Epidemic Sound — Perfect Sound Effects and Tracks for Your Videos |Music Tech Alliance
In recent years, the grow-up of podcast and Youtube channels increase the demand of soundtracks, good soundtracks make videos and podcast more vivid and interesting. Epidemic Sound provides music licensing for video, film and YouTube saving the time of searching for royalty-free music.
Epidemic Sound Features— Amazing Sound Effects Library
Epidemic Sound is a Swedish music production company with headquarters in Stockholm. In compare with music streaming app like Spotify, the music and sound effects on Epidemic Sound website can be downloaded legally after paying money to get digital rights.
There are 35 thousand songs and 90 thousand sound effects at Epidemic Sound. I think the key feature of Epidemic Sound is many kinds of sound effects. They are animals, voices, ambience and more. All of them are available to listen and purchase. Epidemic Sound provides most common audio format of wav and mp3.
A tip of searching for the sound effect and music you want is using the function of “Find Similar” as below screenshot. It’s is convenient and you can add the sounds you like into your own playlist on Epidemic Sound website.
Epidemic Sound Features— Music with Instrumental Tracks
There are many well-organized genres and moods help users search for music according to users’ preference on website. And each song has instrumental tracks, you can listen the vocal, bass and drum part of a song individually.
Epidemic Sound Features — Filter the Soundtracks Quickly
Saving the time of searching for right music is important for video editors. Epidemic Sound provides the way of filtering the BPM and length of music as below demo.
Pricing and Copyright
There are two ways of getting the music license at Epidemic Sound. One is buying a single track or a sound effect at one time, the other one is joining the monthly subscription.
Buy a Single Track or a Sound Effect Once
Please take this pricing list as reference, this is for single track license. Please make sure your videos whether publish on social media and where to publish. Those factors have an impact on the pricing you have to pay.
Monthly Subscription
If you’re not sure how many songs and sound effects you need, I suggest you try 30-day free trial. There are personal and commercial subscriptions, the difference between them is the copyright scope and licensing platforms. Business subscription is not only licensed to a company but also company’s clients and business.
Furthermore, you are allowed to soundtrack the websites and digital ads in commercial subscription, but you’re not allowed to soundtrack TV shows and TV ads. Here is the detail information of subscriptions, please confirm your requirement before you subscribe.
Epidemic Sound makes musician’s benefit and values broaden into commercial level, musician’s income not only from music streaming service but come from commercial licensing. They deserved a better reward. Let’s appreciate their music now!
