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, […]
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Why we don’t allow artists to sing, rap, or play instruments on our music
Some of you may have noticed that the Terms and conditions under which you buy music from us has a chapter that says “You may not create derived musical works” from our music. What this means in plain language is that, if you are a singer, rapper, or other musical artist, you may not sing, rap, […]
New ‘Advanced Search’ feature at Shockwave-Sound.com
Hi all, Until now, we have always just had a single, simple “Search” feature here at Shockwave-Sound.com. This was fine years ago when we had only a thousand or so music tracks and sound effects. But as the years have gone by, adding new music and sound effects every week, or catalogue has grown to […]
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 […]
Independent review of the Sennheiser 450 Noise Canceling Headphones
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 […]
Cue-Sheets, TV broadcast and public performance
If you are not already familiar with cue-sheets and public performance rules, we recommend you take few minutes to read this page, because it’s an issue that’s worth understanding for anybody involved in media production. What is a cue-sheet? A cue-sheet is basically a single-page document with information about music tracks used in a […]
