Thursday, November 30, 2006

Where to buy production music

I've always thought the best way to create a good product or service is to come up with something that I would buy. After all, I'm a consumer. I like to look for the biggest bang for the buck when I shop. In other words, what's the most I can get in quality and style for the least amount of money? I bought a home with a pool six years ago for well under market value. I drive one of the safest cars on the road, a 2005.5 Volkswagen Jetta. And even though I create production music for sell here at Audiobag, I also buy music from other companies for some of my own voiceover projects. I have certain things I look for in an online production music library that I thought I'd pass along.

First, I look for a production music website that gives me instant download capability. I don't want to wait a week to receive my music on a CD. Next, I look (okay, listen) for professional-sounding music. Easy on the midi stuff, please. Give me some horns, acoustic guitars, flutes, bassoons, and strings. And finally, I look for a price that's under $30 per track. Small production companies don't make a lot of profit doing voiceover work, so we don't have a lot to spend on production music. You can find some great music tracks online for under $30. In fact, you can find some great music tracks for under $30 if you visit our Audiobag website(http://www.audiobag.com/). Our prices start at just $5.77 for a music transition (note the blatant product plug).

I'm always amazed that someone would spend more than $30 for a music track when there's so much out there for under $30. We have lots of competition -- and they're good, too! In fact, it's the other production music companies that inspire me to keep improving and adding to the Audiobag music library. If you don't find something you like at Audiobag(http://audiobag.com/music.html), check out GMP (http://www.genemichaelproductions.com/), Stock20 (http://stock20.com/), Music Bakery (http://www.musicbakery.com/), and Shockwave-Sound (http://www.shockwave-sound.com/). Each of these companies offer instant downloading, quality music, and great pricing. Enjoy!