SoundBetter Reviews 

SoundBetter has been a HUGE part of my family for the past 10 years. Because of them, I have been awarded the opportunity to produce artists from around the world.

I'm on other freelance work sites, and this is one of the best. The dynamic it proposes in the client/worker relationship creates a very good atmosphere and results.

Thanks to Soundbetter I can work with clients all around the world and they are always capable to keep the link active with the people who needs audio professional services. They are also fair and always ready to help.

5+ years(?!) I'm working with SoundBetter as a provider and absolutely happy to be a part of Pro's - produce\remix\mix thousand of songs with a talented people all around the world in Electronic music genre.

Thanks for all SoundBetter team, Shachar & Jordan - are always responsible and sociable.

Wish you a success and prosperity, always yours,.
Philip.

Regular user. It’s usually great, seamless. But I got limited support when I needed it.

Great platform for finding amazing talent

I absolutely recommend Soundbetter, I't a pleasure to work with this platform.

Easy platform to work on, always enjoyable!

I have been getting great collaborators through soundbetter- I'm loving the site so far.

Changed my life as a service provider! Best website out there!

Andrew was so good to work with. Results are amazing!

Great platform. Great customer service.

Amazing platform with amazing talented professionals.

Music is about community and exists and prospers within communities. It is nice that you provide a service that advances the potential expansion of music-peoples' understanding of one another and our ability to find each other faster. The fees are a bit much, especially considering how little money is ultimately coming to the professionals and artists collaborating here.

Improve your search, why when I need to look for a Dudu player for example I can't just type Duduk in the search, the sounds like is useless and most of the times I go to other websites just for that reason. everything else is amazing, but I have been flagging this up for the past few years since I start using the website before it was sold to spotify and bought again.

Firstly, it isn't particularly easy for people to find you on here. I haven't had a whole lot of work, maybe 2/3 projects in 18 months. There's no option to upload videos of your work, which I find bizarre. Of course you can add audio, but this is limited unless you pay for a premium account, even though they already take a cut of your payments on a standard free account.
When you do get a request, you have to quote the person straight away, outlining what you will deliver, without the option to ask more about the project in further detail. So if you get a request that you would like to know more about before quoting, you can't message the person back without giving them a price. I usually put a guide price in order to message the client, but then it usually turns out they want more than what they originally asked, then you update the price based on this and they aren't happy with it so you kinda end up wasting everyones time.

Another very annoying part is how payments are handled. The only way you can be payed is via PayPal. And only in USD. So if you're in the UK or Europe, or anywhere other than the US, you don't have any options for exchange rates. For example, I took on a project to record vocals, priced at $300, immediately you lose 10% of this. 7% fee to Soundbetter and 3% transaction fee??
So now it's already down to $270. Then it's paid to PayPal, but is immediately exchanged to the currency of your country, which means you get PayPal's terrible exchange rate, and pay another fee to PayPal for the exchange. This lowers how much you earn again.

There should be more payment options, especially when you have international users. Allowing people to be paid via Revolut or something would be much better, then everyone can be paid in USD and choose to exchange to their own currency on a better rate and when is best for them. Not just a one size fits all PayPal transfer.