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A Sound EffectStudios & prosThe Black November sale is LIVE! Get great deals on excellent sound effects libraries, plugins & instruments – and free sounds with ANY order! Land excellent deals on sound libraries, plugins and instruments here - while you have the chance!

11.10

A Sound EffectStudios & pros44 great new sound effects libraries: 1950s sci-fi, drift cars, dinosaurs, Greek walla & more Explore 44 new sound effects libraries, including 1950s vacuum-tube sci-fi, live drift car recordings, dinosaur roars, Greek walla, Christmas sparkles & more:

11.10

A Sound EffectStudios & prosHow CONTROL Resonant makes the ordinary sound strange: Behind the superb game audio What does a city sound like when otherworldly forces warp everyday life? The CONTROL Resonant audio team takes you behind the game's superb sound design in this exclusive…

11.05

A Sound EffectStudios & prosDROIDS: How a Lucasfilm team invented the DAW – go behind Matteo Milani’s new book (and get it for free!) Matteo Milani takes you behind his new book + shares stories behind synthesized arrows for Indiana Jones, washing-machine-sized hard disks - and how Hollywood reacted to seeing sound for the first…

11.02

A Sound EffectStudios & pros12 great new sound effects libraries: Cinematic explosions, barking dogs, Roman ambiences, jungles of Laos & more Explore 12 new sound effects libraries, including cinematic explosions, dogs barking across a Spanish valley, Roman ambiences, the jungles of Laos, and more.

11.02

A Sound EffectStudios & prosNoisevember is live on Airwiggles: Enter here for your chances to win! Don't miss your chance to take part and win glorious prizes:

11.01

A Sound EffectStudios & prosHorror Sound: How the Scariest Sounds in Film, TV & Games Are Made 70+ exclusive stories behind the scariest sounds in film, TV & games - plus tutorials, free SFX and tips for making your own horror sound effects:

10.28

A Sound EffectStudios & prosHow the finely-tuned horror sound for ‘Crystal Lake’ was made: Supervising sound editors and re-recording mixers Steve “Major” Giammaria and Nicholas Renbeck take you behind Crystal Lake's horror sound, with a special focus on episode one, in this excellent new…

10.27

A Sound EffectStudios & pros12 great new sound effects libraries: Western weapons, cyberpunk drones, elemental spells, cozy cooking & more Explore 12 new sound effects libraries, including Western weapons with a Gatling gun, cyberpunk drones, water and electricity spells, cozy cooking, and more:

10.27

A Sound EffectStudios & prosWARDOGS – a game audio deep-dive with Sean Garavan and Albin Jansson: Go behind the sound for BULKHEAD's popular tactical shooter in this massive game audio deep-dive from APA member Audio Logs:

10.26

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.