Showing posts with label Sound Effects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sound Effects. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2009

World Instruments - Knowing How Various Instruments Create Sound and Produce Music

Music is prevalent in the world today. It can calm the soul, it brings tears to one's eyes and it can convey a message of anger. Music is a communication, which can be meant for one person but relayed to many. Music is the way by which we realize that we can relate to a lot of people more than we have imagined possible.


But what is music? How is it created? Music comes from sound. And the most common and the most basic source of sound that we know of is perhaps our voice. But sound is not limited to our voice. Over generation people have created ways to regulate sound by making instruments over which you can control the regulation of sound.


Of course, these instruments are not limited to one community or one country. Music is pervasive worldwide, and so are instruments that create music. Music encompasses the world, and this is why we have such a term as world instruments. World instruments pertain to the musical instruments that are recognized universally or from around the globe. So what are the types of world instruments that are generally recognized? And how do these instruments make sound? Let us explore them.


Wind instruments


One type of world instruments is termed the wind instruments. It is called so because it produces sound as a result of the air that we put into it; air that comes from our lungs. By this definition you now probably have an idea what examples of wind instruments are. With our breath, we can prolong or intensify sound because air vibrates within a vented tube, which is the nature of wind instruments. Examples of wind instruments are of course our voice, the flute, the horn, and such. The wind instruments are world instruments recognized for the production of sound as a result of our breath.


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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Using Free Movie Sound Effects For Your Projects

Are you looking for fresh ideas on how to make your projects as appealing as possible? It is about time to get yourself used to the idea of using free movie sound effects for your projects. sound effects are great add-ons to any media material that you are able to find. From the Internet, videos, websites and even television, the use of sound effects have always been a popular way to make viewers relate to the media presentation. Imagine the difference when you see a gun fired by the James Bond, but with no sound effect at all. It will barely give you an impression that the gun has been fired. A gun-firing sound effect will thus make the entire shooting scene more realistic and hence bringing the audience closer to the action.


But before you start downloading movie sound tracks and movie sound effects for your latest project, check out some of the important points to note. When using free downloaded tracks or sound effects for your project, be sure to use tracks that are not copyrighted. Examples of copyrighted tracks and sound effects are the ones like Batman theme and songs that you hear over the radio. These kinds of songs and sound effects are not supposed to be used and downloaded for free. Although it might be tempting to get 'freebies' off the Net, the consequences can be pretty tough on you if you are caught with illegal downloading.


So, in order to protect yourself and your project, make full use of free movies sound effects that can be downloaded from royalty free music websites. Royalty free music tracks are tracks that can be downloaded and edited to death. It doesn't matter what you do to these royalty free tracks. You as the downloader and purchaser are entitled to make all the tweaking and editing you'll need to bring out the desired effect. And no, you no longer need to worry about getting caught by the cops. These sound effects are rightfully yours.


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