Please see the post Drama!Drama!Drama! for the beginning of this series.

Okay, I am a Sound junkie.

I love music, I love full clear high fidelity audio. Yes, I love Home Theater and sport an Infinty Surround Sound system on an HD TV (BTW, I love this particular blog entry) with true multi-channel surround with bass shakers in my couch. I call my system “The Grille” (because everything you put on it cooks!) and with the bass shakers I have changed surround sound to “thump-a-round”.

I hope you can see that this is a passion for me ;-)

My music collection has spanned 8-tracks to cassettes to LP and now is fully digitized. An iPod? Ha! Not big enough. 4 GB what it is that???? I have a 20 GB Dell DJ that can’t hold my music collection, so I went out & purchased a 500 GB external USB hard drive for my computer. That just about does it.

This is one of the little loves of my life. Sound…..

So when it came to making videos and plays at church,  I was already sold on the value of quality sound, or quality “noise” as my wife calls it. Each production had to have a great base (not bass as in comparison to treble) of sound in it to add to the overall effect of the production.

For me, this happens in two ways:

Music, and Effects

I will concentrate more on music in another post, but for now let us discuss sound effects. Sound effects are the things that we all love to hear in a movie. If a movie didn’t have any sound effects, dare say we would not watch it again, or even make it through the rest of the movie.

Here is an invaluable free sound effects resource I use:

To be continued in Part 2…..