Sound effects are just plain cool. Know that these are not ringtones; they’re purposely very short and meant for things like system events, new-mail sound and so on. Each one of the downloads below will have the option to download in WAV or MP3. If using Windows, you want WAV. If another OS, you want MP3.Cork Pop – Download Buzz (sounds like a...

Back when Windows 95 was first released there was an optional add-on purchase called Microsoft Plus! This added in screen savers, wallpaper, some styling changes and of course, WAV sound effects. Several of these sound effect packages are still available direct for download from Microsoft’s web site. You can get them from...

The "transmitted" sound is the human voice that sounds as if it were being broadcasted on an old radio. To this day, Hollywood still uses this trick in movies for phone conversations and anything else where the voice is supposed to sound "old", "old tech" or "distant" (like in war movies). If you’re into making your...

Some people have noted that the voice quality in the videos I produce for PCMech and in personal music recordings I make that have sought-after "FM sound" to them, which loosely translates to "sounds like the dee jay I hear on FM radio". If you’re the type that records audio and are looking for that particular sound, it’s actually...