Need to add sound effects to your home movies but don't want to break the bank buying royalty-free tracks from LucasFilm? The Freesound Project aims to provide those of us working on non-commercial ...

Hollywood movies are large, expensive productions, and so in order to cut costs, sound editors will often lift pre-existing sound effects from a large library rather than go out into the field and ...

Most of us probably never notice the sound effects foley artists create for movies. They’re usually ambient sounds like footsteps, swishing cloth, or doors opening and closing, intended to fade into ...

During a fight scene, you probably thought you heard someone getting punched. Wrong. What you actually heard was a chicken carcass getting smashed by a baseball bat. And that’s just the tip of the ...

This article was taken from the June 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

To create the noises you know and love from your favourite movies, sound engineers and foley artists have to get creative. To create sound effects you need a knack for the obscure and and the ability ...