How to Make Money from Sound Effects

By SFXsource

A well planned sound effect library will return profits online when marketed as single downloadable products. Sound effect buyers seem to be moving away from purchasing full libraries of thousands of sounds and are instead buying small batches of audio clips as downloadable products since faster internet speeds now accommodate online purchasing. As a sound designer you may use the pointers that follow to design a well purposed library that will successfully access the downloadable internet stream.

1. The first rule in creating a profitable sound effect library is to record and edit hundreds if not thousands of sounds. Three thousand sound effects is a good goal to provide enough choices for interested buyers.

2. Video editors like to use loops that they can fit to particular scenes so create loopable elements from longer ambiances such as traffic noise.

3. A wide variety is better than a small variety with tons of repetition so its preferable to have 10 different ambiances of three clips each then one ambiance type of 30 clips.

4. Make various file types of your library for such as 48k 24bit for video editing, 44.1 16bit for flash use, .wav files for PC users and .aiffs for Mac users.

5. Market your sound effect library through as many online distributors as possible in order to reach the broadest range of possible customers and maximize your sales.

6. You might find that creating your own e-commerce site to sell your sites might well be worth it in the long run. You can promote your e-commerce site by link exchanges, writing articles, and forum participation.

Following the above tips will allow you to increase the marketability of your site and thus increase your sales as more and more internet users arrive online and the potential number of sound effect buyers increases through time.

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