free Sound Effects and Samples?

[alex0203]

Does anyone know where I can find a website that has royalty-free sound effects and sound samples?

I'm looking for things like crows cawing outside, sleigh bells, ticking clocks...you know, stuff like that. Where do people find that kind of stuff?

 

[RAMI]

I Googled "free sound effects" and got about 10 pages worth of stuff. Weird, huh????

 

[grimtraveller]

Does anyone know where I can find a website that has royalty-free sound effects and sound samples?

I'm looking for things like crows cawing outside, sleigh bells, ticking clocks...you know, stuff like that. Where do people find that kind of stuff?

They search for it on the internet or they record them themselves or they get sound effects CDs from the library.

 

[alex0203]

They search for it on the internet or they record them themselves or they get sound effects CDs from the library.

I had no idea there were sound effect CDs at the library! o-m-g

 

[moresound]

I Googled "free sound effects" and got about 10 pages worth of stuff. Weird, huh????

Could you go over the steps one at a time for me?

 

[thajeremy]

sounddogs.com

 

[kcearl]

http://www.freesound.org/


http://www.ccmixter.org/

 

[VomitHatSteve]

I generally use sampleswap.

Caveat: You're not guaranteed royalty-free samples. They're supposed to be, but it's all user-generated.

 

[grimtraveller]

I had no idea there were sound effect CDs at the library! o-m-g

I suppose it depends where you live. I know here in London, some libraries are pretty useless for that kind of thing, but others have, if not a comprehensive supply, certainly a useful supply.
Sound effects CDs have their uses. I learned a tiger's roar is far more "roary" than that of a lion, for instance.....

 

[Ethan Winer]

I'm looking for things like crows cawing outside, sleigh bells, ticking clocks.

You can download sleigh bells and other percussion instruments for free on my site, in SoundFont format:

Free SoundFonts

--Ethan

 

[Armistice]

I Googled "free sound effects" and got about 10 pages worth of stuff. Weird, huh????

What is this Google of which you speak...?

 

[Thurgood]

Ethan thanks, just delving into soundfonts. Love your always helpful info. Be well all. Thurgood.