This is a completely non-sponsored video of epidemic sound i'm going to give you
an inside look at what epidemic sound looks
like. Epidemic sound did not pay me to make this video
however full disclosure they did give me an affiliate link which
is in the link in the description use it if you'd like you get a free 30-day
trial or don't it's up to you. Now just within
the last few weeks epidemic sound did a complete
redesign from their previous UX so let's go here and try it for free
but basically i'll show you what it's like being a paid user
the first thing epidemic sound will have you do is add your channels
if you're a filmmaker and you're doing a lot of client work
there might be some platforms that could be better for you besides epidemic sound
and i'm coming up at it from the perspective of myself
being a youtube creator and the filmmaker well video maker i guess
and also more a singer songwriter and musician.
so this is what it would look like on the home page of
searching for sounds you have featured genres moods and albums and
i'm usually always just skipping these featured sections because i'm more
interested in getting to moods right away for example most of
my videos the music i use is more background music
so i want it to be noticeable but not too noticeable
energetic but not too energetic so i usually start with
laid back and then from there i go deeper because
you can be choosing a multiple different moods and genres
for each search for example search for dreamy laid-back
or i can add a relaxing laid-back filter that to that and then i
could also go over the genre genres here an alternative hip-hop
because i do like the beats and alternative hip-hop
so now my total search terms are laid back
alternative hip-hop and hopeful as soon as i do find one i'm interested in i
usually go ahead here and download the entire track if i find
that i like certain parts of the track but not
other parts i do have the option to click this button here which downloads
all these stems in a zip file for you and what the stems are means they are
the respective instruments in that song usually spit in split into
drums bass guitars and usually make melody or synth
instruments so it's nice to have the option to take
the only download the stems and use that because it gives you more flexibility in
your projects and i haven't seen this in other sites
so that is a big competitive advantage for them sometimes what
happens a lot here is when i'm continuing to search here i find a song
i kind of like but i want to see other songs that are
like that songs and it's perfect with epidemic sound you just go to these two
circles here and it would find similar songs to this
shoes song off so as a paid user that's how i would go about searching for based
on moods you can do the same thing with albums
typically not going out and using full albums but
let's say you are very into creative photography here and then we can look at
songs that are great for creative photography it's very similar to some of
the other royalty free music sites that have search
filters based on video themes and epidemics sound they don't
actually do it as a filter but more a top level search some
other big albums would be glamping podcast promos intros outros
world grooves as you can see there are many and you can go and view more here
which has an extensive list of these albums genre is another one you can
start at top at the top going genres and then also be going down a
level into moods you can cycle back and forth between
genre and moods featured is the same thing
featured is just like epidemic sound is constantly
putting new music 150 songs a week i think
more than any other platform and by far the biggest music catalog
platform out there another big one is sound effects and i'm
really looking for different sound effects in for my more storytelling vlog
videos and so when we navigate over to sound
effects similar types of filtering in in a sense there are like
whoosh ambiance footsteps weather animals and
you can click these boxes and go into them so let's for example go into
this woosh box you'll notice here there's no those two
circles that are linked together we have the option to just download this
sound which would just become in a small little
sound file we can add to our cart or we can
actually put it to a playlist playlists are also a nice
feature if you want to start your own playlist maybe you're happy to listen to
a song you hear one that might fit later on really well to something
else just add it to your playlist there are some other search terms on the
side here sort by popularity sort by recent
sort by az length shortest or longest um i'm not using those hardly ever but
they are there so this is what it looks like on your
account if you are an epidemic sound user you can create a playlist here you
have your favorite tracks here that you've already downloaded and
then your playlist here for example i have vlog music and then i
have used vlog music which i take playlists off my take
songs off of my vlog music playlist and put them on my used vlog music playlist
because i'm using so many sounds sometimes i forget the sounds that i
already used so i can double check that sometimes
download section which actually has all the sounds you've downloaded in the past
week and past month and then there is a referral program as
well just like there is a link in my description for you to use if you want
that free day trial you can sign up for epidemic sound and get your
own referral link as well and last thing here is the search bar at
the top where we can actually just search for whatever we want artists on
what i wish they had and some things i don't like some things i do really like
um please feel free to check out that review in the description
and if you are interested in hearing some of my own music although it is not
on epidemic sound i do have it on spotify and everywhere else
please feel free i'll leave another more links in the description for you
hope to see you in the next video