Best Sounding Video Pool?

Robejz 10:50 PM - 16 February, 2024

Over the last few of years I’ve been building a solid video library and replacing my audio files. I subscribe to a popular, legit pool but I’m becoming increasingly disheartened by the quality of the audio.

They purport to be 320kbps, but running them through Fakin’ the Funk shows some tracks to be as low as 192, and noticeably sound awful.

Can anyone recommend a video site where the audio is of a consistently decent quality?

popnwave 2:47 AM - 17 February, 2024

Video pool wise SmashVidz and PromoOnly have always been the best over all quality wise. I do have stuff from Xtendamix, especially some redrums that are very swishy and don't sound that great and I just skip them. MOST of there material is great and they still run circles around other pools in sheer selection.

Also it should be said that 192k is fine for club use if it's AAC. Finding better copies of videos is a never ending project, I'm 25+ years into my journey at this point. When it started sometimes you'd find stuff in mono on 3/4" reel vs stereo and want to replace that!

DJ Art Pumpin Payne 3:41 PM - 20 February, 2024

Xtendamix has been pretty consistent with the newer files and music soundwise

There is a free trial where you can get 40 free credits somewhere here on the Serato site

I also use Smash and a pool called www.vjstreet.com

Robejz 10:26 PM - 23 February, 2024

Thanks for your input guys.

I know what you mean about it being a never ending project. I started with VJStreet years ago, but the quality wasn't so good back then, so I replaced a lot of those with Xtendamix. Then Xtendamix released HD version and then 1080p versions.

For the most part Xtendamix has been great. I can't knock the size of their catalogue. Maybe I've been unlucky with the odd few files - I've spotted a few YouTube rips.

I'll definitely give VJStreet another go. I miss having acappella and instruemental versions, altough stems works well enough most of the time.