Sound Effects Library

[cmnervegna]

Hello, I'm looking around online for a sound effects library/catalog that I could buy or download for free. I know there are sites that you could buy a single sound effect. But i was wondering if their is a library I could buy that has plenty of them so that way I have them handy on my computer. Sound effects I was looking for are door creaking/ footsteps/ wind/ gun shots/ movement in general. Just daily sounds we make through out the day. I did try recording the sounds with my camera, it did not sound that great. I prefer to just buy it.

Do you guys know any good products or sites that you could buy/download a library full of sound effects?

Thanks.

 

[PaulGriffith]

The Sony Motion Picture SFX Library is pretty killer, but definitely not free.

FreeSound.org is a great resource too, and it is free. You download one at a time though. But that's a good thing, it doesn't take up HDD space and you have a great search with keywords.

SFX are great to have on hand, but for most things decent foley will sound much much better.

 

[Alcove Audio]

You can get most of the major sound FX library packages from Sound Ideas:

http://www.sound-ideas.com/sfxmenu.html

Prices range from $50 to almost $9,000 depending upon the size and format of the collection.

You can download/buy by-the-sound or complete collections from Sound Dogs and Sonomic.

http://www.sounddogs.com/

http://www.sonomic.com/

I did try recording the sounds with my camera, it did not sound that great.

A couple of decent mics and a recorder come in very handy. Besides doing your own Foley work they're great for collecting sounds in the field. Given the time/budget I always prefer to create unique sounds for the projects on which I work. Even the sounds I don't use wind up in my ever growing personal sound FX collection for use on other projects.