Blog – Page 20 – ZapSplat – Download free sound effects

Donating and upgrading

Alan McKinney 27th September 2017 No Comments

Zapsplat.com is a free sound effect and music library. We always have been and we always will be. From day one, our mission was to provide a wide range of…

16,000 free sound effects and counting

Alan McKinney 26th September 2017 No Comments

It’s with great pleasure we can announce the upload of our 16,000th free sound effect. It’s been a normal busy month for us here and we’ve been really busy working…

What is the future for sound effects libraries?

Alan McKinney 26th September 2017 No Comments

For those of you too young to remember, sound effect libraries once came on vinyl. I had the opportunity recently to help archive an old library digitally converted from DAT…

Recording dogs

Alan McKinney 25th September 2017 No Comments

Dogs come in all different shapes and sizes and with that come all manner of different sounds. Our free dog sound effects are very popular and we’ve been lucky to…

Creating knife slash sound effects

Alan McKinney 25th September 2017 No Comments

We’ve recently been asked to produce a set of 4 different knife slash sounds, with the requirement being the knife must cut the flesh with a nasty fleshy blood squelch.…

Recent Feedback

Alan McKinney 25th September 2017 No Comments

We love receiving feedback from you, our users. Feedback helps us improve our service, increase our range of sounds and make important updates to our website that increase usability and…

The importance of reverb

Alan McKinney 25th September 2017 No Comments

This article isn’t an in-depth introduction to reverb, but more an explanation to beginners in the audio industry as to why it’s such an important effect that you’ll almost certainly…

Recording thunder and lightning sound effects

Alan McKinney 22nd September 2017 No Comments

Thunder and lightning is nature at its best, in my opinion. Growing up in the south on England it was always a rare event to have a thunderstorm that would…

New releases and upcoming sounds

Alan McKinney 20th September 2017 No Comments

We’ve just added 76 new free sound effects and have over 200 more to come this week. These include a wide range of new sounds from food to aliens. The…

What are your most used creative DAW effects or processes?

Alan McKinney 18th September 2017 No Comments

If you’re a sound designer or work with a Digital Audio Workstation on a regular bases it’s likely you’ve mastered a process to work quickly and have your favourite go-to…