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Free sound effects – free WAV files plus links to the best sites
Free sites and sound libraries
Airborne Sound
A Toronto based website offering a range of free and paid sound effects made by a collective of professional field recordists from the area.
The free downloads focus around crowd, ambient, and construction sound across several packs in the 1.5GB range.
Downloads are available in 44.Khz 16bit and 96KHz 24bit files.
Paid and free content requires no attribution for the duration of the license, you can view the full license here.
Visit Airborne Sound
Free SFX
Featuring what can only be described as a ton of royalty-free sound and music files. Available for both personal and commercial projects. There are lots of categories to choose from, each with about or dozen or more sounds.
Files are available as 320 Kbps Mp3’s.
Attribution license requires a reference to the company.
Visit Free SFX
Freesound
Freesound has been offering a wealth of good quality files for well over a decade now.
All the content is uploaded by the community, so you get quite a bit of everything. A good site to find sounds for blending and mixing.
Files come in a range of lossless WAV/AIFF and lossy Mp3/AAC files.
Three licenses are on offer that each vary on the creative commons, for more information click here.
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Zapsplat
The free sounds section claims over 44,842 sounds. That’s a lot! They pretty much have every major sound category you can think of.
Free sounds are available in Mp3 only and use their standard licensing model that requires attribution to their site. A paid tier is also available that offers WAVE files and no visible attribution.
Visit Zapsplat
Royalty-free sound effect files
1 Shots
Rewind Swipe – Link
Rapid Fire Sputter Shots – Link
Razor Buzz By – Link
Fly By Sizzle – Link
Alarms & Bells
Door Bell – Link
School Bell – Link
Meltdown Alarm – Link
Telephone Ring – Link
Animals
Tiger – Link
Cars
Ferrari Testarossa – Link
Police Car Chase – Link
Doors
Castle Drawbridge – Link
Jail Door – Link
Explosions
Howitzer Cannon – Link
Sharp Explosion – Link
Robot Quack Quack Boom – Link
Environment
Arctic Wind Drone – Link
Thunder – Link
Pipe Howl Rumble – Link
Loon Calls – Link
Forest Daytime – Link
Footsteps
Female Footsteps – Link
Impacts
Glass Smash – Link
Low Crashy Metal Hit – Link
Roof Crash – Link
Mechanical
Electrical Spark – Link
Squeeze Toy – Link
Music & Rhythm
Horror Rhythm Pattern – Link
Swelling Evil Sweep – Link
Subliminal Record Scratch – Link
Timpani – Link
Panned Stab Flourish – Link
Sports
Basketball Practice – Link
Voice
Booing Crowd – Link
Cartoon Head Shake – Link
Banshee – Link
Comedy Burp – Link
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