corporate music libraries

PegLeg Media

PegLeg Media

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I am working a new job and consistantly need copyright free music for corporate videos. Mainly psa's, sad and upbeat interview pieces. I bought video copilots sfx and pro scores bundle but only a few tracks work for my new job. I have purchased a few good tracks off audio jungle but I am looking for a library of multiple tracks so I dont have to keep buying individual songs. I had an internship at one place that had a videohelper (i think) library that was great, but I cannot find dvd libraries similar to this when i search. Most the videos will be for youtube but some will be television psa's so I need them to be copyright free and allowed to be used for television. Any recommendations? Thanks!
 
Alex H. said:
Have you tried reading the yellow sticky threads at the top of the sound forum?

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthrea...s!-You-CAN-license-music-for-your-video!-quot
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all those websites are confusing and a pain in the butt to use. One had good libraries but the copyright expires after 1 year. Anyone have recommendations for a library for cheap that they have found good for different types of corporate projects? I would rather use garageband than almost all of those websites music for commercial work
 
Confusing and a pain?

What do you consider cheap?

Have you searched google for royalty free music library or buyout production music libraries?
 
David W. Jones said:
Confusing and a pain?

What do you consider cheap?

Have you searched google for royalty free music library or buyout production music libraries?
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Yes. Video Co Pilot was the only easy website to go on and just buy a music dvd royalty free... But they mainly just have movie scores and sfx, I am trying to find similar dvd's with corporate and promotional music pieces.
 
Digital Juice, which is on the stickie BTW is almost all "corporate" music in their various music packages. Buy it and they send you DVD's not sure how that can be "complicated". I don't think you looked too hard.

As a FYI if you want to move up in this biz you really need to have a little more perseverance. You are going to be asked to find/ get things a LOT more difficult than this and if you can't do it there are a ton of folks waiting in the wings for a chance to show that they can.

Not a knock just a heads up because film and video is not a very forgiving work environment.
 
Noiz2 said:
Digital Juice, which is on the stickie BTW is almost all "corporate" music in their various music packages. Buy it and they send you DVD's not sure how that can be "complicated". I don't think you looked too hard.

As a FYI if you want to move up in this biz you really need to have a little more perseverance. You are going to be asked to find/ get things a LOT more difficult than this and if you can't do it there are a ton of folks waiting in the wings for a chance to show that they can.

Not a knock just a heads up because film and video is not a very forgiving work environment.
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I just really didnt like the songs in the Corporate & Broadcast dvd they had on preview. I had 2 internships a while back and they both had libraries of over probably 75 songs that were all very good. I dont have these people's contacts anymore b/c they are no longer with the companies I interned for but I have yet to find a single library as good as those people had. I was just on here hoping somebody could recomend a library not listed in the sticky. And the last place I worked had 2 guys create custom music to every project we created so i didnt have to worry about that. Garage band has some good stuff (better than pretty much every website in the sticky) but these songs are all used too much so I dont want to keep using them.
 
Fresh Music Library (also in the sticky) sells CDs and has a really good selection. I have Digital Juice's BackTraxx 1 and 2, and though they as many similar economy packages can be hit and miss, there's some good stuff in there.

Also, though it is not a buyout library collection, Pond5 (also in the sticky) has a huge selection with some really great gems. Licenses vary, but most of them are buyout/perpetual.

If you want the Cadillac of music libraries, you're going to have to pay a lot. DeWolfe and Killer Tracks are not cheap, and require both annual licenses and needle-drop fees.
 
What are in the stickies are mostly, maybe all, Royalty Free music. Many ad houses used to and probably still use a lot of needle drop music. Now you are talking a grand or so per use.

The problem for asking for things like "better" is that better for what and to whom?

Some of the stuff DJ has sold is quite good and is actual musicians. A lot though, as much of the royalty free market, is synth stuff. Some sounds pretty good but you can pretty much always tell a live performance with real instruments from a programed one. Since you think Garage Band is pretty good I'm guessing that is not an issue for you.

But again your question is a little like what is the best music out there? Actually that is almost exactly your question. So people with different tastes are going to give you different answers. What is probably a better way to pose the question is to name some things that you like and ask if anybody knows of comparable pieces. Or at least comparable styles.

For instance to me pretty much all of the "stack traxx" (they are selling something slightly different I believe right now) are to "corporate" and synthy. I got a bunch when they were on sale because every once in awhile I need that over the top "corporate" sound for a fake TV bit or??? They also used to sell two collections called "Backtrax". Those had a lot mor acoustic recordings and a lot of "sound alike" recordings. They work well in various scenes where you need it to sound like music that "feels" real but you don't have to pay a lot for and it's going to be in the BG. Or again for that fake TV show or film.

Band in the Box is also great for generating music that is close enough for party BG music and you can out put the MIDI file and pick very synthy instruments and get elevator music pretty easily.

My needs are squarely in the feature film and ad market so they probably are not yours but if you explain your market needs then folks who work more in that area can probably give you more specific suggestions.

Of course if you can swing a composer that is the best solution, providing they can write the kinds of things you need.
 
Band-In-A-Box is a very useful program! Especially if you're actually musical at all; you can probably get better/more unique/hipper stuff than you would with GB.

GJ
 
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