Where do you all get the Sound FX?

sacrejacques · Post by **sacrejacques** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:11 am

I watch other people's animatons and I noticed thyey have really good sound effects.

Where do you get them?

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:52 am

There are some sources online, but they are hard to find, especially without any kind of copyright restrictions.

One place that I found that I didn't expect was my local library - several dozen CDs of hundreds of sound effects each.

nobudget · Post by **nobudget** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:08 pm

Try here: http://www.meanrabbit.com/wavhtml/wavepage.htm

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:43 pm

http://www.findsounds.com

or make them yourself.

jahnocli · Post by **jahnocli** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 8:52 pm

Take a look at Flashkit

red hamster · Post by **red hamster** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 1:15 am

grsites.com

bald_dude · Post by **bald_dude** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:51 pm

usually old fps games have a folder with wav format sounds
CS medal of honour etc

mr. blaaa · Post by **mr. blaaa** » Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:38 am

cribble wrote:or make them yourself.

best way, i can second that. most web SFX are crap.
the thing with the games .wav is that they are licensed in most ways (well, like a CS-player cares about licenses^^)
So everything depends on what you will do. Further. More.

WillBellJr · Post by **WillBellJr** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 5:48 pm

I was in the shopping mall and stepped into a music store and found 3 different sets (2-discs in each set) of "Fun with Sound Effects"

Very inexpensive $10 - 15 if I remember correctly

Sony has a nice sound effects library for ACID Pro (which of course can be used for other things)

Digital Juice ( http://www.digitaljuice.com ) is coming out with a brand new library of sound effects - pricey but hella worth it...

-Will

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:24 pm

also (as an extension from my last post) there seems to be alot of software that can provide sfx's. MIDI even has a sound effect bank... which is not exactly that good, but look further into other software packages and soundfonts you can find some great sfx. Reason has some great sound effects, and realistic if that.

But if you're getting into the animation business, and using voices, sounds and whatever, i think its worth investing into it. Get a decent mic (shure sm58 is always a good choice), something to record with (Minidisc, computer/soundcards, mixers... even MP3 players have mics built into them nowadays) and accessories (mic stands, pop shields) and get it done yourself.

Since i've gotten into sound i have 6 minidisc's full off voice's and ambience/environments. The Minidisc player has been my best investment ever.. and i didn't even have to break mr piggy open either.

If its a passion, put some money into it.