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Anyone getting seriously into audio?  Which sites are you using?

I am on half vacation / half working the next couple months and thought perhaps it might be a nice time to round out my port with a little audio while I am out and about.  ... maybe that is about as effective as shooting stock photos while you are out and about but capturing audio would be more about fun than anything at this point.

microstockphoto.co.uk:
I am getting into audio right now, "FUN" is the key indeed. "Seriously", I hope but it's too soon to tell.
Not sure if my neighbours will find it equally fun.

I received my new PCM recorder last week and it's working great. I made some experiments and it seems that recording at 44/24 is the best option: gives plenty of headroom for "lossless" editing before the final export as 44/16; 88/24 is overkill. The only editing I had to do is volume adjustment and (sometimes) bandstop filters: it's faster than pictures.

Digital recording means zero background noise theoretically, but I found out that there's a lot of background noise in the surrounding environment, it's very difficult to record a low sound such as birds, wind, rain without catching a plane or car or dog. Recording industrial machines (drills ,hammers, ...) is funnier but I am not sure it's much in need - there are a lot of those sounds already. I must admit that I find it difficult for now to think about useful sounds stockwise.

The best site that comes to my mind is Pond5 of course.

Would be nice to know if there's an IPTC equivalent for audio but I asked in another thread and got no answers so I am afraid there isn't - or no one is interested in audio.

I wonder why no site (that I know) accepts .FLAC: lossless compression, so they could automatically create both .WAV and .MP3

Dreamframer:
I'm selling audio too. By far the best sellers are Audiosparx and Pond5. Both have constant sales and give 40-60% of earnings to artists. I have few sales worth more than $150 each at Audiosparx.
There are sites that pay thousands of dollars (like Musicdealers) but you really need to be lucky. One of my instrumentals was chosen with few others for a job worth $20 000, but it wasn't a winner.
Both Audiosparx and Musicdealers (and many others) don't accept artists who sell audio through Istockphoto and other cheap agencies.
There is one more site sells from time to time (Revostock).

In general, being on these few sites I earned much more than I was earning on Istock. The move from Istock to these other agencies wasn't easy, since I had to upload and configure everything again, but I didn't regret it.

There was a good place to read reviews of many audio libraries, but they closed the website for guests. Since I was a member, they provided me with one more month of free service. The address is http://musiclibraryreport.com/ratings/
I hope this helps,
Ivan

Sean Locke Photography:
My Sony recorder has been sitting in my cabinet collecting dust.  IS soundfx sales are few and far between, both for my "natural" audio, and my voice over type clips.  Some music that I thought would sell well during baseball season hardly sells at all.  So, my IS experiment showed not much success.  Maybe I will upload somewhere else if I get the time.

icefloe:

--- Quote from: Dreamframer on June 26, 2011, 17:48 ---Both Audiosparx and Musicdealers (and many others) don't accept artists who sell audio through Istockphoto and other cheap agencies.
There is one more site sells from time to time (Revostock).

In general, being on these few sites I earned much more than I was earning on Istock. The move from Istock to these other agencies wasn't easy, since I had to upload and configure everything again, but I didn't regret it.

There was a good place to read reviews of many audio libraries, but they closed the website for guests. Since I was a member, they provided me with one more month of free service. The address is http://musiclibraryreport.com/ratings/
I hope this helps,
Ivan

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Interesting! I am exclusive on istock today and doing only sfx. I dont know much about how other audio stock sites works and it's always interesting to hear other peoples experiences. I was checking pricing of sfx on some of the other sites but couldn't see there was a big diffenece from iStock, but maybe the royalties are better?

I read on Audiosparx about that they don't accept artists who sell audio through Istockphoto and some others, but one of the first artists I found there is also selling on istock (as nonexclusive of course) so I dont know how hard they really are on this.

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