For our customers here at Shockwave-Sound, we offer a free music editing/customization service. For example: Create a longer-playing version of a music track that plays for the length of your video/presentation. Edit out a part/section that you don’t like, or doesn’t fit your project. Make the track go quieter or louder at certain times to […]
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Production music tracks with stem files
What is stems in music Video demonstration Making the music sound like it was made especially for your project Stock music tracks with stem audio files at Shockwave-Sound.com In audio production, a stem is a discrete or grouped collection of audio sources mixed together, usually by one person, to be dealt with downstream as one unit. A single […]
Making voice recordings at home
Actors and producers will be turning to remote recordings as travel to recording studios becomes less likely during a crisis such as the one we’re currently facing. It’s good practice for voiceover artists, podcasters and actors to have a basis home studio set up as it is a huge advantage when pitching for voice work. In this article we’ll look at a basic set up that will secure those voiceover jobs by recording high quality results from the comfort of your own home.
Using Reverb to enhance your productions
by John Radford Reverb in productions is probably for most composers the first ‘go to’ plug in and after effect, yet just as reverb can add a great professional quality and depth to your music, and can just as quickly ruin the production and make it sound ‘over produced’ and unprofessional. Reverb can often make […]
Music Production hardware and software tips, Part 2
By Piotr Koczewski < Back to Part 1 Hardware continued Selection of monitors (video) – First of all, you have to pay attention to the same contrast of a monitor, when purchasing a few HD monitors. Once I worked at two different monitors of the same company and I had to set contrast manually, which […]
Music Production hardware and software tips, Part 1
By Piotr Koczewski Many composers talk about creating music, but few discuss the tools required to do it. What I mean is the IT side of music creation. I will do my best to explore this broad topic providing the most concrete information. The choice of displays (audio) – the more displays with a different […]
Mixing as part of the music composing process, Part 1
By Kole Hicks**In this article I refer to Mixing as if it includes all aspects of track production before mastering. Mixing is typically considered by the majority of people as the thing you do to “sweeten” the music after it has been written and recorded. Furthermore, the “Mixing” definition tends to only refer to what […]
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 […]
Shockwave-Sound.com raising the bar for audiophile media producers
As of January 2010, we at Shockwave-Sound.com are pleased to announce that we are introducing a new level of audio quality for royalty free music users. We’re releasing all our new music — and some of our back catalogue — as High Definition, 24-bit WAV audio files. It has been almost 10 years since our […]
Choosing the right burning speed when creating a CD in your own computer
We occasionally get this question or comment: “I created an Audio-CD from the downloaded WAV or MP3 files, and the CD doesn’t have a high enough sound quality.” Here at Shockwave-Sound.Com, we deliver music files either in 44.1 khz uncompressed WAV files, or in 192-kbps mp3 files. The WAV files represent the original CD […]
