Free Sound Effects

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Closely related

  1. SoundBible.com
    http://soundbible.com
    SoundBible.com is the encyclopedia of sounds and may just be the last sample resource you'll ever need to hunt for. We offer free and royalty free sounds for video editors, movie scores, game designers, and weekend audio warriors.

  2. Free-Loops.com
    http://free-loops.com
    Free-Loops.com is a provider of Creative Common and Public Domain works. We currently have 7,000 Sounds in our Audio Database. Sounds are great for movie, stage production, music, and other media projects.

  3. the freesound project
    http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
    The shining example of a collaborative database of creative commons licensed sounds with thousands of participants. Several ten-thousands sounds available and since recently affiliated with ccmixter. The sounds are creative commons licensed.

  4. SoundJax.com
    http://soundjax.com
    SoundJax is semi autonomous sound search platform that indexes and renders waveforms, tags, and catalogues audio from the internet. SoundJax promises to be the future of sound search. [Beta Testing].

  5. Splurgo Audio
    http://www.splurgo.com/
    Your source for audio loops, production
    music and sound effects. Loops are available in Acid Pro Wav and Apple Garageband Aiff. Instant
    download or direct mail delivery.

  6. Wikipedia Articles
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundscape
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_recording
    Wikipedia links in turn with many wonderfull links about soundscapes/fieldrecordings.

  7. opsound.org
    http://opsound.org/pool/tag/
    open-eared listening, field recordings, ambiences, experiments, strange noises, bedroom laptop, microsound, generative, glitch dub, idm, minimal techno, blip hop, psychedelia, noise, free jazz, avant-anything

  8. soundtransit.nl
    http://soundtransit.nl/search/
    Online community dedicated to field recording and phonography. Book acoustical flight-tickets from location to location then get yourself seated to listen.

  9. phonography.org
    http://www.phonography.org/comp01.htm
    List of phonographers and many beautiful fieldrecording examples to be found.

  10. extreme synth weirdness project
    http://www.keyssynthsandsamplers.com/weird/
    Synthesizer Love and Madness.

  11. phonophilia.com
    http://phonophilia.com/cms/?q=tags/field_recordings
    Fieldrecording blog of Steev Hise. He is a true soundwalker.

  12. fieldmuzick.net
    http://www.fieldmuzick.net/index.phtml
    Blog of Marcus Obst about enviromental recording.

  13. ccmixter.org
    http://ccmixter.org/media/view/media/samples
    Creative Commons Sample Library.

  14. archive.org
    http://www.archive.org/details/audio
    Archive's collection of audio recordings - 127.000 items.

  15. Guide to Sound Effects
    http://www.epicsound.com/sfx/
    Long list of examples from foley artist.

Loosely related

  1. librivox.org
    http://www.librivox.org/
    The mother to pdsounds. A booming collaborative project dedicated to produce free public domain volunteer read audiobooks of classic literature.
    1. pdmovies.com
      http://pdmovies.com/
      Hundreds of public domain movies for preview or download. Great public domain free film archive.

    2. textosolvo.net
      http://textosolvo.net
      Blog of Hugh McGuire, the founder of Librivox. "Musings on open collaborative projects..."

    3. furthernoise.org
      http://www.furthernoise.org/
      Acoustical artists and noisemakers. Endless source for discoveries, poetic experiences...

    4. sonicpostcards.org
      http://www.sonicpostcards.org/project-info
      Sonic Postcards is a unique and innovative national education programme which explores these issues and encourages participants to “open their ears”. The project enables pupils from across the UK to explore and compare their local sound environments through the composition and exchange - via the internet - of sound postcards with other schools.

    Rescources

    1. audacity - free sound editing software
      http://audacity.sourceforge.net