I first heard of Neumann Films on Twitter. In July Luke Neumann had daily freebies, tracks you could download for free. One for everyday in July that he had composed, and 18 tracks for a web series The Dark Knight he'd also composed. All you had to do was give credit to Luke, give the title of the song and you can use all of the daily freebies royalty free in your work. Since I shoot and edit, the thing I was really missing in my workflow was a good variety of music. All the daily freebies are really good with a little bit of every type of music to set the right mood.
I really liked all the freebies Luke offered so I decided to get the Teaser toolbag and Horror music collection. I have to say the 50 bucks spent is worth every penny. Both albums have tons of tracks and I can easily see using everything in both albums.
The Teaser Toolbag is a library of sounds, elements, percussion beats and songs with over 3.2 gb of content. Everything is broken down into 3 different folders and categorized by beats per minute ranging from 80bpm all the way upto 140 bpm. You can mix and match each file for upto 2000+ unique song compostions.
The first folder In The Teaser Toolbag has 7 sets of intros all the same content but at different beats per minute. At 80bpm there are 14 different intros all ranging just below one minute. Then 90bpm thru 140bpm range from 10 to all 14 of the same tracks at 80bpm.
Also in the first folder there are 3 cymbal rises, 13 different hits, 9 orchestral sound designs, 30 different sound designs and 11 full songs ranging in emotions they set. Most of the full songs have a nice upbeat tempo to them for action, a few a little slower for dramatic scenes. The two songs that really stuck out were Edge of reason and Space Debris both of these songs gave me a sense of helplessness and sadness. I could see using these for a scene for something life changing in a big way.
Teaser Toolbag 2 is all orchestra tracks ranging from 80bpm to 140bpm. At 80bpm you get 29 different tracks, then upto 110bpm the same 29 tracks and from there you get 28 for 110bpm, 25 for 120bpm, 21 for 130bpm and 20 for 140bpm.
Teaser Toolbag 3 is all percussion tracks. You get 9 different tracks at the 80bpm and ranging from 8 down to 5 the faster the tempo.
The Horror music folder is broken down into 6 different folders. The first folder is bonus tracks full songs ranging from a minute upto 2 and a half minutes. And you get 5 in total.
The second folder is digital atmosphere and there are a total of 17 errie tracks all a minute and a half.
3rd folder is the Hits folder and there are 13 different "hits" The best way to describe the hits are the loud noise right before something is about to happen.
4th folder is orchestral atmosphere and you get 2 in total.
5th folder is orchestral rises and there is 5 in total.
The last folder is sound design, the best way I can describe it is tracks I would use to add to the other sound effects in the album to create the overall audio for a scene. There are 51 different sound design tracks.
The Horror music collection is great overall, you get alot of really creepy and scary sounds to score a film with. I really like the full songs.
Listening to the songs on the horror album I got a nice Halloween vibe right off the bat. Hearing them I could easily see were they could be used when scoring. Geniside is one I really dug. It gave me the Halloween movie series right away, when Micheal is stalking his victim. And Horrorcast I could see the bad guy chasing someone thru the woods.
Right now if you buy the Teaser Toolbag you will get free updates to the album. Which will include new percussion, drum hits, sound design elements, intros, orchestral tracks and even full songs. The Teaser toolbag is 39.99 but will go up to 45.99 when the next updates are released. Your email will be added to a list and every time an update is added you'll get a free zip file containing the new music. Also right now Neumann films has the composers toolbag which has 25% savings and it includes the The Trailer toolbag, The Horror movie music and Teaser toolbag for 74.99
Luke also offers photography and video presets on his site.
I'm very pleased with both Teaser toolbag and Horror music album, both have a ton of really awesome tracks, beats, and full songs. If you need some good music for your edits give Neumann films a look, you won't be sorry.
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