Custom Stock Music - The New Hybrids

Given a choice, we would all have originally scored music for our projects.  We get it.

But, budgets sometime dictate the need to use production music off the shelf.

What's a girl to do?

These days, a few companies are (legitimately) custom scoring their library music and results can be awesome when done right:

Yes, it costs a bit more than the rate card . . . but it is still a big savings compared to original music and you can still get that warm fuzzy feeling knowing you got a kick ass piece of music for advertising.