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 […]
Upgrades & improvements coming to Shockwave-Sound.com
Dear Shockwave-Sound.com users / customers, When we first started Shockwave-Sound.com back in April of 2000 (now more than 11 years ago), the site contained basically only a few music tracks by founder/creator Bjorn Lynne, himself a musician with a nose for the emerging royalty-free music market. Everything was run pretty much manually, with Bjorn himself, […]
Shockwave-Sound.com music boogies down on X-Box
Check out some of Shockwave-Sound.com’s music used in a very cool way, in Avatar Boogie 2. Is it a game? Is it a show? Is it a dance video? I guess it’s all of these and more! Watch your own X-box avatar dance the night away with funky moves from ballet to funk, from disco […]
Cross-promote your video / game / film / website / project with us
Here at Shockwave-Sound.com we love to cross-promote with our customers, so if you write up a little story/article on your website or blog, we will do the same for you on our blog. Our site is visited by over 4,500 different/unique visitors every day and is a very active place with a lot of media […]
YouTube Safe Music, how to use and properly credit composer and publishers on YouTube
A discussion on legal use of music on YouTube, how to properly credit composers and publishers of music used in YouTube videos, and how performance royalties apply to YouTube, Google Video and Metacafe hosted videos. Obtaining YouTube music from a stock music library Many people looking for music that they can legally use in their […]
Review: Samson Zoom H4 Handy Recorder
By Paul Virostek Introduction For decades it seemed professional sound recording was limited to cumbersome tape-based Nagra machines or DAT recorders that required agonizing real-time transfers. I have been recording Hollywood sound effects for over 13 years. Often I’ve heard a rare sound and wished I had a recorder handy to capture it a moment’s […]
Asset Management: Keep track of sound clips with metadata
How to Choose Sound Library Management Software by Paul Virostek Are you a composer with a large music library? Do you plan to be one, someday? Perhaps you’re a producer or editor who juggles music and sound clips daily, and are throwing your hands up to the sky trying to sort your samples strewn […]
Why we don’t allow artists to sing, rap, or play instruments on our music
Some of you may have noticed that the Terms and conditions under which you buy music from us has a chapter that says “You may not create derived musical works” from our music. What this means in plain language is that, if you are a singer, rapper, or other musical artist, you may not sing, rap, […]
New website feature: My Orders
Our new “My orders” page Dear Shockwave-Sound.com users, This week we have launched a new website feature: “My orders“. This new page allows you to get access to all your current and past orders – with download links for all your orders. Our site has been online for almost 11 years now, and unlike many […]
Artist feature: Pawel Blaszczak
Pawel Blaszczak is a composer who has been working with Shockwave-Sound.com and our internal music publishing company Lynne Publishing, for a good few years now. He has been responsible for producing some of the best selling tracks at Shockwave-Sound.com, including the track “Day After Day” which until recently held the position of the most often […]
