In addition to Stock Music for use as underscores, backgrounds, segues, intros and extros, there are additional audio elements that can enhance the power of your production. These include Imaging Elements and Sound Effects.
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Imaging Elements:
Imaging Elements (also known as Production Elements) are distinctive bites of sound that create a mood, feeling or statement. They have a vocabulary of their own. Some of the more popular styles of Imaging Elements include: hits, drones, rewinds, whooshes, zips, zaps, swipes, dissolves, ambient pads, tones and sounders.
Sound Ideas offers a great collection of very practical imaging element collections, including the highly acclaimed Elements Café series of CDs.
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Sound Effects:
A Sound Effect is a single isolated recording, which can range in length from a heartbeat to several minutes. There are several types of Sound Effects:
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- everyday sounds like doorbells, car horns and telephone rings;
- specialty sounds like comedy, fantasy and science fiction FX;
- longer background ambience tracks.
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Sound Ideas is the world's largest publisher of sound effects. Their Web site offers more than 100 different sound effects collections of every description, and they have a monthly special that offers great prices for online orders.
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This Web site also provides links to other related Web sites.
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