Cayuga Record's Blog

Notes from 5/6

2008-05-06T11:30:00.000-07:00

Here: Steve, John, Felicia, Colin, Shawn, Jake, Sam, Ryan

Snocap needs the music in either MP3 or WMA format. WMA files are able to be locked down when someone downloads them, and they can only make 10 CD copies. MP3 is unrestricted, which will be better for us because it doesnt cause problems for people with Macs.

We will set the price for downloads at 99 cents per song, snocap will take 39 cents, leaving us 60 cents per song. we can also set the price for the whole CD, which we can make cheaper than buying each track seperate.

Contract has been signed by the band, Ryan and Steve will sign it and make copies for each of the band memebers and for record at the college.

SR form is ready to be sent in for copyright- for unpublished CDs they need 1 phonorecord. the current fee is $45- is this for each track or for the whole album?
Steve will call John Coon, Jake- keep researching

Mastering will be done tomorrow at 10am, takes around 1-1.5 hours. Colin will have the final copy tomorrow afternoon. We need 3 copies at least for now- one for duplicates, one for Doug for snocap, and one for copyright.

Next meeting- monday at 2
By the next meeting we will have the master done, research done for SR form, the website to look at, and we will be ready to load music onto Snocap.
Next week we will work on promotion, a release party, sending out stuff to radio stations...

The Myspace page has more stuff on it- a band bio, a link to the bands myspace, and more friends

We are going to wait to get in contact with radio stations untill we have CDs and other promotional things to send (buttons...)

Jake knows a local guy that makes buttons for cheap- get artwork ready for record lable and band to send to him

We looked at Zazzle.com some more, we need to make the logo bigger to go on T-shirts so it's not as pixled.
Also we need to regester for an account at Zazzle.

At the next meeting we will discuss plans for summer

Assignments:
Colin- Get 3 copies of the master, make artwork bigger for T-shirts
Jake- double check price for SR form - $45 for album, or for each track?, talk to the button guy

Next meeting- Monday at 2

Notes from 4/30

2008-05-06T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here: Ryan, Jake, Shawn, Colin, Felicia, Steve

we went over the contract, Colin will take it to the other guys in the band and have them sign it. Steve and Ryan will then sign it for the lable.

Snocap.com charges 39 cents per download, and you can set your own price for each download.

Next week in class we will check out zazzle.com, put artwork on the site and look at merch

The website is done, Todd got the files from Colin. He made a splash page to lead to the site.
To record it will cost $50 an hour- the seven songs we have will take around 1.5 hours

Everyone in class filled out the paper work to get credit hours for the class, choose 1 or 3 credits

Next meeting- tuesday at 1:30

Assignments:

Colin- get master done and contract signed
Jake- get SR form copyright signed
Ryan- get snocap information
Doug- find out what format snocap needs the music to be in for downloads
Shawn- work on the myspace page
Sam- get in contact with radio stations to play our music

Notes from 4/23

2008-04-30T08:58:00.000-07:00

Here: John, Ryan, Colin, Jake, Shaun, Sam, Eric, Felicia, Steve

Web site review
When do we want to get the site online?
Should we wait till we have products to sell?

Assignments:
Finacial team: Colin and Steve need to figure out how to collect money
Distribution team: review websites to sell products

Notes from 4/2

2008-04-14T09:56:00.000-07:00

Cayuga Records
4/2/08

Here: John, Felicia, Colin, Sam, Eric, Jake, Ryan

Legal: Librarian is looking for more sample contracts
Financial: nothing new
Web: nothing new- a lot of progress though
Distribution: www.snocap.com will probably be the best

Next meeting at noon, Monday the 14th- for now, may be changed
John Coon will be here

Assignments:
Everyone look though the packet we got

Legal: none
Financial: keep looking at paypal specifics and how to set up an account
A+R: band bio and myspace link
Web: bring in any new developments
Distribution: check out the same sites and review each, come back with opinions

Notes from 3/26

2008-03-27T10:58:00.000-07:00

Notes: 3/26

Present: Felicia, Shaun, Eric, Jake, Sam, Ryan, Steve

Those who want to get credit for this class, can: Jake, Eric, Sam, Ryan, Felicia

There are two ways we can go about adding bands:
- Scout ads, audition, record, and release
- Find bands who already have CDs
We would be able to add 3-5 extra bands that already have CDs because it wouldn’t take as much time

A+R Team- Sam, Colin, Eric, Ryan
Got song titles and lengths and the names of the band members

This is Why
1. Awake -1:38
2. Checking Out -1:22
3. Hyperion -1:47
4. Movements -2:53
5. Framework -2:37
6. Suit and Tied -1:31
7. Atlantic -4:06

Band members:
Colin Wilson – guitar
Brennan Payne – drums
Zack Davis – vocals

Assignment:
-Get band member bios and band bio
-Check cover art

Legal Team- Jake, Loren
Jake found a sample contract

Assignment:
-Keep searching for sample contracts, check the library

Financial Team- Loren, Steve, Colin
Steve met with the college; right now we can collect money through the club. The only problem with that is in June the money we collect will disappear.

Assignment:
-Research Paypal casual vs. a business account. Find pros and cons
-Research possible EBay seller
-Get more Paypal information
-Continue to work with the college

Web Development Team- Colin, Shaun
Nothing new since last week.

Assignment:
-Website review for next class

Distribution Team- John, Sam, Felicia, Ryan
Continue looking at merchandizing sites

Assignment:
-Look at the websites from last weeks notes, and any others you can find.

Next meeting will be April 2nd at 3pm.

Notes - 3/19

2008-03-20T07:48:00.000-07:00

Meeting Review:

This is Why:

Music Genre: Hardcore
EP Length CD
Cover Art is ready for review next week
Album review next weeks

Uses of the record label:

Promotion
Provide additional sales and distribution venues
Web presence
Recording services

Also, read the handouts on paypal before the next meeting.

Team Assignments:

A+R Team- Sam, Colin, Eric, Ryan

Assignments:

Get together before next week and listen to the album
Form opinions
Get song titles and lengths
Get band member names, bios, and a band bio

Legal Team- Jake, Loren

Assignments:

Search for more sample contracts
Check library for possible sample contracts

Financial Team- Loren, Steve, Colin

Assignments:

Research Paypal casual vs a business account. Find pros and cons.
Research possible EBAY seller
Get more paypal information.
Continue to work with the college.

Web Development Team- Colin, Shaun

Assignments:

March 26th progress report
April 2nd, layout review

Distribution Team- John, Sam, Felicia, Ryan

Assignments:

Find merchandizing sites for musicians.
www.indierec.com
www.iodaalliance.com
www. snocap.com
www.cdbaby.com
www.sonicbids.com
www.myxertones.com/default/
www.cafepress.com
www.zazzle.com
www.tunecore.com
www.merchdirect.com

Next meeting will be March 26th at 3pm.

Record Blog

2008-03-12T05:36:00.000-07:00

Nice job everyone getting the blog up and running - Logo is looking great. We need to get with Keeler and get the web hosting / domain name squared away, so we can link from the blog to the site and start posting our web pages soon. I am very excited about this new direction for Cayuga Records. Thanks for including me in the blog - Fedy

Notes from 3/5

2008-03-10T10:09:00.000-07:00

Cayuga Records 3/5/08

1. Class/meeting schedule
2. Management teams
3. Team assignments
4. Logo review
5. Website discussion

Class/Meeting Schedule:
Wednesdays at 3 pm
No meeting the 12th
Meetings: March 19, 26, April 2, 16, 23, 30

Teams:
Distribution- determines how, when, and where
- John, Sam, Felicia, Ryan
Financial- hot to collect and account for money
- Loren, Colin, Steve
Legal- develops contracts
- Jake, Loren
A+R- works with artist
- Sam, Colin, Eric, Ryan
Web Development- coordinate building website
- Colin, Shaun

Team Assignments:
-Distribution- meet with Colin and A+R for the next 2 weeks, find out what we’re working with. CD- style, length, tracks, cover art…
-Financial- find out how we can collect money. Search on the internet, look at pay pal, visa, or MasterCard for partnerships
-A+R- get info about the people in the band
-Web Development- talk to Todd

Logo Review:
Start using what we have as part of the website design

Website Layout:
Link on Cayuga Records site to the college website, Telecom Department, and WDWN sites. Also link from those sites to the Cayuga Records site.

Release Party:
John knows a couple guys that work at bars that we could possibly hold the party at, so we need to come up with a date at some point.

I've added...

2008-03-10T09:22:00.001-07:00

...a link to my band, This is Why, under the Cayuga Family link section.

Blog up.

2008-03-10T08:26:00.000-07:00

I've set up the blog. I'll be handing out the info to access the blog today.