Ep 9 How To Choose The Best Publisher To Work With- With Grant Borland
Sync Gems - A podcast by Roy Matz - Thursdays
In this episode we take a deep dive into different ways your music can be placed, and how you should approach choosing the right publisher for you. There are a lot of super practical tools in this episode so make sure to collect them gems! Grant Borland is a full time composer. He has placements in netflix, discovery, apple tv, Peacock, Universal & more. He talks publishers, how to choose them, and what to watch out for. We talk about the importance of connecting and genuine connection, we also talk about what editors want, and how to 2:30 How grant started making music for labels 6:26 Grant’s background and unique introduction to Sync 7:14 first lessons learned about sync, Know rules to break them 10:55 How music can convert and get to different placements you don’t expect 13:40 Know who to give your tracks to and how to research publishers 17:53 Red flags for choosing labels 19:09 Community and it’s importance 21:32 Collaborating on the higher levels 27:40 What Grant do if he started from scratch with $500 and a laptop 31:00 Creating unique sounds and why you should do it 35:22 What music editors like 40:28 The Job of a music supervisor Grant’s site https://www.grantborland.com Sample packs (freebies as well) https://www.grantborland.com/store Raum Reverb: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/effects/raum/