Swell Music + Sound

Full audio post chain — under one roof Most shops do one thing. Swell does all of it.

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.