There have been some pretty slim pickings to choose from in our last post, but unfortunately due to the low market prices at the moment we have seen a decrease in posting activity across the board. It's tough out there at the moment, and putting your heart and soul into producing good content to then only get small rewards is not easy. Our advice is don't give up, stay the course, and keep posting, what goes down must come up. The markets unfortunately do this, but keep in mind we are all still very much at the beginning, and there is only one way to go and that is up.

Introduction

We got together and decided we wanted to do something in the music space, as there are so many budding, talented musicians on the Steemit platform. We noticed that, although there were a lot of people posting, it felt like some of the contributors could use a little helping hand. I mean, who wouldn't want a little helping hand, right?
So where could WE add value? We could use our own in-house production people to help develop music for fellow Steemians looking for that little extra audio assistance.

We'll be running an initiative whereby Steemians can post their links below, and if the criteria are met (please read the criteria), we'll dig in with them and help mix their track, or add some instruments that they feel are missing from their song, or some little production techniques. If there isn't actually a post that our producer can work with, we might even just decide to give one of the entrants a bit of upvote love.

As time goes by and we put together enough collaborated content, we will then upload this content to digital stores (iTunes, Spotify, Deezer, etc.) and release a compilation album.
The other avenue where we would like to add value is to sync the music to commercials to try and develop some additional passive income for the artists.
Where will this go?
....Only time will tell!

Now that we've actually done one round of this initiative, I think it can give you guys and gals a better idea of what we're trying to achieve here.

How does it work?

• Comment below with your Steemit post, DSound link or Soundcloud link (or another platform that you would prefer to use). Must be within 7 days of this post.
• Upvote this post
• Join the ADSactly Discord Community
• Please try make sure you have independent audio files that we could actually work with in production
• @ADSactly picks a winner (Please check back in the comments for this)
• The winner receives a consultation over discord to discuss the direction moving forward on the track.
• Our in-house producer does the work, sends it back to the winner, and they upload it to DSound with a guaranteed upvote from @ADSactly
• We'll report back with the results in the following post so you, our followers, can keep track.

Disclaimer: Sometimes it might the case that out of all the entries, there isn't a post that can be worked with effectively; whether its due to a winner not getting back to us, or there being insufficient or inferior audio separates to work with. In this case we'll pick a song or track to show some love to.

About the Producer

Our guy behind the wheel is @heypapalegend, a music producer with a PDM in jazz studies and a BMusHons with distinction. He has performed in a variety of music acts in genres such as punk rock, reggae, dancehall, hip hop, electro, pop, jazz, and more. @heypapalegend is co-owner of internationally award-winning HeyPapaLegend Studios (heypapalegend.com) which have facilities in Cape Town and Johannesburg and has been in operation for roughly 10 years. Trust us, you're in good hands.

Check out our company website here

As well as some of the work we have done here

Our Previous Winner

We’ve decided that we would like to show some upvote love to @darrenclaxton

He is a great musician and an amazing song writer who regularly puts out original content, not only that, he is also an exemplary Steemian. He didn't personally submit his post, we ran across the specific song on one of his posts and in our opinion was a really great track, which we thought needed an honorable mention. Please go check it out here and show it some love.

Special thanks goes to all the other folks who submitted a post and who commented, they put some great music work on the platform, like @renald from Nigeria who is rather new on the platform and it's amazing to see his improvement in each post. Thanks to those who dropped us a link to your music track in our discord we did check them out.

Now what are you waiting for? Go and get that music post and link them in the comments...Don't forget to check up in the "How It Works" section to make sure you submit within the parameters. Lets have some fun with music!

The ADSactly Music Initiative is by led by Ross Dabone

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect the official policy or position of ADSactly

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