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How to Add a Custom Logo to Your Music Visualizer (3 Methods)

Tutorial 📅 May 2026 ⏱ 5 min read

If you're putting your tracks on YouTube, every play is a missed branding opportunity unless your artist logo is on screen. A consistent logo across your videos builds recognition — a viewer who watched one of your music videos last week sees the same logo on a new upload and knows it's you, often before they've heard a note. This guide walks through the three ways to add a custom logo to a music visualizer in Shimga.

Method 1: Logo in the Center of a Circle Spectrum

The most distinctive look — a circular spectrum with your logo pulsing in its center. The spectrum bars radiate outward; the logo expands and contracts with the bass. It's the "Trap Nation" aesthetic, and it's instantly recognizable. Trap-Nation style tutorial here.

Setup

  1. Add a Circle Spectrum layer.
  2. In the spectrum's settings panel, scroll to Center Logo and toggle Enable Logo.
  3. Click Upload image… and pick your logo (PNG with transparency works best).
  4. Tune the params:
    • Logo Padding %: 10-15. Adds breathing room between the logo edge and the spectrum.
    • Logo Opacity: 1.0. Anything lower fades the logo into the background.
    • Fill Ring: ON if your logo has transparency you want to fill with a color. White ring + dark logo is a classic look.

Why This Looks Good

The logo scales with the spectrum's "minRadius" — when the bass hits and the spectrum expands outward, the logo's clipping circle expands with it. So your logo pulses with the beat without any manual keyframing. Read about audio-reactive visual design for why this works.

Method 2: Logo Circle as a Separate Layer

For more control — independent position, beat-react curve, opacity — use the dedicated Logo Circle layer instead.

Setup

  1. Add a Logo Circle layer.
  2. Upload your logo image.
  3. Set:
    • Position X / Y: anywhere. 0.5 / 0.5 = center. 0.85 / 0.92 = bottom-right corner watermark.
    • Radius: 8-15% (small-watermark to dominant-feature).
    • Image Scale: 0.85. Controls how much of the circle the logo fills.
    • Shadow Blur: 12-20. Soft glow makes the logo "lift" off the background.
    • Clip Image: ON for a circular mask, OFF for the logo's natural shape.
  4. In the Automation panel, link "Radius" to bass with a min of 8 and max of 11 — the logo gently pulses on every kick.

Method 3: Static Watermark

The simplest and lowest-impact approach: an Image Overlay placed in a corner.

Setup

  1. Add an Image Overlay layer.
  2. Upload your logo.
  3. Set:
    • Position X / Y: 0.05 / 0.95 (bottom-left) or 0.95 / 0.95 (bottom-right). Keep away from the bottom 10% on 9:16 videos — that's where the platform UI lives.
    • Width %: 8-12. Anything bigger competes with your visualizer.
    • Opacity: 0.7-0.85. Watermarks are present, not loud.
    • Keep Aspect Ratio: ON.

Logo Preparation: What File Format to Use

Resolution Guide

Export your logo at 2× the largest size it'll appear at in your video. So if your logo will be 200×200 pixels in a 1080p video, use a 400×400 PNG file. That gives you sharpness on retina displays and a margin for high-resolution exports.

What to Watch Out For (Uploaded Image Persistence)

Important caveat for cloud-saved projects: uploaded logo files don't persist when you save a project to the cloud. The image lives only in your current browser tab. If you save the project, share the link, and open it on another device, the logo will be missing (the rest of the scene loads fine). Pexels-sourced images persist; user-uploaded files don't (Shimga doesn't use Cloud Storage for cost reasons — read why).

For artist branding specifically, the workaround is to keep your logo file safe on your machine and re-upload it any time you open the saved project to re-export.

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