It’s pretty cool what you can do these days, armed only with a cellphone, a lot of time and talent, and of course, access to a good quality stock music library and voiceover talents. 🙂 Luis Mieses from Zaragoza, Spain – aka Mess FilmMakers – has produced two really cool trailers / short films. We […]
New look track display with “Find Similar Tracks”
Hello folks, About a month ago we launched our new, powerful music browsing tool. This weekend we are pretty pleased with ourselves again 😉 because we are unveiling our new style track display. The new track design can be seen by browsing or searching any music on our site, and it looks like the picture […]
Choosing Music For Short Film Projects
by Simon Power Film making requires ingenuity in many different fields. One priority is matching the mood and atmosphere of your story with the right music. In this article, we speak to directors and short film makers about how to get the best music for your movie score without blowing the budget. Part One – […]
Happy Birthday To You – royalty free music? Actually, no…
We got a call from a customer who was looking to buy the classic “Happy Birthday To You” song as royalty-free music. We didn’t have the track and at first both the customer and myself found it a bit odd. But I found out that in fact this track is still under copyright to two […]
Browse music by historical eras
We’re always working on improving and diversifying the ways that you can browse and search for music here at Shockwave-Sound.com, and this week we’ve added the possibility to browse for retro music by decade. By clicking on Suggested Production Types you can see a panel similar to the one shown here on the left. You […]
New ways of browsing for music at Shockwave-Sound.com
We’re very happy and excited to announce the new music browsing tool here at Shockwave-Sound.com. Our site and music catalog has come a long way since the first beginnings back in April 2000 and it was no longer enough to simply be able to look at a music genre and see hundreds or even a […]
Royalty-Free music with real orchestra
The state of royalty free music / stock music has come a long way since the rather bland, generic sounding electronic tracks of the 1980’s. As the music library business has “grown up” so to speak, the talent, effort, time and money put into library music recordings have increased gradually. We are now at a […]
Track # 10,000 reached at Shockwave-Sound.com
On June 7, 2011, we added track #10,000 to our royalty free music catalog. Track number ten thousand in our database was given to this rather nice & evocative piece of neo-classical piano + orchestra track by Yuri Sazonoff: http://www.shockwave-sound.com/track/10000 At the time of writing this, it’s about 24 hours later and right now we […]
Download multiple files in one big download
We’re happy to announce our “download page re-zipper”. This custom engineered little piece of software is now presented on your download page if you have ordered multiple products. Instead of downloading each sound file by itself, you can now click “Select All” and then click “Download selected files as one big .zip file”. Our server […]
Higher sound quality previews on our older tracks
Back in the day (i.e. before 2010) 😉 we used to create all our preview audio files in 56-kbps MP3 format, with a “preview…. shockwave-sound….” voice that was mixed in at a fixed volume. From about December 2010 onwards we started making our preview audio in 128-kbps MP3 files (higher fidelity, more clarity) and also […]
