Shockwave-Sound Blog and Articles
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.
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10 Ways to Stay Fit and Healthy in the Recording Studio
Music studios are notoriously unhealthy environments. Low lighting, stale air, computer screens and overexposure to loud volumes eventually take their toll on mental and physical well being. In this article, we’ll highlight some of the tried and tested methods...
read moreMusic on the Move: A Short history of Mobile Listening
Long before technology provided us with a pocket sized phone where we can store thousands of our favourite tunes, listening to music on the go was often an unreliable and expensive pastime. In this article we outline a condensed history of the long & arduous...
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Retro Synth Wave Vol 1 by Pawel Blaszczak
I’ve been a big synthesizer music fan from many, many years. It all started when I first heard Jean Michel Jarre album "Oxygene". Then when I first heard the SID chip from Commodore 64 and tunes from Martin Galway and Rob Hubbard. I felt in love with those sounds,...
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Sound Oddities, part 1
TV Station’s Viewers Irate over Choice of Music and Sound Effects Scott Schaffer, of ABC’s WNEP affiliate in PA. launches into the topic of sound effects during the segment “Talkback 16” in which the station responds to viewers’ feedback. In this particular segment,...
read moreTemp Tracks: A Movie’s Secret Score
Selecting ‘temp music’ tracks is an essential part of the overall scoring process in film making. Yet its importance is often overlooked. In this article, I explain exactly what temp music is and the role it plays in everything from a low budget short films to a major...
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Sound Effects and the Fake Engine Roar
Over the years, the auto industry has increasingly honed their craft at creating environmentally sound cars and reducing unwanted noise levels for the drivers. As a result, the authentic organic engine sounds is masked more and more. For car aficionados who may buy...
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Sound Design Founders of the Theatre
The Theatre's Contribution to Sound Design As with any human discipline or industry, sound design as a practice and art form developed collectively over time, spurred on by the contributions of many and the striking visions and passion of leaders in the field. Below...
read moreOrder #222222 placed at Shockwave-Sound.com
It's always a bit of fun when you reach little milestones with your business, and we are happy to announce that a couple of days ago, order # 222222 was placed here at Shockwave-Sound.com. That's since we started our current order database in April of 2005. (We had...
read moreGangster Flick, Vol. 1
Shockwave-Sound.com proudly presents the brand new collection of stock music: "GANGSTER FLICK, VOL. 1": An amazing collection of royalty-free music available for immediate licensing, download, and legal use in your own productions such as (but not limited to)...
read moreHans Jenny and The Sound Matrix
Cymatics and the Sound Matrix Humans have long considered sound and music as mystical and magical, whether worshipped by the ancients and embedded in political and culture in ancient China, regarded as a portal to the infinite by Buddhists chanting OM, or modern day...
read moreMusic of the Minor Modes
The prior post concerned the three major modes which are designated by their major 5ths. The minor modes are similarly designated by their minor 5ths. Each has a unique history and flavor, but they share the familiar minor darkness of emotion in common. From the...
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Notes and Emotions: The Major Modes
Music Modes Chart and Circle of Fifths by Endorpheus Musical modes are variations of musical scales by moving the tonic (the root note) up or down a number of degrees and beginning the scale from that new starting point, while retaining the same notes of the scale. As...
read moreUnintentionally best-kept secrets at Shockwave-Sound
Hi all, we would like to bring some attention to a couple of features / offers that we have here at Shockwave-Sound, but that are perhaps not being made visible enough: Bulk offers on downloadable CD-collections Our pre-packaged, ready-made, downloadable album...
read moreOur latest stock music albums
Hi all, here is a quick recap of the 9 new ready-made collections - downloadable CD of royalty-free music / stock music that we have released over the past two months approximately. There are a lot of different styles of music here, something for just about all types...
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The Secret Power of Music: The Modern – Part II
Welcome to Part II of this blog discussion on David Tame's The Secret Power of Music. Part I explained Tame's main point of the initial part of his book. Namely, that music among the ancients, that philosophies that can be traced up to the present time, was considered...
read moreUser Accounts now in use at Shockwave-Sound
Hi all. It's been a little over 18 years since Shockwave-Sound.com first came online and started offering royalty-free music, music loops for Flash, music for podcasts and other media, this was back in April of 2000. Through the years the site has gone through various...
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Sound and Sculpture: Sound and Architecture
Artists draw inspiration from everything. The entire world around them and the human relationships they have are all sources of experience that provide the meaning they need to express. One powerful source of expression for the visual art is sound and music, the topic...
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The Secret Power of Music: The Ancients – Part 1
The "The Secret Power of Music" by David Tame is a wide ranging work that covers the inherent power of music and its origins in the human story. For anyone who marvels at this phenomenon that we call "music," this is an excellent read. The book is a wide but deep...
read moreOur latest stock music albums
At Shockwave-Sound we are always working on new music, new recordings and new studio recordings. Here is a summary with a short description of our latest albums of royalty-free music and stock music available for immediate licensing. Reflections, Vol. 6:...
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The Marriage of Music and Nature
Sound is a natural phenomenon, and music is this natural phenomenon harnessed and morphed by human minds and hands: an evolution of sound based on the principles of physics. Below we explore various expressions of this relationship between music/sound and the natural...
read moreNew technology adding new gestures to musical expression
Modification of music makers Music and sound invite all forms of creativity and invention. Most likely as soon as the hand drum was invented, the mallet took shape. The hand drum gave rise to drums of all shapes and sizes, played with all forms of materials and came...
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The Loudness Wars: Over-Compression and its Impact on Music Quality
Let's go to eleven It is common professional practice for a mixing and mastering engineer to normalize tracks and apply the proper compression to maximize the punch of sound: it's called loudness, or the loudness wars. This is the skills and tactics of skilled...
read moreA summary of our latest stock music albums
With Christmas and New Year coming up once again, we hope that you are well, busy, and working on some new great projects. Here at Shockwave-Sound we have - as ever - been busy with developing new albums and tracks of Stock Music, now available for immediate licensing...
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Dmitri Belichenko – Special Artist Feature
For a good few years now, Dmitri Belichenko has been a regular contributor of new music released by our label, Shockwave-Sound / Lynne Publishing. His music tends to be electronic, but with orchestral elements and use of sound design as part of the compositions and...
read moreRound-up of latest CD collections of royalty-free music
Another month or so has passed since we last did a write-up of our latest collections of royalty-free music and stock music, so here's another little update from us. Among other new albums, we have a beautiful new album of royalty-free String Quartet performances of...
read moreFree sound effects pages back by popular demand
Back in the good old days, when our site Shockwave-Sound.com had the "old style" look and feel, and about half as much content as we have on the site now, we used to have a selection of "Free sound effects" pages. It wasn't really anything very fancy, just a bunch of...
read moreNew royalty-free music round-up
We are always busy with music projects and we tend not to post a new blog post every time we release new stock music here at Shockwave-Sound because we'd be constantly posting blog posts. So here's a re-cap of our latest CD-collections of production music and...
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Special artist feature: Abbas Premjee
For the past few years, among the many different artists from all over the world who regularly supply music for publishing via Shockwave-Sound, Abbas Premjee has been one of the more prolific and active ones. He has composed many great tracks of stock music for...
read moreNew Stock Music highlights for September 2017
We hope you're well and that you're working on some great projects. Here at Shockwave-Sound we have - as ever - been busy with developing new albums and tracks of Stock Music, now available for immediate licensing and download. Action Thriller, Vol. 8:...
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