The Smalls Street Sounds - Free sound effects

An interesting new site for free sound effects for use in films. Check out The Smalls Street Sounds project.

This is The Smalls Street Sounds, the next generation sound collaboration. We thought you might like to listen to sounds from across the United States, and maybe upload some yourself? The Smalls Street Sounds is open to filmmakers, musicians, artists and anyone with a little inspiration. Record and upload sounds from where you live, or just come here to listen and travel in your imagination. When you’re ready, download sounds to provide inspiration and audio for your own short film. Anything is possible.

Juiced Link Audio Tutorials

Juiced Link, a company that specializes in audio for camcorders and HD DSLRs has a number of audio related tutorials.

Freesound.org - Free sound effects

Freesound.org is a a great source for finding sound effects for films. The every growing database of sounds come from people making their recordings available through a Creative Commons license. These are not music loops but sounds often recorded in the field. You are required to register before you can download, but you can search and listen to sounds to see if they have what you need. Registration is free. You will need to credit the creator of any sound you use.

The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to

• browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more
• up and download sounds to and from the database, under the same creative commons license
• interact with fellow sound-artists!

The Wilhelm Scream

Your challenge...include the Wilhelm scream in your next project.

The Art of Foley - Website

If you are interested in learning a little bit about the film sound effects, checkout this very nice website that features some background information on The Art of Foley.

The Art of Foley is a short tutorial designed to educate and inspire those interested in the craft of film sound effects.

Apple Logic and Soundtrack Notes and Quizzes

Apple Certified Trainer Jason Gaines has posted chapter notes, chapter quizzes, and supplemental information for the Logic 8 Level 1, Level 2 and Soundtrack courses. They are all based on the books published by Peachpit Press. The information is designed to help students pass the certification exams. The timed chapter quizzes he has created are really valuable.

Apple Loops Utility: Create Apple loops from audio files

The Apple Loops Utility allows you to create Apple loops from audio files.

Apple’s Apple Loops format adds metadata to files that allows them to conform to arbitrary tempos and pitches. For example, a 100bpm Apple Loop in the key of E could loop in a sequencer project in the key of C at 126bpm.

You can find a simple set of instructions at EQ Magazine.

MicroTrack II 2-track mobile recorder

M-Audio’s MicroTrack II 2-track mobile recorder has been embraced across the digital media production spectrum—from cutting-edge music producers and Hollywood sound designers to top-shelf video game developers and photojournalism agencies.

It provides a great option for recording voice-overs for classroom video projects.

HowAudio.com’s newest tutorial on the MicroTrack II is available FREE in its entirety on the HowAudio.com site. Over 35 minutes in length, this tutorial covers the basics of using the MicroTrack II, plus in-depth coverage of the Hardware/Software Controls, System, Settings, Options and Files Menus, Recording Options from Selecting An Input and Setting Levels, to Connecting To A Computer and File Transfers to iTunes, etc.