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 […]
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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 […]
Enhancing creative workflow with Sonar, Part 1
By Johan Hynynen Introduction Making music with a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) involves knowing both hardware and software very well — you just can’t escape music technology. This can be a show stopper for our creativity when we need to write music. Many times we’re also working to match short deadlines, so with that in […]
New music highlights at Shockwave-Sound.com
At Shockwave-Sound.com we keep adding new Royalty Free Music tracks every week, sometimes several times per week, so we aren’t going to write about it here every time we post some new music, but we’ve added a few tracks recently that I think are a bit special, so I wanted to give them an extra […]
Christmas hand bells music
This week we’ve had the pleasure of adding some rather different and interesting music to Shockwave-Sound.com. Christmas is coming up and, like every year, the interest for royalty-free Christmas music is peaking around October/November time – I guess that’s when everybody are working on their Christmas projects, interactive Christmas greeting cards, online Flash Christmas animations […]
Each track now has its own URL / link
A small site improvement at Shockwave-Sound.com. We’re occasionally asked if it’s possible to email somebody a link to a specific track at Shockwave-Sound.Now you can do this. When you are looking at a track listing, click on the actual (blue) track title. That takes you to a page which specifically displays only that track. The […]
Cue the Music, Part 3: Royalty Free Music Under the Microscope
Cue The Music is a three part series examining the options available to amateur and semi-pro audio/visual producers who wish to incorporate music in their productions. In Part One, we examined the process of clearing copyrighted music. In Part Two, we offered some alternatives to using copyrighted music. And in this Part Three, we will […]
