I almost forgot, I want some feedback on some of my sound design demo material, it''s at geocities.com/psyko_music/

If I were going to spend money on sfx, there is a studio that did a library for Sound Ideas: the Larger than Life set. I forgot what they were called but I know they sell their own sfx and might publish their own Cd''s I''d look into that if I were you
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When you''re experimenting to try and get a given sound, make sure you note this down along with the settings/equipment you used. I say this because quite often, when trying to get 1 particular sound, you get something which is good for something completely different. If you note all these down, it might help you later.

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You can also experiment with oscillators and envelopes and all that $hit...there''s one called Orangator out there somewhere that is brilliant. Admittedly, it''s more designed/aimed at creating samples for mods, but i''s still an impressive bit of kit for playing around with. There are so many options you won;''t know where to begin. It''s poorly documented, but it''s FREE.

Hope that helps some.

And of course, if you''re very short on money and can''t afford ''professional'' kit, you can always buy a cheap guitar digital multiFx unit (e.g. Zoom GFX-707 is good) and route your FX through that...that way, you can taylor your distortion to a T, and not just have to put up with the rancid digital distortion of just overloading the input of yer sound card. (I''m assuming that you;re editing in software at the moment, not hardware). I could go on for ages, but I have only played around a bit with FX, so I''ll leave it to the experts.

PS: Flangers can turn anything into an effect

And play with EQ A LOT...