Finding music for your low budget production team - Reader Response

Where to find free sound effects and royalty-free music

This is an awesome find! While being a producer for KBVR this will help me with so much! Currently I am working on the OSU Dating Game and we are still in need of extra tracks. We have a few great sound tracks in our introduction and ending, then we have laughter and applause but it’s always nice to change it up every once and a while. I would still like to find some music to put in the beginning of the program to help grab the viewers’ attention when the host is introducing the show or at the end when the contestant wins. It would be awesome to get an upbeat classic tune when the host introduces the three contestants. This will be great audio is a great way to make a production great. You can change viewers emotions based on the type of music that you play. For example in scary movies when someone is walking alone the a dark mansion at night with the floor creaking then all of a sudden some eerie music starts playing, it slowly speeds up and then… BAM something crazy happens!

This post has plenty of great resources to go to for extra tunes or sound effects. I haven’t had too much time to fully explore these sites but I had to represent:

Royalty Free Music
Public Domain 4U
Musopen
Sound Snap
Find Sounds

This also makes me more aware of the copy write world; you never know what kind of people could come after you for the smallest thing you broadcast to the public. I have always been scared of something like that happening to me without even knowing it. It’s also pretty wild to be thinking about how many different things are copyrighted. Could I get caught without even knowing it if something I made was too similar to another persons?

At the end of the post they had a video example of sound mixing. In the beginning it really caught my attention with the dramatic music and what seemed to be a principle of a school saying that boy needs some sort of punishment! I almost felt like I was the one being yelled at. Then when the bass line dropped it caught me and I had to finish the video.



This was a sweet post to find and I look forward to exploring those websites more.