By: Piotr Koczewski Polish – Lithuanian Connection Now I would like to share some of my personal experience, summarizing in a few paragraphs my achievements as the composer (hope it may serve as an inspiration for some of you). In May I had the pleasure of giving a presentation on music making and […]
Category: Shockwave-Sound
Doing some Fall cleaning, pruning the catalogue of some old tracks
The good people reading this blog may get the impression that all we’re doing is to remove tracks, and not add much new stuff. We do not post on the blog here every time we publish new music, because we publish new music all the time. Every single week, and some times several times per […]
Orchestral MIDI Arrangements
The absolute beginner’s guide to the Orchestral MIDI Mockup By Thomas James Slater Like many composers in the more analog field of pencil and paper, I was entirely unaware of the other side of music production. For years I thought that the bleep and bloop of midi, compliments of my music notation software, were all […]
Some old tracks being pruned today
Unlike most stock music libraries, here at Shockwave-Sound.com we actually remove some tracks. We consider the track’s age, its sound, its production, its sales and its genre, and a few times per year we “prune” some oldies that we feel we are replacing with more fresh new material. Why do we do this? Because it’s […]
Depth and space in the mix, Part 2
by Piotr Pacyna< Go to part 1 of this article So, how to start? With a plan. First off, I imagine in my head or on a sheet of paper the placing of individual instruments/musicians on the virtual stage and then think how to “re-create” this space in my mix. Typically I’d have three areas: […]
Depth and space in the mix, Part 1
by Piotr Pacyna “When some things are harder to hear and others very clearly, it gives you an idea of depth.” – Mouse On Mars There are a few things that immediately allows one to distinguish between amateur and professional mix. One of them is depth. Depth relates to the perceived distance from the listener […]
Cleaning up noisy dialogue: Get rid of background noise and improve sound quality of voice recordings
Tools and techniques for removing unwanted noise from vocal recordings by Richie Nieto One of the biggest differences between film and documentary sound versus animation and video game sound is that, usually, in films and documentaries, the recording environments are not fully controlled and often chaotic. When shooting a scene in the middle of a […]
Drum tips for music producers
by Piotr Pacyna Here are a few tips for anyone thinking about spicing up his drum parts. Some of them are for more advanced producers, while some of the others will be suitable for less advanced readers. However, this article is not for beginners. You have to know at least the basics of MIDI programming, […]
Buying Shockwave-Sound.com music just for personal listening
We occasionally get emails from people browsing our site and wishing to buy our music just for personal listening. People who are used to buying music tracks for a couple of dollars at iTunes, Amazon etc. are finding it hard to paying our lowest license fee around $30 just for buying a music track for […]
Explanation of YouTube Content-ID for Stock Music / Production Music composers
Recently, one of our artists wrote to me with questions about YouTube and his right to receive compensation when his music was used in YouTube videos. I ended up writing a pretty long explanation around the whole YouTube / Content-ID issue, and I just thought it was worth sharing here, in case it can help […]
