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In a simulation or video scene, sound adds emotion and realism to what you are trying to show. But it's not always easy to record the sounds that actually occur when, for example, lab objects are ...

The Sound Effects Library has signed an agreement with the BBC that will make BBC sounds accessible to the public online. The BBC library of 165 CDs worth of effects will be added to the Sound Effects ...

It’s 200 years since Thomas De Quincey wrote On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth, the first serious consideration of the strange and powerful psychological impact of sound effects - sounds which ...

The BBC has launched an experimental web app for listening to, personalising, and making immersive soundscapes using the BBC Sound Effects library. The Soundscape Explorer is available on BBC Taster ...

Initially opened in 2018, the BBC Sound Effects Archive is a remarkable and vast resource, incorporating recordings which originated as far back as the 1920s. Recently, the archive has doubled in size ...