Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#1

Post by lukasm » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 8:16 PM UTC

I'd like to get some music to my game trailer. I've looked at audiojungle.net, but I'm not happy with the quality. I googled a lot and find ramenmusic.com

Is there any other option?

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#2

Post by danny3stacks » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 8:45 PM UTC

https://www.marmosetmusic.com/ has some great tracks.

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#3

Post by wtracy » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 8:48 PM UTC

These independent sources will license music on a royalty-free basis:

http://magnatune.com/info/licensing https://pro.jamendo.com/stock-music-licensing

Musopen claims to host all recordings that are in the public domain, but many are posted anonymously or semi-anonymously and I'd be leery of using them without doing some legwork first. (It's all classical music, which probably isn't what you want, anyway.)

https://musopen.org/

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#4

Post by jmlee2k » Thu, Mar 06, 2014, 9:05 PM UTC

melodyloops.com has some good quality stuff.

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#5

Post by Joyfield » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 12:12 AM UTC

https://www.shockwave-sound.com/

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#6

Post by cmos » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 1:09 AM UTC

Moby has a site.. though it appears to be for film, you could ask about a video game. http://www.mobygratis.com/

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#7

Post by wturner » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 1:10 AM UTC

I really enjoyed the subtle humor of how hiring an individual sound engineer/musician to actually compose something wasn't even considered an option by the responses thus far.

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#8

Post by josh_nyc » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 2:41 AM UTC

My team and I run a boutique production studio in NYC and we love composing music to visuals. Shoot me an email at "josh at soundassociation dot com" and let's discuss your project!

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#9

Post by josh_nyc » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 2:43 AM UTC

josh_nyc wrote: post #8

My team and I run a boutique production studio in NYC and we love composing music to visuals. Shoot me an email at "josh at soundassociation dot com" and let's discuss your project!

http://www.soundassociation.com/work showcases some audio scores we created.

Re: Ask HN: High quality music for my game trailer

#10

Post by lukasm » Fri, Mar 07, 2014, 10:00 AM UTC

wturner wrote: post #7

I really enjoyed the subtle humor of how hiring an individual sound engineer/musician to actually compose something wasn't even considered an option by the responses thus far.

It's definitely an option.