Production Music

[ziggy53]

A while back there was some discussion about "Royalty Free Music". Rather than discuss the merits of "how" you purchase music, I'd rather discuss music that I have found that is easy to purchse and use for both video production and, possibly, web sites.

I use Gene Michael Productions Inc., GMP Music library

http://ziggy53.smugmug.com/photos/373307151_qWUgw-O.jpg

I find their purchase methods easy (they have at least 5 methods to purchase music) their products excellent and their service nop-notch.

A lot of their music is designed as music-under so it can be played at almost any level.

Whether you want full themes or short themes or broadcast-length or tags and stingers, these people have been able to deliver. I've even heard their music at Disney and on the radio.

http://www.gmpmusic.com/

So what is your favorite source for production music? (Legal and ethical only please.)

[Art Scott]

When I was with WSU, we got all of our rights given to us by BMI / ASCAP....this included the rights to use music on Websites, to record our opera's and musicals', students recitals (unless a student was fortunate enuff to be able to do his/her own original music) and faculty recitals....... and we also did about a months search for ROYALTY FREE MUSIC and 99.9999% was really shite to the max........but when working for the cheapness of state govt sometimes you have to work with real shite or the work doesn't get done...........

[heatherfeather]

I have to say my favorite is Shaun Paul Productions.
He is so great at the emotional/ inspirational music (he plays cello, but has all the other instruments as well) and does royalty free licensing to photographers slideshows and streaming for websites and stuff.

http://www.shaunpaulproductions.com/licensing/licensing.htm

I haven't actually gotten the licensing, but plan on it. Best album- Everlasting. I have nearly worn out that music for listening to while editing, though. It emotes, plain and simple.

[BradfordBenn]

The other tip that I have used is that I friends that are musicians, so I ask them if I can use their stuff. I have even done trade out of my skills for their skills - definitely not photographic skills in my case. You also might want to consider if you have a local college that has a music program to see if any of the students might want to do a work for hire for you. You own the rights and they get experience.

[TGM80]

Many of the composers who write royalty free music also post their music on the larger music download sites like www.royaltyfreemusic.com (http://www.digitalgrin.com/www.royaltyfreemusic.com) or http://www.productiontrax.com/. The nice thing about using one of these sites is that there is a huge number of music and sound effect files to choose from, so you can typically find something that you are looking for.

[darkdragon]

My favorite source for production sound is Digital Juice. There are a lot of options and you can actually re-mix the music to personalize it (drums too harsh for your needs? no problem, remove them). The only downside is that they don't have a way to just pay for and download one track - you have to buy the DVD sets.

www.digitaljuice.com (http://www.digitaljuice.com)