The result, “100 Sound Effects,” comes out this month on the venerable indie label Drag City. The track titles are themselves punch lines: “Guitar Tuned but Still Somehow Out of Tune,” “Supportive ...

With just a few dollars in parts and whatever old speaker or other enclosure you have lying around, you can make a sound effects button box.

Snow hypothesized that the pipe organ creates an auto-tune effect since its pipes sympathetically resonate to the same frequencies they are tuned to.

Why do pop vocals suddenly sound perfect--or intentionally imperfect?

Sometimes, bizarre sound effects and unique audio engineering tricks can take a classic rock song from good to amazing.

Ora Nichols was the first — and only — woman to run a radio sound effects department during the Golden Age of Radio.