Bombball is a fun new game for the OUYA games console, developed by E McNeill. The game features an “e-Sports” themed style of gameplay, slick visuals, hours of fun and some great surf rock music by Shockwave-Sound.com. Read more about the game and see a demonstration video at the Bombball website.
Author: Bjorn Lynne
Bjørn Lynne is a Norwegian sound engineer and music composer, now living and working in Stavern, Norway. He was also known as a tracker music composer under the name "Dr. Awesome" in the demoscene in the 1980s and 1990s when he released tunes in MOD format and made music for Amiga games.
Writing good Descriptions and Keywords for your stock music tracks
A letter / note to all musicians sending in music to Shockwave-Sound.com…: When I first started Shockwave-Sound.com in 1999/2000, I was working with a handful of composers and those composers would simply send me their music and I’d write the Descriptions and Keywords for all tracks. But as more and more people have joined up, […]
New subgenres in Childrens & Comedy music
We are doing some restructuring of the “Childrens & Comedy Music” genre at Shockwave-Sound.com, so please excuse the mess for a few days. Back when we started our business, one common genre for “Childrens music & comedy music” was enough, but by this time we have about 500 tracks in this genre, ranging from sweet […]
Getting started with Voiceovers
By Max Laing Voiceover talent doesn’t come naturally to everyone, but having the right tools, advice, and some great background music from Shockwave-Sound.com is a great way to get started. Whether you’re working on a low budget podcast, give prerecorded presentations, or plan to work in the film industry, everyone looking to accomplish voiceover work […]
Working with audio in Sony Vegas® – Part Two – Adding FX, Mixing & Rendering Audio Files
by Simon Power In this series of articles we will be offering fundamental help and advice to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who use Sony Vegas and want to incorporate music, voice overs and SFX in their productions. Introduction In part one of this tutorial, we looked at importing and timestretching audio files […]
Get the Work Done
Music composers’ strategies and tips for overcoming procrastination By Kole Hicks We’ve all been in this kind of situation before… Deadline is approaching quickly, inspiration and motivation are lacking, but procrastination is in full effect. No matter what field you work in the “wall” will rear it’s ugly head and it is essential as working […]
Some old tracks pruned (removed) today
It is our policy here at Shockwave-Sound.com to occasionally get rid of some old tracks from our catalogue. We do this to ensure our music is always up-to-date, fresh and so that we do not start “sounding 15 years old”, like some production music libraries. Here’s a list of the tracks that were confined to […]
New site feature – View Lyrics
Dear friends, We have a new feature on our site. It’s perhaps not immediately obvious, because it doesn’t make a big splash — but we think some of you will find this useful. If you are browsing vocal music, you can now view the lyrics for a track directly from our website: Any vocal track […]
More vocal music coming to Shockwave-Sound.com
Hi all! Traditionally, at Shockwave-Sound.com we have been all about instrumental royalty-free music, but over the past couple of weeks, and over the next few weeks, we are going to start offering more and more vocal music as well. Great bands such as Jamestown Story, Twirl, Neil White, Lessons (Pictured left) are soon to be […]
Choosing the right Classical music pieces for use in your project, part 2
This is a continuation of the article: Choosing the right classical music (Part 1) which you can read here. In part one of this series we looked at a list of 10 Bombastic classical pieces. Those huge, thunderous anthems that would sound great as an accompaniment to epic visuals & graphics or deep sonorous voice […]
