The Sound-Effects-Library.com has provided an on-line resource of sound effects, music samples and music tracks since 1999, where sounds can be uniquely searched, auditioned and downloaded within a few minutes. It now houses over 200,000 sound files on-line and a back catalogue of over four million sounds spanning decades of motion picture history. Demand from organizations such as Electronic Arts and the Millennium Dome, events companies and museums have fuelled the collaboration of the Sound-Effects-Library with its parent company The Tape Gallery, to create this new on-line sound design service.
Simply send a brief to the e-mail address below, and the Tape Gallery team of award-winning sound designers will create an audio concept for the scenario. Clients will then be asked to approve a quote which will include the cost of the individual sounds and an hourly rate of around of £150.00 for mixing and sound design. Clients are kept abreast through all stages of the production process by lower quality MP3 audition files, and once the final mix has been agreed, a high quality broadcast file or CD master is produced.
Lloyd Billing, managing director of the Tape Gallery, Europe's leading post production facility with five state-of-the-art studios, based in London's Soho, believes the evocative and enduring quality of sound is often overlooked. He has broken down barriers and set new precedents within his own industry by making sound and sound design available to anyone who has access to the Internet. Through partnerships with other sound libraries (most recently the BBC) and enthusiasts around the globe, the Sound-Effects-Library.com is the world’s largest on-line archive of sound, say the company.
(Lee Baldock)
