looking for suggestions for a website distributor to sell my sounds

[kevgarlic]

I have been professional recording audio since 2009 and have a fairly decent library which I would like to sell.

Can anybody recommend a good Web Sound Distributor ??

 

Thanks. Kevin/Illinois

 

http://freesound.org/people/kvgarlic/sounds/377759/

[soundmanjohn]

Kevin,

I use these people: https://www.asoundeffect.com

and also these people: http://www.sonniss.com/sound-effects/

to sell my libraries. They expect well-prepared files and metadata (Soundminer helps) and will take a cut of the sale price.

Be warned that the market seems to be  saturated at the moment, so your material needs either to be very different or very well presented; preferably both. Bigger (lots of huge files) seems to be better, almost regardless of quality of content, at the moment, but I guess that'll settle down. The major effects guys sell from their own web-sites, using custom set-ups and I tried this for a while until a ridiculous tax law aimed at big business came in and screwed everything up for small traders in Europe. As you're in the USA, this needn't worry you and I used these guys https://getdpd.com/ to set up a web distribution service. Not cheap, but very efficient.

Best of luck,

 

John

 

[kevgarlic]

Thanks for the quick reply John.  I've been prepping my audio files and meticously tweaking the metadata for the last several months, yeah....from the research I've been doing it does seem the #1 priority to have both good data and audio.  Thanks for the observation that the market s saturated.  I won't say that my product   --  mostly audio from nature   -- is extremely unique, BUT it is very high quality---96khz and great mics almost all recorded in stereo. 

Interesting that lots of huge files now seems to be better; I often just let my machine run for 30 minutes at least.  I probably need to continue to do these types of long-form recordings.  Good luck to you as well.

Kevin

[engaudio]

I use bandcamp for my recordings.

FYI, the domestic market is saturated too. None of the nature recordists I know make ANY money from just selling recordings, SFX libraries seem to be the way to go at the moment. Be prepared to have your material stolen too, mine are all over the web for free but that's another post..

Grant.

http://naturesounds.co.nz

https://soundcloud.com/naturesounds_nz

 

[mikewest]

I have my stuff on a US website

What really sells are people sounds

mike

[Constantin]

When I was doing Sound Design, I seemed to mostly use Sounddogs. Apart from my own sounds and commercial archives that is. Quality varies greatly there though. So maybe that's something?

 

[dfisk]

Check out things like the Unity Asset Store. Unity is a video game engine, and they have an asset store where people buy visual assets, like textures and characters. It's pretty lacking in the sound effects world. There's stuff on there, but it's not very good.