Swell Music + Sound

Your Story. Our Sound.

1368 S. 49th St, Richmond, California 94804, United States

https://swellmusicsound.com

Swell Music + Sound Overview

Number of Employees: Under 49

Minimal Budget: $1,000 - $10,000

Average Hourly Rate: $300/hr

Year Founded: 2009

Original music composition custom scores, custom library tracks, original compositions for TV, digital, animation, and YouTube. Packages from 1 demo to 8 demos with stems.

Sound design frame-accurate, narrative sound design. Library sound used intelligently; custom sound design on jobs with the right budget.

Final mix to picture the workhorse service. Dialogue editing clean-up, ADR, voice processing. Voice over recording remote (Source-Connect) and in-person. Daily capability.

Clients from Atlassian to Cutwater to Walden University run VO sessions through Swell routinely. Voice over casting talent casting and direction.

Music supervision search, license, clearance for existing music. Michael Frick (No Friction) is the strategic partner here; combined they have a 20-30% cost savings advantage over agency-direct licensing because of Michael's label relationships.

Music licensing Top Shelf catalog and direct artist licensing. Pre-cleared, work-for-hire structures available for high-volume brand programs (the Meta model).

Sonic branding audio mnemonics, sonic logos, full audio identity systems. The United Healthcare rebrand (with Turner Duckworth + Leo Burnett) is the flagship case study. The Postmates custom sonic palette is the second.

Custom music library programs the Meta/Instagram model: hundreds of tracks per year, custom-built for a brand, pre-cleared, work-for-hire.

Full audio chain.
Film and TV native.

Most post houses have great engineers but no musical brain. Most music houses don't touch post. We've always lived in the middle and that's exactly where film and TV work gets interesting. Music Lab runs composers, recording artists, showrunner sessions, and post all under one roof. We understand that infrastructure. Founded in 2009. Based at Airship Labs in Richmond. Fully distributed, globally coordinated.