How to know if your next piece of stock music is any good

Awesome tips.
A really useful test for a 'finished' piece of stock music which I never used to do (which was a big mistake!) is to actually listen to the track on fresh ears while watching the kind of vision you hope it'll be purchased for.
So if you're writing a track for something dark and spooky, jump on VideoHive and preview a bunch of stock footage in that style, switching from one to the next while your music plays in the background.

Usually the visual aid makes things really obvious to you, you'll suddenly notice an instrument that is really inappropriate for the style, that the mix is too bright or dull, or more often than not - that your piece is either way too fast or slow! It helps you see the problems in your track that would turn potential buyers away.

Also - don't be in a hurry to upload the track! Whenever I think a track is finished, I wait until the next day to do a final listen. 4 out of 5 times, I notice something blaringly obvious that only takes 5 minutes to fix. Well worth it.

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