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New server and website features

Alan McKinney 23rd April 2020 No Comments

It’s been an interesting few weeks for the world, with the Covid-19 Coronavirus throwing us all into lockdown and also the tragic deaths that have resulted from this awful virus.…

Copyright and Audio Licensing for Beginners

Alan McKinney 28th March 2020 No Comments

Here at ZapSplat.com we see users from many professions and also at various levels of expertise using our sound effects and music. While some have an in-depth understanding of how…

We’ve reached 60,000 free sound effects

Alan McKinney 9th March 2020 No Comments

I love posting these milestone blog posts because it’s great to look back over them overtime and see exactly when we hit key moments and how quickly our library of…

Implosion: a review

Justin Macleod 12th February 2020 No Comments

Stosh Tuszynski of Collected Transients has a well-established reputation for releasing innovative, evocative and unique sound effects libraries to inspire sound designers. You only need to look at the subjects…

The secret of looping no one told me (for ages)

Justin Macleod 17th September 2019 No Comments

Pretty much all scenes in films, TV programs, audio dramas etc require sound effects. The difficulty is that the sound designers who capture and design those sound effects likely have…

Zynaptiq Wormhole: a Review

Justin Macleod 29th August 2019 No Comments

If you want a plugin that gives you three ways to create a wide stereo image, eight octaves of pitch shifting, 8000 Hz of frequency shifting, two instances of reverb,…

Krotos Reformer Pro Review

Alan McKinney 21st August 2019 No Comments

While I was looking for the first plugin to review, the Krotos Audio plugins landed on top of my list, so when I was asked to review Reformer Pro I…

Faturator by Kilohearts: for when clean won’t cut it

Justin Macleod 14th August 2019 No Comments

Faturator is a saturation distortion plugin by Kilohearts that allows you to introduce a lot of aggression and bite to whatever you feed it. There is the potential for real…

Microshift by Soundtoys: It’s little but wide

Justin Macleod 14th August 2019 No Comments

You’ve heard of “the Butterfly effect”, the idea that if a butterfly flaps its wings somewhere, a storm might be created somewhere else. This idea that really small changes can…

Mobius Filter by Izotope: a review

Justin Macleod 14th August 2019 No Comments

Named after the mobius strip, a 3-dimensional shape with only one side and one boundary, Izotope’s Mobius Filter is an interesting, inexpensive and simple to use plugin with lots of…