- Is Epidemic Sound good?
Is it worth it?
I'm gonna do a review to show you
exactly what it is you can expect
from Epidemic Sound, and we're starting right now.
(trap music)
What's going on?
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Okay, I get pummeled on questions about Epidemic Sound,
because I always have it in my video description,
so people are always asking me,
"Is it any good, is it worth it?
"What kind of songs do they have?" and things like that.
I'm gonna take you on a full walkthrough
of Epidemic Sounds so you can know exactly what to expect.
For this, we're gonna need to be on the computer,
so let's head over to there, and I'll take you on the tour.
Okay, so just a heads up, as we're going through this,
if you're like, "Hey, this is for me, I dig this,"
I've got a link to Epidemic Sound
down in the description below,
where you can actually sign up for a free 30 day trial.
Now, when you log in, you're going to see staff picks,
and this is basically the things
that the staff at Epidemic Sounds is digging right now.
Some really good stuff actually pops up here,
so I would always hit this, I actually always do hit this
as soon as I log in, just because they give
some really good suggestions.
So, as you scroll on the page,
they also have some other picks
to where they kind of curate everything,
they kind of group it together
depending on what it is you're trying to use it for,
the content creator, obviously,
you wanna go into this one, and then
if you scroll all the way down here at the bottom,
they also have the latest album releases,
which is also really cool, so if you want
to stay up to date on like, what's happening
right now in terms of the stuff that they're releasing
so that you can be putting these songs out with your vlogs
and with your videos before a bunch of people
start using 'em, this is a fantastic way
to stay on top of that, it's basically,
you log into this initial page, then you just scroll down,
you look and see what the staff is recommending,
and you come down and you see the latest
stuff that they've released.
Now, once you're inside of Epidemic Sound,
if you click on the browse option,
then what you're going to see here is
you're going to see a bunch of different sorting options,
different ways that you can find the music in here.
So, you can browse by genre, you can browse by mood,
you can browse by movement, for example,
what this means is like, busy and frantic,
or changing tempo, or marching, or running,
depending on the type of content that you're making,
then you'll say, okay, which one of these
types of movements would fit what it is
that I'm trying to express in my video,
and of course, you can also do that this way, too,
in terms of the energy or the tempo,
and depending on what you're using the video for,
like, maybe you just need a minute worth of this
because you're going to use a bunch of different tracks,
or maybe you're just trying to highlight
a specific point of your video,
then in that particular case, then you
could just go with a 20, 30, or 60 second clip,
or you can click on this to make sure
that the only stuff that you're seeing
is actually full length clips.
Now, if we go back into the genre section,
where this gets cool is like, let's say that hip hop,
for example, something that I'm looking for,
and then I can click on this down arrow right here,
and then I can have all, to where
it's gonna show me all hip hop, or it's giving me
subcategories of different types of hip hop
that I can actually click on, as well.
Personally, I'm digging the trap stuff right now,
so this is the one that I typically go to
to look for what it is that I'm trying to get.
So, in addition to the browse options,
you can also go to the albums option,
and with the albums option, as we scroll down this page,
there's a lot of different album options,
and of course, you know, it goes on, and on, and on, and on,
so it looks like 29 pages plus this Christmas section
of albums that they have here,
so that's a ton of different songs to choose from.
So then, once you click into the actual album itself,
then it's going to give you all the different song listings.
It's gonna tell you over here the energy of the track,
the beats per minute, the category,
the actual genre that it's in,
and the cool thing about Epidemic Sound
is they don't just put the trap stuff in here
unless it's a specific trap album.
They'll make different genres of music
that they'll put in here for the sake
of giving you the option for the specific
type of thing that you're going for in that.
In this case, it would be ominous and eerie.
Now, here's something that I personally love
about Epidemic Sound and what makes them
really stand apart from pretty much
every other music service out there, let me show you this.
So, if I click on Lunatic, so here,
you can hear that it's playing this initial part
for me, right, and you can see the waveform down here
to where you can see where the rest of the song
comes in, where the drums come in.
Listen.
("Lunatic" by _91ultra)
Okay.
So, with that, let's say for example
that I don't want the drums.
Let's say that I'm listening to that
and I think to myself, hey, this little area
right up here, this is fantastic,
I wish I had a longer version of that,
what I can do, is I can go to the stems, right,
and I can click on this, and then right here,
I can just listen to the melody stem,
and then I can download the melody stem
by itself if I wanted just the bass or just the drums.
This right here for me is where
Epidemic Sound really shines.
Let me show you an example.
So, if I click on this,
("Lunatic" by _91ultra, melody only)
it's only playing that, all the rest of it is gone.
Now if I click on it again, and we're gonna go to the drums,
("Lunatic" by _91ultra, drums only)
then if I only want the drums, then I've got that.
("Lunatic" by _91ultra, additional instruments only)
And then here, we've got additional instruments.
So, I can basically break all this stuff down
in however I want it to be, so if I want
to just use the bass, I've got it.
If I want just the drums, I've got it.
If I just want the melody, I've got it.
So, I can go up to the full mix, for example,
("Lunatic" by _91ultra)
and if I wanna download this, then what I can do
is I can click here to download it,
and then I can click to download the full mix,
or I can click to download all stems, okay,
and when I download all stems, it's gonna give me all those
separately, so I can use those completely separate.
I can even take all the different songs
that I like in here, I can match up
the beats per minute, and I can actually
make my own version of songs here using the different
Epidemic Sound tracks, which is pretty awesome.
So, another thing, as well, when I go
into this melody stem, if I just want
this melody stem, then I can just click on download here,
and then I can just download that melody stem,
as well, so for me, that's where Epidemic Sound
really, really shines in comparison
to all the other music services that are out there,
so it's their tracks that they have,
just a ton of tracks, a ton of awesome sound effects,
and the music is cool, like, a problem
with a lot of these music services is,
you know, they'll put up a lot of music,
and because they put up a lot of music,
the music itself just isn't that fantastic,
whereas here, everything that I hear is awesome.
Now, with Epidemic Sound, they also have their sound effects
area, so within this, pretty much any sound effect
that you want, for the most part, of course,
within reason, they've got them.
I mean, everything from jets flying by
to Christmas sounds, to drum hits,
to whooshes, so if you have, let's say
you have a logo zooming in and out of your video,
then you can have that sound effect.
Let's say that you have a transition
that you do, you can do sound effects for that
so it gives it kind of that whoosh as it goes by,
but all types of really awesome sound effects, as well.
So, here at the latest tracks,
this basically shows you a listing
of the things that have been recently added
to epidemic sounds, so if you want
to see the actual dates they were added,
you can click on the additional info.
They'll show you the date itself
and they'll show you how they're
actually categorizing this within their system,
along with the genre and category
that you would normally see up here,
and just like all of the rest of the songs
inside of here, as you click on these,
you can listen to them down here in the built in player,
("Tei" by Ooyy)
and then if you find something
that you like, then you can download it here.
You can click on the stems, and of course,
just like I showed you before,
you can take out whichever parts of it that you like.
You can find similar tracks, which is also
a sorting option where it lets you
find tracks that are just like the one
that you're listening to, so if you really
like this one, then it's gonna show you some similar tracks,
and then of course, you can add it to a playlist.
If you have some stuff that you particularly like,
then you can say, I wanna add this to this
particular playlist for this particular vlog,
like, in this case, you know, this is my girlfriend's vlog,
so if there's something that we wanna use for hers,
then we'll just click right here
and then we'll add it to her playlist.
My personal thoughts on Epidemic Sound?
I think they're an amazing service.
I personally use Epidemic Sound
for all of the music in my videos,
for the music on my girlfriend's channel,
my brother uses Epidemic Sound,
all of my YouTube friends use Epidemic Sound.
It's just an amazing service.
I've got a link to them down in the description below.
If you haven't signed up for them yet,
that link will get you a 30 day free trial,
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Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you next time.