I read a post in a forum talking about this website where you could find just about any sound effect/sound you wanted. It was described as the Google of samples. I went to the site to check it out and found it was pretty useful. The site is pretty straight forward, you type in a sound you are looking for and it returns a LOT of results. I searched for gunshot and it returned over 200 results.
I will say that if you're doing commercial work I would be a little Leary of findsound's returns as they do just link you to samples found all over the web (which is why they give so many results) and I'm sure that some of the sounds are copyrighted. If you're working on a personal project, it couldn't hurt, but for professional work I would definitely look at the URL of the site the sound came from and find out if it's ok to use them to avoid any trouble.
The cool thing I liked about the site was that you can filter your searches by file types, number of channels, resolution, and sample rate. It will search for AIFF, AU, MP3, and WAVE formats. You can choose between mono or stereo samples and 8 bit or 16 bit samples.
With all of that said if you are needing a sound effect or sample for your music or whatever reason http://www.findsounds.com/ is a quick and easy to use place to find them.
I will say that if you're doing commercial work I would be a little Leary of findsound's returns as they do just link you to samples found all over the web (which is why they give so many results) and I'm sure that some of the sounds are copyrighted. If you're working on a personal project, it couldn't hurt, but for professional work I would definitely look at the URL of the site the sound came from and find out if it's ok to use them to avoid any trouble.
The cool thing I liked about the site was that you can filter your searches by file types, number of channels, resolution, and sample rate. It will search for AIFF, AU, MP3, and WAVE formats. You can choose between mono or stereo samples and 8 bit or 16 bit samples.
With all of that said if you are needing a sound effect or sample for your music or whatever reason http://www.findsounds.com/ is a quick and easy to use place to find them.
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I found this list of other sites like this that someone had posted right after I finished this article.
http://www.phatdrumloops.com
http://www.sounddogs.com
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/
http://www.samplenet.co.uk/
http://www.synthzone.com/drums.htm
http://www.clayloomis.com/index.html
http://www.internet.is/reason/
http://www.wavcentral.com/
http://www.orchardoo.com/
http://www.dailywav.com/
another great site for free sound effects, loops and samples is www.soundsnap.com
they've got a great variety and I find searching for stuff there quite intuitive
Thanks man, I'll check it out as well.
I may be a little bit late for this comment, but anyhow. Another site which which is active now is http://www.findfiles.net, which has, like findsounds.com, deep links to sound files and loops. Let you actually search for midi and mp3 too.
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