That anvil drop in Metallica’s 1985 heavy metal hit “For Whom The Bell Tolls” might be the most legendary part of the whole song. At the beginning of the track, the sound of a “bell” tolling ushers in ...

There are endless options for music-making. Relying on instruments alone provides a smorgasbord of different sounds, so seemingly endless that you’d never run out of ideas. Then there are other ...

Apple kicked off its MacBook Pro keynote a little differently today: with a sweet remix of classic Apple sound effects from the past 45 years of the company’s history, created by artist A. G. Cook — ...

It happened exactly 36 seconds into the song—a glimpse of the shape of pop to come, a feel of the fabric of the future we now inhabit. The phrase “I can’t break through” turned crystalline, like the ...

From noises off to the sounds of tomorrow, composer Sarah Angliss and some of the world’s greatest effects artists celebrate 200 years of the awesome power of sound effects. Show more It’s 200 years ...

Logic Pro not only includes a massive library of sounds, but also has a fine array of stock effects. These include a lot of standard processors such as parametric and classic EQs, a very well spec’d ...