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A sound effect (or audio effect) is an artificially created or enhanced sound, or sound process used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media.
As far back as Ancient Greece, sound effects have been used in entertainment productions. Sound effects (also known as sound FX, SFX, or simply FX) are used to enhance theatre, radio, film, television, video games, and online media. Sound effects were originally added to productions by creating the sounds needed in real-time.
An early sound effects man (center right) adding effects to a live radio play in the 1920s. He holds an effects board with which he can simulate ringing telephones and closing doors. What is now called Foley originated as adding sounds to live broadcasts of radio drama from radio studios around the world in the early 1920s.
Sound Ideas is a Canadian audio company and the archive of one of the largest commercially available sound effects libraries in the world. [2] [3] It has accumulated the sound effects, which it releases in collections by download or on CD and hard drive, through acquisition, exclusive arrangement with movie studios, [4] and in-house production.
In American radio, film, television, and video games, walla is a sound effect imitating the murmur of a crowd in the background. [1] A group of actors brought together in the post-production stage of film production to create this murmur is known as a walla group.
Special effects (usually visual), illusions used in film, television, and entertainment; Sound effects, sounds that are artificially created or enhanced; SFX, a British magazine covering the topics of science fiction and fantasy; SFX (Science Fiction Expo), a convention in Toronto, Canada; SFX Entertainment, American promoter