Article: Downloading sound effects

SOUND ADVICE

A glimpse at a few relevant websites and their features.

Theater sound people now have free access to thousands of sound effects that can be downloaded from the World Wide Web and used in productions. Although the sound quality of these effects may not be of CD quality, many sound surprisingly good. Of course, excellent soundeffect CDs are available as well.

Most sound-effects websites let you preview each effect, then download it to your computer. Once you've built a library of these effects, you can play them at the click of a mouse.

It's important to note that some sound effects on the Web are public domain, but others are not. Be sure to ask the webmaster whether you ...

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