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The stuff I edit is mainly for Discovery Channel and National Geographic..with the occassional History Channel gig.  For the Discovery Channel stuff, we have a composer.  No Pump Audio here.

avkills wrote:

Digital Droo wrote:

avkills wrote:

Hey Droo, is that Noise Pump?  FirstCom Music has that library, so I imagine tons of high-end guys sample and use that stuff. BTW, FirstCom is the library I use at work.

Hmmm, just checked it out, looks like a different service. Looks good though.

-mark

I don't know what Noise Pump is, but Pump Audio is a company that shops indie artists' music to agencies, production houses, etc. and takes care of the licensing headaches. They're not a library--they are generally about getting "real" artists' music to film and broadcast. By "'real' artists" I mean, as opposed to buyout or stock music.

Cool. Yeah, FirstCom is kind of like that (although they market themselves as a stock music library), you don't buy-out your music, but rather have a multi-year, however many discs agreement in which you can cycle discs in and out.  It is pretty cool.  but I will be checking out Pump Audio over the next week.

-mark

We use FirstCom at our radio stations for our production library.  They do great stuff...some of the nicest music stock out there for radio broadcast beds.  They seem to get some usage in television as well, and my ear always perks up when I hear a TV ad with the same bed I use for a local spot.