Crossfade

When you work in the audio world as I do, specifically the audio side of television production, you deal with a lot of canned type of music instrumentals that are preproduced, then sold to various media outlets to enhance their video productions.

At my job we use one such service that has a lot of good music which we use during sports highlights, under edited packages (stories), for promotions and occasionally our creative services team selects a tune to serve as theme music for one of our shows.

Now the problem with this, for me at least, is that I listen to so many songs day in and day out that I know probably 75% of the music in the library we use. Well the real problem is that every other television network uses the same music in some form so I inevitably hear a song that I like to use for hockey highlights on the Discovery Channel for a Shark Week promo. Or I hear a tune that we used in the the Sports Desk open as background music to Nat Geo’s Dog Whisperer.

Now my latest notice of this phenomenon was in this video:

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Once you get past the kick-assness of the TAC-15 crossbow and stop daydreaming about shooting zombies in the head during the apocalypse (forget about the  incredibly slow reload time that will cost you your life) go to 3:39 in the video.

That song you hear there (right after the TAC-15 bolt pierces a piece of metal – twice in the same spot) is the theme music for a show I work on called  The Instigators.  N0w you may not hear the theme in The Instigators link but tune in to NESN and trust me you will.  This is very fitting usage of that song however because the only thing tougher than The Instigator’s Mike Milbury is the TAC-15 tactical assault crossbow.

~ by audioscience on April 27, 2009.