Where do you get your sound effects from?

Hey Kat,

I've found some decent (and free!) sounds just from Microsoft's website: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/ 

If you have an audio editing program, you can layer the sounds to make a more rich effect. For example, in the Emergency Response project I posted, here were some of the sounds I combined:

Wind storm + heavy rain = "tornado"

Tools rattling + wind chimes + hitting hockey boards = "earthquake"

Also, I haven't had a chance to gather much from this website, but I know our media team uses it a lot. http://audiojungle.net

Rebekah

Have you tried soundsnap? It's not free, but it's pretty reasonable and they have a good search tool. Sounddogs.com is good too.

http://www.freesound.org/people/Stomp/sounds/17641/

http://www.soundjay.com/

I like the first, but I end up having to edit them (shorten usually). Soundjay is good, but it annoys me that I can't easily search for something by a name....I have to figure out where it would be based on their categories.

I'm sure I do not need to say it, but always check the usage licenses for sound, image and other multimedia are appropriate for the use for which you are going to put it.

Very often - the good commercial stuff will cost you!

Bruce

Hi Kat,

You could also try recording your own sounds with something like this portable recorder .

I'm a musician in my spare time, so I quite enjoy recording and sound fx

If there are just a few specific sounds you require, drop me a message and I'll see what I have in my own sound library?

Dave

Hi Kat,

Check out this site for tons of free audio sound effects.

http://soundfxnow.com/

David

Freesound.org is awesome. 

If you use Adobe Soundbooth, they include something like 5000 free sound effects in their library. 

Check out Soundgorilla.com, lots of kitchen/office sound effects there

http://www.soundgorilla.com/

You guys are so awesome... I love these forums!  Thanks!!

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