I pretty much used to B3ta for a living...
Back in the halcyon days of Nu-Meedja 'career' making ringtones. The company I worked for made a shedload on each tone we made, and we worked for some big record labels so there was normally enough work to keep things afloat. Even better, not many people had my unique 'skill' of being able to listen to a song and reproduce it as godawful bleepy midi files. Oh yes, I didn't do a music degree for nothing!

Upshot being I'd been in the industry for five years and made significant progress career-wise. After two of those years I'd exhausted the entire rest of the internet and stumbled upon B3ta. The remaining three years were split between this place, writing music reviews for a fanzine and creating an extensive back catalogue of around 50 - 60 songs, all done on work hours.

All good things must come to an end however and these days no-one buys ringtones anymore. There was a very messy ending with various missing salary cheques etc that ended up in me sending out this welcoming self portrait informing everyone that I was leaving:

click for "Bye folks!" size.
( Sonic James Doom forgetting the date since... umm..., Thu 9 Sep 2010, 21:18, Reply)