again for your feedback Chris!