Hey everyone! So I’m coming off a fresh move. WOOHOO. I’m now living with my wonderful girlfriend of three years and with that I’ve got a lot more space to work with in terms of my production set up! I wanted to ask you all, if you were to start building your physical set up today. (Of which i am doing lol) what would you buy or get to help yourself be the best most productive musician you can be. Anything from gear to how you set up your desk! That’s all!

Can’t wait to hear what y’all have cooked up for tonights session! Make sure y’all tune in and submit your tracks to see if they are ready for audio visual media!

Good morning everyone! Whats everyone working on And hope to accomplish this week?!

Today @ 7pm - 8:30pm CST https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89768130743 The first Brief Room is live. This is where your ability to read direction, respond, and deliver gets tested and sharpened. Trailer-focused. Structure, hooks, execution. Welcoming guest host @Brandon Lau , trailer composer, alongside @Nate Michalic & @Gilde Flores Submit: [email protected]

Let me share something I wish more creators understood earlier in this "visual media" industry. The moment you decide you are going to take this career seriously, whether that is composing, producing, or creating in any lane, you are already stepping into a long game. There is no version of this where it happens fast. What most people see is the main road. The obvious path. The one tied to upfront money, quick wins, and immediate results. That path is real. You should be on it. But there is another road running alongside it. Less obvious. Slower at first. No big upfront payoff. Just work that builds over time. Same destination. Same goal. A different way of getting there. Early on, I made the decision to take both. I stayed on the main (one) road. But I also took opportunities that did not always pay upfront. I focused on building something, not just earning something. I said yes to work that gave me ownership, gained experience, and volume in the form of a writer’s share. I treated every piece like it mattered, even when it felt small. Why? ...... Because that work does not disappear. It compounds. It stacks. One piece turns into ten.Ten turns into a hundred. A hundred turns into something that starts working for you long after the work is done. For me, that window was 2012 to 2015. During that time, I was still on my main path, building my career as a composer. But alongside that, I was contributing to catalogs every chance I got. Some of it went directly into catalogs.Most of it went through publishers who had direct relationships with working music supervisors. So the pipeline was simple. From my DAW to the publisher to the music supervisor to the editor that placed it directly into picture That was it. No middle confusion. No waiting around. Just consistent output going straight into real opportunities to be placed. That is when everything shifts. You stop chasing every dollar. You start collecting from the work you already did. That is how I built.