A new Web site lets musicians and sound designers share free samples, sound effects and music loops. Designed as a resource and community, Soundsnap is a platform that provides user-driven content for ...

The recordings, which are taken from all over the world and date back to the 1920s, are divided into categories including ‘Footsteps’, ‘Machines’, ‘Crowds’ and ‘Events’ The BBC’s sound effect library ...

There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, but did you know that that the good old British Broadcasting Corporation has made more than 33,000 of its FX available ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

The salvage yard at M. Maselli & Sons, in Petaluma, California, is made up of six acres of angle irons, block pulleys, doorplates, digging tools, motors, fencing, tubing, reels, spools, and rusted ...