Shockwave-Sound Blog and Articles
Production music tracks with stem files
By using "stem files" you can obtain a higher degree of creative control over how the music works within your video or other media project. "Stem files" means that each layer of sound within the music is stored in its own separate audio file. By stacking all of the...
Hip Hop Week! 30% off all Hip-Hop Beatz albums until Sunday April 4th, 2021
We're celebrating the release of our new album "Hip Hop Beatz, Vol. 10", featuring 11 funky, hard-hitting, high impact and gritty Hip Hop & Trap tracks, with a week of 30% off all Hip Hop Beatz albums! Hip Hop Beatz, Vol. 1 Hip Hop Beatz, Vol. 2 Hip Hop Beatz,...
Finding the details of a YouTube copyright claim and who’s claiming what
If you have an active copyright claim on your YouTube video, it may be useful for you to find exactly what is being claimed, and by whom, so that the claim can be dealt with. Ensure you are logged into your YouTube account. Click the icon near the top right of the...
Action Week: March 15-21, 2021
Freeze! In celebration of the release of our brand new CD-collection: ACTION THRILLER, VOL. 11, featuring 12 amazing action tracks plus edits, cuts, loops and stingers, we're doing a special 30% off promotion this week on the new...
Amazing new Drums / Percussion tracks now available to license at Shockwave-Sound
Our producer David G Steele teamed up with the amazingly talented and skilled drummer, Mark Walker, to produce 15 hefty, punchy, funky and incredibly useful drums only music tracks for use with commercials, presentations, TV/video, YouTube etc. Check them out! The top...
Custom made solutions and agreements
At Shockwave-Sound.com we are happy to work with you if you have special requirements or need a custom solution for music and/or sound effects. For example: You would like a Subscription type model where you can download a specific number of tracks per day, or per...
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.
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...
Music 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...
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,...
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,...
Temp 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...
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...
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...
Order #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...
Gangster 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)...
Hans 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...
Music 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...
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...
Unintentionally 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...
Our 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...
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...
User 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...
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...
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...
Our 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:...
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...
New 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...
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...
A 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...