Any good advice on where to find royalty free sound clips and effects? I'm open to subscriber based services as well. I'm hesitant to click on downloadable content found in Google searches from sites like soundbible. Am I being to cautious? Where do you get your sound clips from?
Allen - remember that many of the sounds here (such as the Flyby you point to...) are made available under Creative Commons Attribution 3, so a course containing them needs to contain the correct attribution to the creator. That is something that many courses produced for e.g. Freelancers, or internal departments for companies will not necessarily want to do.
Very often, if you want good sounds, and want to use them in a commercial setting, you need just to buy them, as someone, somewhere went to the effort of creating them, and needs to be paid - or if not paid, be recognised for the creative work.
Freesound.org requires attribution, (Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license), and grsites requires a $50 fee for commercial use.
For those of you who work in the commercial/professional world, with a budget to spend, you might want to keep an eye on http://www.digitaljuice.com. They have a great collection of sound effects and soundtracks for sale, among other useful items. The reason you need to watch this site is they have frequent sales with major discounts. These make the purchase much more attractive.
I now own all the sound F/X and the soundtracks that I like. It took me a while to acquire them, however, as I waited until what I wanted went on sale.
My lighting kits have also come from them. Over the past few years, I have spent a few thousand dollars at Digital Juice. This is a small fraction of what I would have spent, if I were not willing to wait for the items to come on a reduced price sale.
I have never been disappointed by these folks and they didn't give me anything to say that, either.
A little late in this thread but thought i'd add this anyway. Youtube has free audio music page with a wide selection of background music and sound effects to pick from. https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
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Hi Kristin,
My new best audio friend is pond5.com, (pay per sound).
"Hover to hear preview" functionality, a great set of audio, and best/most precise search engine I have found yet.
Hope that helps.
Definitely! Thanks Bruce! Just briefly searched the site and it looks like a great option.
Actually we do have same question thanks for asking. Now I got the answer Kristin.
Hi Kristen: this website have great sound effect for free:
http://soundbible.com/1891-Flyby.html
http://www.soundsnap.com/ (Pay)
http://www.freesound.org/ (Free)
http://www.soundjay.com/ (Free with restrictions of use)
http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/
Hope you can find these helpful.
Allen - remember that many of the sounds here (such as the Flyby you point to...) are made available under Creative Commons Attribution 3, so a course containing them needs to contain the correct attribution to the creator. That is something that many courses produced for e.g. Freelancers, or internal departments for companies will not necessarily want to do.
Very often, if you want good sounds, and want to use them in a commercial setting, you need just to buy them, as someone, somewhere went to the effort of creating them, and needs to be paid - or if not paid, be recognised for the creative work.
Freesound.org requires attribution, (Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license), and grsites requires a $50 fee for commercial use.
I've used this a few times. Free but requires attribution.
http://www.audionautix.com/index.php
Enjoy!
For those of you who work in the commercial/professional world, with a budget to spend, you might want to keep an eye on http://www.digitaljuice.com. They have a great collection of sound effects and soundtracks for sale, among other useful items. The reason you need to watch this site is they have frequent sales with major discounts. These make the purchase much more attractive.
I now own all the sound F/X and the soundtracks that I like. It took me a while to acquire them, however, as I waited until what I wanted went on sale.
My lighting kits have also come from them. Over the past few years, I have spent a few thousand dollars at Digital Juice. This is a small fraction of what I would have spent, if I were not willing to wait for the items to come on a reduced price sale.
I have never been disappointed by these folks and they didn't give me anything to say that, either.
A little late in this thread but thought i'd add this anyway. Youtube has free audio music page with a wide selection of background music and sound effects to pick from. https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
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