Downloading Sound Effects A La Carte

[Ty Ford]

Hello Stewart and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

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Or your local SPCA

Regards,

Ty Ford

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[Stephen Hall]

Stewart,

You might look into Freesound.org. It’s a huge collection of free (natch) sound clips of all kinds of things. The clips are released under a Creative Commons license, so it’s a nice resource.

Quality varies from very high-quality pro-level stuff to ghastly things that have been crudely manipulated, but you can find some gems. It’s nicely tagged and indexed, so you can search based on keywords.

I’ve contributed a handful of things there and gotten some nice responses.

Cheers,

Stephen Hall
https://sound.facesproject.org/

[Koffi alain Sessi]

Hi Stewart,

Try this https://www.multimedia-stock.com/sounds
Like on most free sites some are good and some not so good. Registration is required. I do second Ty’s suggestion of recording your own sounds. This approach gives you more control over your SFX.

Best,

Alain Koffi Sessi
Sound Designer

[Andy Balla]

freesound.org has always been a good starting point for me, when its something that I can’t record myself locally. I generally use the sounds I find there as inspiration, though. Once I’ve put together something I like in pre-production, I record things locally which will get me to the same place. Sometimes there are things I just can’t find locally, so I use the recordings from that site, though.