this is a completely non-sponsored review i just wanted to
lay out the things i really like about epidemic sound and the things i
don't like or wish they had. I think i come at it from a unique perspective
because i am a video maker but i am also a musician
and singer songwriter. Although this is a completely non-sponsored video full
disclosure there is a link in the description
which is an affiliate link and will give you a 30 day free trial on epidemic
sound. Feel free to use it or don't. My promise
to you though is at the end of the video you should have a stronger
foothold on these five different categories that we'll go through with
epidemic sound the first one is their music catalog the
second one is the music discovery and search third is
price fourth is licensing and fifth would be the standout features that
really make epidemic sound a different royalty-free music site than any of the
other royalty free music sites there are out there so
do stick around for that as well at the end of the video number one the music
catalog on epidemic sound they do have the largest music catalog i
think they're adding about 150 songs every week from different creators
and the quality is still high right because then on the other hand you have
some of these other free royalty music sites
that give you free music to download for example the youtube music sound
library or free music archive i believe the music and the music
catalog on epidemic sound is unique and not
everywhere else some of the sounds on art list
of your creator and you put your music on the artless world to music-free site
i believe you can also be selling this music elsewhere as well
that's just a different terms and conditions that each of these sites have
which is a pro for epidemic sound because they can then say that
their music catalog is completely unique and i've always found that the sounds
are unique and the sounds are at a quality level
in terms of actually what you hear on spotify and apple music the search and
discovery of music how easy or difficult is it to find music
that are that is good for the video you're
looking to make there are a couple different things that are happening on
epidemic sound versus some other sites for example most sites are
tagging by genre and by mood and by tempo and length and these very
standard filter terms where where i think the difference
lies is in how the design of those filters comes into play
i did find that artless was the best design
until about one or two months ago when epidemic sound did a redesign and now i
think epidemic sound is at the top of their game
let's start with moods first epic track dreamy
actually switch over to genres and go beats which gives us
five songs with those tagged filters i can easily see that i have filters
selected in moods and genres and then i can easily
be clicking these x's here to take those filters off to increase the amount of
songs available within that search for example on some other royalty-free
music sites those nested terms are hidden within the navigation and
it's not easy to see outright like this so i do find that although the filters
are the same are the same across all the royalty-free
music sites that epidemic sound in its current state and maybe for the
next year or so will be the top runner for their how
they lay out these filters let's move on to some of the other
search and discovery features inside epidemic sound where if we're actually
going through these tracks now easily easy play buttons on the side here
and we like this need you back song with this which is an instrumental version
under dreamy laid back and beats we like the song but it just is not hitting
the vibe for us there's a couple things we can do we can
press this two circle icon here which will give us songs that
sound similar to this need you back
instrumental so we can go through these similar tracks and maybe we like one
better than the need you back song or we can go back
here and we can also be clicking this download button and then have the
option to download all stems what i find if i don't like a track
usually it's like the one thing about the track i don't really
like so we have the option to download the stems
which are the respective instruments in the track so if you don't like the drums
you can take that out and use every other part in the song sometimes
you just want a bass line or sometimes you just want
to beat to give a bit of the video energy besides music we have
search for sound effects which is more or less the same minus some things
for example in sound effects we don't have this
fine similar option let's take a look at the third category now which is price
fairly straightforward as well we have this personal plan which is great if you
are just a youtube creator and you just want
to have sounds for one channel you are cover for
monetization which is great so if you download a song and you can make
money from that video you can turn on youtube monetization the next plan on
top of that is the commercial plan at 49 euros a month or
29 euros per year if you're a filmmaker you're covered for their accounts so if
they're making a video and that sound epidemic sound is on their
account you're covered for that because it's under your commercial plan
let's move on to the next category which is licensing if you are a youtube
creator the licensing is based on your channel
and so as you mentioned if you have one youtube channel then you can get one
personal account for one youtube channel if you want to license more music for
other channels then you have to up your plan what happens if you don't
pay for epidemic sound anymore and you still
have this downloaded sound library on your
macbook or whatever well you can't use those songs anymore if you do decide to
use them you will risk getting that copyright complaint if
you're a freelancer and you don't really care about social
channels at all you don't have a youtube channel you're not a creator at all
in terms of the social aspect but you're more of a freelancer doing specific
video projects for other clients maybe you
also want to be looking at some other royalty-free music sites like art list
the last category let's recap on some of the stando features that i really
like about using epidemic sound and i rely on epidemic sound for these
features because no other platform has the first
one being the find similar button i use it a lot when i find a song
that's just not the right fit and then the latter one being the stems
and i use the stems almost all the time i'm
downloading stems instead of the full mix because i
like to customize what you don't like about it and what
you do like about it please put in the comments prove me wrong at all
in any point of this video if you want to hear some of my own music it's all
available on spotify and apple music unfortunately
it's not on epidemic sound i haven't actually given them
my music at all please feel free to subscribe and hope to see you in the
next video