We would like to try to explain some of the complexities of music use and royalty free music. We’ve tried to make this as short as we could: 1. General royalty free music (PRO Tracks): Most music composers and publishers are members of various composers’ rights organizations. These organizations oversee and look after the composers’ […]
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Writing good descriptions and keywords for your stock music tracks
Track descriptions – too braggy Track descriptions – too specific Track descriptions – too descriptive Examples of good descriptions Keywords Don’t list common instrument names in the keywords field Don’t just copy your keywords from one track to the next Don’t forget to include alternate forms of your keywords Feel free to include “music” after […]
Dan Morrissey – special Artist feature
If you’re a regular user of Shockwave-Sound.com you’ve probably seen the name Dan Morrissey (full name Daniel Peter Morrissey) mentioned as the artist and songwriter for many of our tracks. In fact, with 742 tracks in our database at the time of writing, Dan is the most prolific contributor to our stock music catalog and his music […]
Classical Piano Favorites Vol. 2 – and why it’s so great!
Classical Piano Favorites Vol. 2 (2016) Dear customers, visitors, passers-by and everyone who might stumble across our site today.. Today at Shockwave-Sound.com we released our new album Classical Piano Favorites, Vol. 2. I just wanted to take a moment to write a few words about this album because I feel that this […]
Mechanical Rights administration and stock music / production music
As I’m writing this article, my target audience is composers / musicians who would like to get into the business of writing music for stock music / production music, and who does not yet fully understand the way in which the administration of your Mechanical Rights through an organization such as GEMA, MCPS, STEMRA etc. […]
New version of Shockwave-Sound.com launched today
Dear friends, users, visitors of Shockwave-Sound.com. This weekend we are launching the newly redesigned Shockwave-Sound website. We hope that you will enjoy using it. The new site features a slick, new design, more modern and perhaps more pleasing to the eye – although, of course, that is a matter of personal preference. Shockwave-Sound.com new site […]
Writing good Descriptions and Keywords for your stock music tracks
A letter / note to all musicians sending in music to Shockwave-Sound.com…: When I first started Shockwave-Sound.com in 1999/2000, I was working with a handful of composers and those composers would simply send me their music and I’d write the Descriptions and Keywords for all tracks. But as more and more people have joined up, […]
Bamba kids games line with audio from Shockwave-Sound.com
We recently worked with Mezmedia – a full-service interactive and multimedia studio, to create a unique “Audio Logo” for the animated logo for their line of kids games, “Bamba”. The brief was to create an audio stinger that was unique and that matched the animation: Fun, bright, a bit childish, and it had to incorporate […]
Have Yourself A Merry Royalty-Free Christmas
It’s almost Christmas time again and we can see that time coming, as people start buying royalty free Christmas music from our catalogue. Tracks like “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”, “Jingle Bells”, “Silent Night” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” are so popular that many of our composers have made their own versions of […]
Finding your picked tracks on a different computer
We are occasionally asked how it’s possible to make a list of favorite tracks, and then find that list on a different computer. You may be browsing music from home and wish to make a list of bookmarked tracks that you would like to come back to when you’re in your office, to actually make […]
