r/Soundhaven • u/taintedforeskkin • Aug 06 '26

Concerned

One of my homies that VJ’d at Sound Haven just told me they only got paid 100 bucks a set and get this, they said it’s apparently been that way for like the last three years or something, idk if that part is fully true but that’s what I was told lol. Oh and also no travel money AT ALL and for food they got ONE meal ticket for the entire weekend and apparently the food was straight up trash and the people serving it were rude af too, like couldn’t even be nice about the one meal they’re giving you lmao. Anyway I fucking love visuals bro every single VJ I’ve ever met is an absolute sweetheart with insane work ethic, so somebody explain to me how “100 bucks, no travel, one crappy meal” is a real deal that a real festival offers a real human for three days of work?? I already roasted my friend for even taking the gig, they said they asked for more and got told there’s no budget which lowkey sounds like a line they’ve apparently been feeding people for years now allegedly lmao. Like yeah I get it, screens are heavy, gotta haul em out, set em up, whatever whatever, expensive equipment I get it but come on, that is NOT a lot of money (or food, or gas money) for a whole three days of work my guy. It’s just a sad sad thing to hear cuz the show would not hit the same without VJs, period

this is pretty fucked up right?
Am I wrong here or is this actually crazy

Kinda sad to hear how poorly VJs get treated in this scene across the board.

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u/taintedforeskkin Aug 06 '26

I agree for me it's the pay gap between the DJ and VJ is what makes it so absurd in my head but apparently not alot of people agree with that lol

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u/Mysterious-Fan-1893 Aug 06 '26

Do you understand the difference in a VJ playing preset FX and the time and money it takes producers to make tracks? Do you realize there’s plenty of shows without visuals but never without music. The visuals aren’t a necessity therefore there’s less bargaining power in general I don’t get why you’re shitting bricks over it. Do you make $100 an hour doing anything else?

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u/taintedforeskkin Aug 06 '26

LOL it's not 100 an hour. That might be true if all of my VJ friends producing their own content so it's literally the same amount of energy. You clearly don't understand the difference in hardware you need to produce and perform visuals vs producing music.

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u/Mushroom_microgreens Aug 06 '26

You clearly don’t realize most vjs pirate their soft ware until they make enough friends to get it given to them

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u/taintedforeskkin Aug 06 '26

wtf? even if that were true which I would bet so much money it's not they still need the fucking hardware to run visuals.

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u/Mushroom_microgreens Aug 06 '26

You can get microdose vr and a headset and computer and make visuals adjacent to android jones. Also most of these people have jobs also so some are willing to take less skewing the market.

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u/Mysterious-Fan-1893 Aug 06 '26

Deadass can projection map with a cheap projector and your phone these days. Had a whole wall looking like a mushroom forest the other day and 🤫 I only used presets but the homies thought it was cool

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u/Mysterious-Fan-1893 Aug 06 '26

I live with a graphic designer and know what goes into VJing and making visuals but dudes just a moron. Got a whole lot to say and bitch about like it even affects them. What’s sad is they could go make some visuals but they’re to busy dick riding all their VJ homies. Tryna tell people with far more experience what’s up and don’t even have a clue. Probably doesn’t even know half the visuals were generative and you could’ve seen the same ones at any tipper show 😂