Now that there is a huge variety of mood music available, choosing the soundtrack to your documentary video project can present some exciting opportunities. This article gives some tips & guidance on how to use music to add vibrancy and impact to your production and still bring it in on budget. 1. How do […]
Stage vs Digital Audio Workstation By Dov Waterman There isn’t anything out there in the world of digital music reproduction that beats the sound of a real instrument. Nevertheless, the piano is one of those instruments that composers, performers and audio engineers have sought to emulate over the years. With ultra-powerful computers with […]
Adam Skorupa originally became a Shockwave-Sound.com music composer / contributor because he happened to be a friend and musical collaborator of Shockwave-Sound founder and creator Bjorn Lynne. Ever since our beginning back in April of 2000, Adam’s music has been available for licensing here, and we felt it was about time we pestered him with […]
By Mike Efford Audio intensifies 3D animation. It gives spatial depth and atmosphere to an animated production, fleshes out character, and generally breathes life into it. There are ways to make the most of that combined energy, to take an animation to a higher level of intensity with good audio, and that’s what we’re about […]
by Simon Power Film making requires ingenuity in many different fields. One priority is matching the mood and atmosphere of your story with the right music. In this article, we speak to directors and short film makers about how to get the best music for your movie score without blowing the budget. Part One – […]
Dear Shockwave-Sound.com users / customers, When we first started Shockwave-Sound.com back in April of 2000 (now more than 11 years ago), the site contained basically only a few music tracks by founder/creator Bjorn Lynne, himself a musician with a nose for the emerging royalty-free music market. Everything was run pretty much manually, with Bjorn himself, […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’ve just added a whole new collection of royalty free tunes by Gayle Ellett and Todd Montgomery, so it seemed like a good time for us to conduct an interview with this rather special musical duo. Through their “Fernwood” music project, Todd & Gayle writes and plays instrumental music 100% by hand – exclusively on […]
As a music composer, producer and sound engineer, I need a good pair of headphones. I’ve been using a pair of Sennheiser headphones for years that I was always quite pleased with, but with the number of computers, fans, servers, external hard disks and even hard disks in hardware outboard samplers around me, frankly, the […]