{"id":1625,"date":"2018-05-18T06:50:42","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2022-01-03T18:34:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T18:34:46","slug":"unintentionally-best-kept-secrets-at-shockwave-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/unintentionally-best-kept-secrets-at-shockwave-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintentionally best-kept secrets at Shockwave-Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<h2>Bulk offers on downloadable CD-collections<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1626\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1034px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/page\/bulk\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1626 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bulk_Purchases-1024x656.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bulk_Purchases-1024x656.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bulk_Purchases-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bulk_Purchases-768x492.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bulk_Purchases-1080x692.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Bulk_Purchases.jpg 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our pre-packaged, ready-made, downloadable album collections of stock music and royalty free music (and also sound-effects) are typically priced at around $99 &#8211; $139 per collection, but by buying a lot of them together in a single purchase, you can get them for very heavily discounted prices, even down to $50 each.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, you can get any 5 collections (*Excluding collections priced at $150 or more) for $439, or any 20 collections for $1299.<\/p>\n<p>We also give you a choice of how you would like to get them delivered to you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download only (No delivery charge)<\/li>\n<li>Download + simple \/ generic DVD-ROM&#8217;s sent to you by postal service: +$3 per collection.<\/li>\n<li>Download + nicely made DVD&#8217;s with full color artwork and DVD-cover: +$6 per collection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;downside&#8221; is that these collections are ready-made and packaged together, so the tracks contained in each collection is already pre-selected and you cannot hand pick individual tracks to create your own collections. They are what they are. So, each collection may contain some tracks that you don&#8217;t ever end up using, but on the other hand, you are saving a lot of money by buying them together &#8212; even if you don&#8217;t actually end up using every track.<\/p>\n<p>Discounted bulk CD-collection orders cannot be made using the online shopping cart system. The shopping cart does not apply the discount. In order to buy such a Bulk offer, you have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/contact\">contact us<\/a> and communicate with us in person.<\/p>\n<h2>Special Access to download non-watermarked preview files<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1627 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Special_Access_Area-875x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Special_Access_Area-875x1024.jpg 875w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Special_Access_Area-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Special_Access_Area-768x899.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Special_Access_Area-1080x1264.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Special_Access_Area.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you download or listen to preview music files at Shockwave-Sound, the sound quality is reasonable, but there is a &#8220;preview&#8230;. shockwave-sound dot com&#8230;.&#8221; voice mixed into the music at a discrete level. However, access to download <strong>non-watermarked<\/strong> MP3 preview files may be granted to clients with specific needs to download our music to try it out in their project, without the voiceover watermark, before buying a license.<\/p>\n<p>We keep a pretty strict limit on the type and number of clients who are granted this level of trust. We ask for your understanding that we can only grant this access to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High volume customers,<\/li>\n<li>Large\/high profile companies,<\/li>\n<li>Long-standing repeat customers,<\/li>\n<li>Other companies that we feel it is in our particular interest to show this level of trust.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to speak with us about getting access to our non-watermarked MP3 preview files, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/contact\">contact us<\/a> through our contact form. Please include\u00a0<strong>your full name, company name, company postal address, company website, telephone number<\/strong>, and a short introduction of your company and how you plan to use our files. Most likely we will give you a phone call to discuss briefly, and then set up your access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &nbsp; Our pre-packaged, ready-made, downloadable album collections of stock music and royalty free music (and also sound-effects) are typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shockwave-sound"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1628,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shockwave-sound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}