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Review: The Cine Series Bundle by PMSFX

Justin Macleod 17th April 2019 No Comments

‘Cine Series’ is a comprehensive collection of production elements from textures and soundscapes to impacts, whooshes and transitions. It consists of four libraries, ‘Cinenergy’, ‘Cinedrop’ and ‘Cinescapes’ volumes i and…

Review: Glitchy Circuits by PMSFX

Justin Macleod 16th April 2019 No Comments

When I first saw the tweet from PM Sound Effects announcing the release of the library ‘Glitchy Circuits’, I wasn’t sure what to expect, whether it would be an electricity…

New design and a brief history of Zapsplat

Alan McKinney 10th April 2019 No Comments

If you’ve just visited zapsplat.com for the first time in a while, you might notice some big changes. Yesterday we launched version 3 of our site after 6 months of…

Props from the hardware shop

Alan McKinney 4th April 2019 No Comments

There are several places I go to when I need some inspiration for new things to record, or when I need specific props for recording, especially Foley. I wrote recently…

Scheduled downtime for updates

Alan McKinney 2nd April 2019 No Comments

From 8th April at 23:00 GMT to 9th April at 05:00 GMT (5 hours) zapsplat.com will be unavailable while we make some important site updates. We wanted to give you…

A week of sound effect requests

Alan McKinney 1st April 2019 No Comments

We have been extremely busy here at zapsplat.com over the last few weeks with a brand new redesign of the site about to be launched (which has been in progress…

New free sound effects: cities, caves, contact mics and cockerels

Justin Macleod 18th March 2019 No Comments

Free to Use Sounds have very kindly given us another batch of sounds effects. One of the things I like when I come to peruse their offerings is that I…

How to find value in recording everyday items for beginners

Alan McKinney 14th March 2019 No Comments

I was asked a little while ago by someone how I came up with new ideas for recording sound effects, given that I upload over 300, sometimes as many as…

Recording tropical bird sound effects

Alan McKinney 8th March 2019 No Comments

Last week I sent out several emails to local attractions and locations with the aim to source some new recording locations. One of them was the Maleny Botanic Gardens &…

To Squeak or not to Squeak

Justin Macleod 7th March 2019 No Comments

Convincing sound design is essential to the suspension of disbelief. If your crackling cellophane and air blowing into a microphone doesn’t convince your audience that there is a raging inferno…