Monday 29 July 2013

The best music marketplace for royalty free production music

You are probably looking for some awesome music at a really affordable price that you can use, royalty free, in your production.  There is good news. 

Good quality music is in reach for most of us.  The days of big music budgets for your TV spot is over.  The new trend is online and the budgets have been cut down immensely.  We have all tried to find free music tracks.  Lets be honest. If you want something good you are gonna have to pay for it.  How much? Most tracks won't cost you more than $25.  Not bad for high quality library music.  Remember, musicians must eat as well! The sites listed below all function in the same manner - they provide the musician with an active marketplace and take a cut of the profits.  This way everyone benefits. Even you. You get top notch music, the legal way, and you are supporting the industry and enabling them to produce more royalty free music.  So get involved!

Take a look at these sites below, I am confident that you will find a song that is perfect.

1) AudioJungle There are over 150,000 songs on there and all of them are priced between $3 and $35. Not bad for top quality production music.

2) Luckstock Brand new kid on the block.  The content is fresh and of a very high quality.

3) Pond5 A massive marketplace that provides many other tools for creatives - not only music.  Their music library is roughly 110,000 strong. Lots of choice!

4) ShockWave Sound Has been around for some time and also offers 100,000 of thousands of library clips to choose from.  The site looks a bit different than other sites but works in the same way.

In my opinion the user experience was pretty good on these sites.  Please leave a comment and share your experience with theses and other royalty free marketplaces you might have stumbled upon.