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What is the difference between a Stinger and a Bumper?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 9:13 am
by TrexGuitarman
Hi guys,
What is the difference between a Stinger and a Bumper?
Re: What is the difference between a Stinger and a Bumper?
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 7:56 pm
by andygabrys
this might help:
http://forums.taxi.com/topic21103.html
or this:
"Stinger– A short piece of music used for many purposes including logos, highlights, scene transitions etc. Good examples of stingers can be heard in every episode of Friends: when the scene changes, you often hear a short piece of music.
Bumper– A bumper is similar to a stinger in that it is used to transition between two scenes or segments in radio or TV, but is slightly longer than a stinger at around 30 secs to 1 minute in length."
from Emmet Cooke's “The Business of Music Licensing – Generating Revenue Through Your Music”
but if its a library asking for these things from you, sometimes just asking them is better. Then you tick all the boxes and everyone is happy.
btw - this kind of question gets asked a lot on this forum and the answers can be had in 10 seconds if you just search via Google.
Re: What is the difference between a Stinger and a Bumper?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 3:01 pm
by mojobone
From a video editor's point of view, a bumper is a transition between scenes and a stinger is the punctuation at the end of a scene. In radio terms, a bumper is a transition between the program and the commercial break; there's a bumper, usually with a fade, on either end of a segment, just like on either end of a car. Radio stingers are usually heard at the end of a commercial, and rarely at the end of a segment.
Re: What is the difference between a Stinger and a Bumper?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:03 pm
by hummingbird
A bumper is a natural ending, like on the tonic, maybe with a soft drum, or a quirky synth, or something tonal, to cleanly end the piece... kinda like "ker-plob !".
A stinger tends to be a 'bigger' and has a bit of a flourish... like sort of "cymbal sound building !! big thump !! ksshh"

Re: What is the difference between a Stinger and a Bumper?
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2016 11:48 pm
by edmondredd
hummingbird wrote:A bumper is a natural ending, like on the tonic, maybe with a soft drum, or a quirky synth, or something tonal, to cleanly end the piece... kinda like "ker-plob !".
A stinger tends to be a 'bigger' and has a bit of a flourish... like sort of "cymbal sound building !! big thump !! ksshh"

Probably the best sound definition I've ever read
