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• Your band get invitations to a big yearly festival,
celebration or concert series? Asked to perform
FREE? The entire enterprise, the “three-day festival”
is making money off the performances. The manage-
ment, festival owners, the festival board get paid.
Some festivals get grants or government
funding and bands are performing FOR FREE.
Keep this in mind while negotiating.
• Start a central bank on social media “Expose the
Exploiters, We don’t play for FREE.” Boycott the Venues
and Bands that demand a FREE performance or those
who provide it.

• Know your Performing Rights.
Even a modest payment from the venue keeps band
members from spending their own hard-earned cash to
just play out. At least get your gas money, your overnight
stay, your food and drink paid for by the venue. Venues
are making money off your band’s performance and
covering their expenses. At least cover yours.

2018 145th Annual AES Convention, NYC

2018-New York City, NY marked the 145th Audio No matter what level of experience you have in the audio
Engineering Society (AES) Convention which took place field, the collective efforts at AES have helped to shape
at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. AES holds two your auditory experience through setting industry stan-
conventions per year, one stateside and one in Europe, dards, popularizing audio hardware and software and
where attendees listen to presentations, attend workshops continually making music more accessible.

and demo new products associated with any and all
aspects of professional audio. For the music lover, this
is the place where everyone from the person picking out
what music is playing during your favorite television show
to the person who runs the studio where your favorite
artists records make sure that your listening experience is
top-quality.

Learning About New Products145th Annual AES Convention.
The reason why you probably keep returning to your
favorite set of headphones or go-to microphone is that
professionals in the audio field have worked with the
manufacturer to refine a product’s desired qualities,
used that product over and over in commercial settings
to solidify its sonic signature in popular music and then
purchased it enough times and in enough bulk to drive
the price down to a competitive consumer level.

From wireless earbuds to the mic in your cell phone,
from guitar pedals to recording software, from live venue
sound equipment to podcast recording equipment;
professional audio touches us all. AES is where quality
LOMM’s Drew St. John at the annual AES Convention in NY earlier this audio is imagined and first taken to market.
Photo Credits: LOMM Staff

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