Hi everybody. This is my 3rd article but I think most of you will find it useful.

It seems to me that there aren't many articles dealing with sound and audio in games. This is arguably a very important part of any game, so I decided to write this article.

Usually, the sounds you need for things such as vehicles and weapons can be found at sites such as a1freesounds, findsounds.com or flashkit.

However, have you ever been in a situation where you need a particular sound clip but you can't seem to find it on any site? Then, you hear it in an online video or something and have no way of retrieving it? You think, "Man, thats the exact sound I need. If only I could download it."

Well, you can't retrieve the desired sound directly, but there is another way. You simply need to tell the computer to record its own speaker output.

This is very simple. Just go to your audio properties and under the recording device and choose the same device that is used for playback. This way, whatever the computer would play back through the speakers gets sent to the microphone input and can be recorded.

Open up your recording program. Sound recorder will do fine but anything will work. Start the recording and then play the desired sound. Once you have what you need you can stop the recording and do whatever you want with the sound.

This has helped me plenty of times. For example: I needed a certain sound in my game for when a character activates a laser pistol. I couldn't find it anywhere but I heard it in a Halo documentary, so I used this method to retrieve it from the video.