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Opening my sample online company
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| kopi_luwak |
Hello guys,
I am about to open my own company selling samples, so before to set up all I would like your feedback.
My plans are to sell ambiance samples from Mexico, I have plans to call the series mystal Mexico. The samples w0uld be about 3/5 minutes, this is some stuff I will record:
Ruins - Ambient/Ambiance noises in Chichen Itza, Teotihuacan, etc, and some special
series recorded during the equinoxe.
Chamanes - Here in Mexico we have a lot of chamanes, wizards, and I know places where they still making rituals, singing, dancing, etc, I want to record this people, lots of hours of this stuff.
Sea, Wind - Cancun beaches, wind, etc.
Urban - Cars, Buses, Subway, Train, Markets, Events, etc
What do you think? What would you like to see, what would you buy?
Thanks in advance and please, clown replys will be deleted.
Kopi =o. |
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| Storyteller |
| These kinds of sounds are mostly of interest to sound designers for movies and such. I don't think the audience your looking for is here. Hope you're gonna do okay :) Because it sure sounds interesting! |
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| Chronosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
These kinds of sounds are mostly of interest to sound designers for movies and such. I don't think the audience your looking for is here. |
Not everyone is making melodic trance. :) And even then, sounds of sea/wind are not unknown... But for deeper, progressive styles these kind of samples are great! |
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| Storyteller |
| c'mon get real, how many songs use anything mentioned above other than the shore sounds, and what would any more shore sounds add the the tons already available (for free if you must!). |
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| DJ Shibby |
Very cool!
I think it's a great idea to diversify the genre! |
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| Chronosis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
c'mon get real, how many songs use anything mentioned above other than the shore sounds, and what would any more shore sounds add the the tons already available (for free if you must!). |
Lots of tracks use ritual-kind-of chantings. Meaning tracks like: F.S.O.L - Papua New Guinea, Way Out West - Killa, Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim. Those aren't real ritual vocals, but original stuff might be interesting (I hope they can sing ;)).
And as for those urban sounds (train, market, events), there's hell of a lot tracks that use those kind of sounds. Especially in chill genres. Talking about artists like: Shpongle, Boards Of Canada, F.S.O.L, Banco De Gaia.
Personally I would love to hear more of these kind of samples used. |
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| DigiNut |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
c'mon get real, how many songs use anything mentioned above other than the shore sounds, and what would any more shore sounds add the the tons already available (for free if you must!). |
I can definitely see the use for it in ambient/new-age music as well as tribal house and techno.
I might be persuaded into springing for such a sample library if it had some "loopable" pieces (I don't necessarily mean tempo-synced or acidized, but more in the context of something that could be overlayed over a 2- or 4-bar phrase with the appropriate amount of envelope/crossfade). Especially with the chants and such; those can be very useful on dance tracks but they have to be fairly clean.
Anyway, I guess I'd really have to hear examples of this stuff before saying anything definitive - sounds like an interesting idea though.  |
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| Tygon |
There's always a need for such samples... the tricky part would be marketing them. There's soooo many sample library companies out there, the key would be who to approach and how to sell them.
On top of the above mentioned genres.... video games, movies, TV shows, commercials (radio and TV) are always using such libraries. Keep an open mind, and you'll do ok. I would suggest a low investment for your first attempt. Selling online is a great way to cut costs.
Good luck man! |
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| JustinMead |
| I know Way Out West and ATB use these kinds of sounds. If some TAers can get a discount then maybe i will get these :D jj |
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| Specimen303 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
c'mon get real, how many songs use anything mentioned above other than the shore sounds, and what would any more shore sounds add the the tons already available (for free if you must!). |
For couple of my industrial/schranz songs, i've used samples of metal factory, traffic, all sorts of stuff that you might get annoyed by when you trying focus on something at work. And for a hardstyle/-trance tracks I sometimes use cliché horror elements, like: broking glass, all sorts tinkling and clatter..etc. Those mixed with distorted Acid basslines and other dark sounds + humouristic movie samples (for example lines from old zombie movies or thrillers that are taken off the context and alone sounds absurd) and you have a song. I always imagine some story or a scene in my mind and then the song becomes like a soundtrack to that scene. That's how I keep up my creativity. |
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| kopi_luwak |
| quote: | Originally posted by Storyteller
c'mon get real, how many songs use anything mentioned above other than the shore sounds, and what would any more shore sounds add the the tons already available (for free if you must!). |
I do, ambient tracks are full of this sounds ;).
All would be sold at fiberlineaudio, they are making a section for this once I got all done :D, the prices will be way cheaper than the libraries you see usually, this samples are pretty expencive usually, for example the other way I was looking for one of wind and desert noises, and I found a pack with 5 cd's in 500 bucks! So I would sell this in a pretty good price, each CD sample about 15 bucks or 20, depening of what, the shaman chants would be 20 though, and yup they can sing and pretty cool, have heard them before in special dates here and with reverb and delay would be blast!
Thanks for your comments guys, taking all in consideration and of course TA would have a best price, all users with 6 months here would get a 50% off ;).
Kopi =o. |
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| FuzzyGreen |
| I would be interested in this. |
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