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Where do you get your sound effects from?
Hey all,
I've done a search of the forums and found a few pages with ideas but I wanted to put it out there again in case someone had something new. I'm looking for a place to get sound effects not music. E.g. sounds from a kitchen, or emergency sounds or office noises. I've found stuff on the free sound project before. What I want is real recorded sounds not those computer designed sounds.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Kat
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/
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.
Thanks for sharing! Soundjay.com had exactly what I needed!
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
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
You guys are so awesome... I love these forums! Thanks!!
I suggest you also this very nice website : http://www.lasonotheque.org/en/
Bruce Graham said:
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
Hey, Bruce. At risk of sounding preachy, it is something we need to remind ourselves about, so I'm glad you said it. Many of the free sites have restrictions, such as for personal use, not commercial use. Or, requirements like posting the source on the same page/slide where the clip is located.I wrote a couple blog posts on this a while back. This one links to a story about someone who inadvertently infringed on someone else's intellectual property and got "called" on it.
