great site for sound fx

nocturnal_f wrote on 1/3/2005, 4:57 PM
i hate sounddogs.com that site is complete crap. but i dont know any other site that has good quality sound fx that they use for movies and commercials and all the other cool sound fx they use nowadays.

i saw that one expensive sony sound fx package that is around 500 bucks which is wayyy too much for my budget. too expensive. i wish i have it but i can't. maybe in the future or i had a job involving video editing but i do this for fun and commiting to expensive software is not where i'm at.

is there a site or alternative way to get good quality sound fx.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 1/3/2005, 5:00 PM
If you don't like Sounddogs, then you'll likely not appreciate anything else out there either. They are the top of the class for what they provide, and they provide sounds to all sorts of large Hollywood films like BadBoyz and others. They have some free offerings, but the hope is that if you like the free, you'll buy the good stuff.
try www.wavcentral.com, maybe you'll find a winner there.
The Sony library is actually VERY cheap for what it is, too cheap.
farss wrote on 1/3/2005, 5:08 PM
Simple suggestion, very low cost, record your own. And it's amazing how with just Vegas you can turn one thing into another, with SF you can do even more and it gives you a variety of generators which are the building blocks of many sounds.
The big problem I have with many sound FXs are they're not quite right so in the end you can fiddle with them or it may be easier to start from scratch yourself.
You don't need a recording studio either, if you've got a camera even a cheap mic on a lead will do, need the sound of someone walking on gravel, easy, dangle mic near feet while you walk on gravel with camera in record. Need to sync it up, well go back to your video, record a pip track that line up with the footsteps, drop that into your mp3 player. Then as you walk recording the footsteps, walk in time to the pips as you play them back to yourself, poor mans foly. This way you can do pretty complex stuff like guy walking, stopping, turning etc.
Only thing to watch out for are guys in white coats if you do this in public.
Bob.
MJhig wrote on 1/3/2005, 5:19 PM
pips

What's that? Sorry for my ignorance Bob, Picture in Picture doesn't seem to fit here.

MJ
jmeredith wrote on 1/3/2005, 6:18 PM
Sound FX series is $399 at the Sony site and $299 at Safe Harbor Computers (I just received my copy today).

If ya really wanna go low cost, check out the Sony 1,001 Sound Effects disk for $15.95 (I got mine for free as it was bundled with something else but $16 isn't bad at all)
Stonefield wrote on 1/3/2005, 6:50 PM
Wanna know where I found some sound fx ? In the larger and better record stores...you'll find bargain bins full of old CD's that no one buys. In a music store chain, who's gonna buy sound fx? So more often than not ya can find sound fx cds there. I have a 3 disc compilation of 300 sounds that I think I bought for something like $3.99.

Check those bargain bins.
farss wrote on 1/3/2005, 8:39 PM
Pips, like you get on recorded time announcements, typically a short burst of 1KHz tone, also heard during countdowns, maybe 'beeps' would be a better decription. Most telephone companies used to provide a talking clock service that would say "at the pip the time will be precisely......pip, pip, pip"
Now for those of you with a yearning for things long gone thanks to the digital age the talking clock used glass disks with the audio recorded much the same as the optical tracks on film, as the thing had to run for years without wearing out any system that made contact with the media wouldn't last. Further electronics guided the read head to play the appropriate section to make up the phrases.
Bob.