The best sound effects are found surfing the internet and there are all genres, for all tastes.
Not only sound professionals but we all can download sound effects to use them as cell phone ringtones, as message alerts, as Windows sounds or to mix them with music through one of the easy free DJ programs.
In this article we will first see three of the best sites where to find and download real sound effects, grouped by categories, to be previewed and, if necessary, to download the sound for free in mp3, wav or, for some, aiff file format.
Below, the search moves on many web pages with a single sound effect usually activated with a single button; these sounds are absolutely fun and all to listen to .
Turn on the computer speakers and enjoy listening.
The best sites to hear, find and download free sound effects on the internet are:
1) Flash Kit Sound FX is one of the best websites to download free sound effects.
The site has over 7000 royalty-free (unlicensed) songs available for download.
You can search for sound or noise manually or browse the different categories, such as nature, transport, musical instruments, cartoons, industry, electronics and many others.
For each sound there is information such as length, quality and size and you can hear the preview of the sound effect before downloading it.
2) Soungle looks like an audio effects search engine with a mega library of noises and sounds to download.
3) The Free Sound Project site is less organized but I recommend using the TAGS page to recognize the categories of sound effects to be found.
4) SoundJay, clearer and more beautiful, allows you to listen and download in mp3 or wav format a lot of sound effects and noises of any type by organizing the database into categories.
5) SoundBible is a splendid collection of well organized sounds, noises and audio clips with which to search and find all sorts of sound effects and to be able to download it freely.
6) FreeSFX offers several free sound effects to search through the internal search engine or by browsing the various categories.
7) Find Sounds is absolutely excellent for looking for the sounds you want to hear and download, thanks to a huge database for an almost infinite series of sound effects organized in categories and easy to consult.
The sound effects found in these sites are therefore the sounds of animals, the sounds of cities, people's exclamations, musical loops, drums, famous effects of the films, atmospheres from home, natural sounds of the sea, forests, woods, mountain, wind, birds chirping, robotic and electronic sounds, noises from industry and means of transport such as trains, cars and planes, sporting exultations, crowd noises, musical samples, clicks and beeps, the telephone, the recorder, the typewriter, fire and water and many other genres.
8) Freesound is an excellent search engine for WAV sounds and sound effects that can be used for Windows or for any other purpose.
9) The funniest sound effects are the human ones of AudienceSounds where you can find the sounds of the expressions of the man, a woman, a child or the crowd.
The noises are above all the applause, the clapping of hands, the crying or laughing, the cough, the sound of someone vomiting, the surprise or fear effect and much more.
10) In another article there are other famous sounds and phrases of the films including Italian or foreign language, with various audio clips and mp3 and wav files to be used also as ringtones for the mobile phone.
11) Intense and atmospheric soft, environmental sound effects, with rain, melodies to fall asleep and hypnotic sounds to evade the mind also reported in the article on sounds to relax, music to concentrate, sleep or wake up .
12) Sounds of nature and environmental can be heard from some websites listed in another article.
13) Pacdv is a site with a few hundred high quality sounds that can be saved and downloaded as audio files.
14) On the Coffitivity website you can listen to the sounds of a coffee bar in continuous reproduction and a study is reported according to which this type of noise is ideal for stimulating creativity.
15) The website is at savethesounds.info is a real museum of sounds of old electronics.
The sound effects are repeated in a loop and can also be activated simultaneously.
Among the most mythical sounds there are: the old telephone, the stereo cassette, the Tamagotchi, the floppy disk player, the VCR, the CD player, Windows 95, Pacman, the analog TV, the typewriter and many others for a total (for now) of 27 items kept in the Sound Museum.
16) One of the best sites to download sound effects is called SoundSnap where you can really find everything in a very well organized way and without risking getting lost in the immense database.
The site divides sounds into categories and sub-categories so that you can immediately recognize what you need.
Everyone can upload their own sound effect to the site, with the upload function, in order to feed the database.
Unfortunately, while listening to all the effects is free, the download is limited to 5 per month and if you want to download more, a paid subscription is required.
17) On the BFXR.net website there is a video game sound generator, fully customizable using levers, filters and mixers.
18) SoundsPlanet is another very complete sound search engine where sounds can be downloaded for free in MP3 format.
19) AudioMicro has around 2, 000 free good quality sound effects.
20) Soundjay has many completely free sound effects which can be downloaded without registration.
21) Soundgator is another site with free sounds to download.
22) Grsites has a hundred simple sound effects that you can download for free and without registration.
23) Looperman, with many free sound effects divided into categories.
24) You can listen to animal sounds on Google directly with a search.
25) freeSound with about 100 free sound effects to use and download.
26) Zapslat, with a collection of 10, 000 sound effects in mp3 or wav.
27) OrangeFreesounds, a list of sound effects, music loops and other sounds.
28) Freesoundeffects.com with different categories of sound effects
29) Blastwave FX a huge collection with lots of sounds to download and hear and use freely.
30) Soundeffectsforfree.com is a site with no limitations for downloading sound effects.
31) Mediacollege.com divides hundreds of effects in wav format into categories.
32) Soundscrates are 30 categories of sound effects free to use for any purpose and without a license.
33) 99 Sounds many sounds to download.
34) Halloween to find scary sounds.
35) Gameburp includes wav and ogg sound files.
36) Acoustica different categories of sounds to listen and download.
Other sites are:
37) Partnersinrhyme
38) Sonnyboo.com
39) Airbornesound.com
40) Soundgator
41) PachD
42) DEusX.com
43) Dramaticpublishing.com
44) Boojiejack
45) Noiseforfun
46) ARchive.org
47) SOundBank
48) SalamiSOund
49) Freeloops
50) MyInstants is one of the best-stocked sites of sound effects all over the internet, with a search bar and a big button for each sound effect just to press.
For Windows 10 and 8 only, there are some applications with sound effects, where you just have to press the button to listen to the sounds:
- Scary Sounds contains many scary sound effects: screams, laughter, sinister noises, monster lines and so on.
- Star Wars, with the space effects of Star Wars.
- Toons, with the sounds of Looney Toons characters.
- Star Trek
- Fart, with the sounds of ... farts.
To listen to sound effects from your mobile phone we have at least these two applications:
- iButtons, the best free application for iPhone and iPad with sound effects, including sounds, movie phrases and much more.
- 100 Sound Effects is the Android mobile app to hear various types of sound effects.
After the duty, let's move on to pleasure and have a lot of fun by pointing out some really funny sites characterized by a single sound effect .
These web pages are quite difficult to find on Google so if you know others, I would be happy if you will share them on this blog.
Inception button is a big red button with a very powerful sound
Instant Rimshot
This is very popular and well known, a big red button to press to listen.
Sad Trombone
The typical sound of bad news or defeat in a game, the sad trombone.
Emergency Yodel
A cheerful song in English, useful to get up when you feel sad ...
Mister Nice Hands
And this is the best ever: Pull my finger and see what effect I have on you!
A respectable petophone to simulate the sound effect of the farts (can you say in a blog darkens?)
Nelson Haha
Perfect to use when some work colleague ridicules or does something funny, the laughter of Nelson, the Simpsons character, hits and hurts.
Drama Button
The sound of a 70s-style dramatic moment, when the moment is salient and doubtful.
Hiyoooo!
Maybe a character from American TV shouts HYIOOOOOOO and everyone is happy.
Finally, best of all, the Instants site makes a collection of many buttons to press to play a particular sound or noise, including those seen above and many others.
In a previous article we had seen the best sites for playing drums online.
READ ALSO: 10 sites with sounds to keep attention and cover silence and noises
Not only sound professionals but we all can download sound effects to use them as cell phone ringtones, as message alerts, as Windows sounds or to mix them with music through one of the easy free DJ programs.
In this article we will first see three of the best sites where to find and download real sound effects, grouped by categories, to be previewed and, if necessary, to download the sound for free in mp3, wav or, for some, aiff file format.
Below, the search moves on many web pages with a single sound effect usually activated with a single button; these sounds are absolutely fun and all to listen to .
Turn on the computer speakers and enjoy listening.
The best sites to hear, find and download free sound effects on the internet are:
1) Flash Kit Sound FX is one of the best websites to download free sound effects.
The site has over 7000 royalty-free (unlicensed) songs available for download.
You can search for sound or noise manually or browse the different categories, such as nature, transport, musical instruments, cartoons, industry, electronics and many others.
For each sound there is information such as length, quality and size and you can hear the preview of the sound effect before downloading it.
2) Soungle looks like an audio effects search engine with a mega library of noises and sounds to download.
3) The Free Sound Project site is less organized but I recommend using the TAGS page to recognize the categories of sound effects to be found.
4) SoundJay, clearer and more beautiful, allows you to listen and download in mp3 or wav format a lot of sound effects and noises of any type by organizing the database into categories.
5) SoundBible is a splendid collection of well organized sounds, noises and audio clips with which to search and find all sorts of sound effects and to be able to download it freely.
6) FreeSFX offers several free sound effects to search through the internal search engine or by browsing the various categories.
7) Find Sounds is absolutely excellent for looking for the sounds you want to hear and download, thanks to a huge database for an almost infinite series of sound effects organized in categories and easy to consult.
The sound effects found in these sites are therefore the sounds of animals, the sounds of cities, people's exclamations, musical loops, drums, famous effects of the films, atmospheres from home, natural sounds of the sea, forests, woods, mountain, wind, birds chirping, robotic and electronic sounds, noises from industry and means of transport such as trains, cars and planes, sporting exultations, crowd noises, musical samples, clicks and beeps, the telephone, the recorder, the typewriter, fire and water and many other genres.
8) Freesound is an excellent search engine for WAV sounds and sound effects that can be used for Windows or for any other purpose.
9) The funniest sound effects are the human ones of AudienceSounds where you can find the sounds of the expressions of the man, a woman, a child or the crowd.
The noises are above all the applause, the clapping of hands, the crying or laughing, the cough, the sound of someone vomiting, the surprise or fear effect and much more.
10) In another article there are other famous sounds and phrases of the films including Italian or foreign language, with various audio clips and mp3 and wav files to be used also as ringtones for the mobile phone.
11) Intense and atmospheric soft, environmental sound effects, with rain, melodies to fall asleep and hypnotic sounds to evade the mind also reported in the article on sounds to relax, music to concentrate, sleep or wake up .
12) Sounds of nature and environmental can be heard from some websites listed in another article.
13) Pacdv is a site with a few hundred high quality sounds that can be saved and downloaded as audio files.
14) On the Coffitivity website you can listen to the sounds of a coffee bar in continuous reproduction and a study is reported according to which this type of noise is ideal for stimulating creativity.
15) The website is at savethesounds.info is a real museum of sounds of old electronics.
The sound effects are repeated in a loop and can also be activated simultaneously.
Among the most mythical sounds there are: the old telephone, the stereo cassette, the Tamagotchi, the floppy disk player, the VCR, the CD player, Windows 95, Pacman, the analog TV, the typewriter and many others for a total (for now) of 27 items kept in the Sound Museum.
16) One of the best sites to download sound effects is called SoundSnap where you can really find everything in a very well organized way and without risking getting lost in the immense database.
The site divides sounds into categories and sub-categories so that you can immediately recognize what you need.
Everyone can upload their own sound effect to the site, with the upload function, in order to feed the database.
Unfortunately, while listening to all the effects is free, the download is limited to 5 per month and if you want to download more, a paid subscription is required.
17) On the BFXR.net website there is a video game sound generator, fully customizable using levers, filters and mixers.
18) SoundsPlanet is another very complete sound search engine where sounds can be downloaded for free in MP3 format.
19) AudioMicro has around 2, 000 free good quality sound effects.
20) Soundjay has many completely free sound effects which can be downloaded without registration.
21) Soundgator is another site with free sounds to download.
22) Grsites has a hundred simple sound effects that you can download for free and without registration.
23) Looperman, with many free sound effects divided into categories.
24) You can listen to animal sounds on Google directly with a search.
25) freeSound with about 100 free sound effects to use and download.
26) Zapslat, with a collection of 10, 000 sound effects in mp3 or wav.
27) OrangeFreesounds, a list of sound effects, music loops and other sounds.
28) Freesoundeffects.com with different categories of sound effects
29) Blastwave FX a huge collection with lots of sounds to download and hear and use freely.
30) Soundeffectsforfree.com is a site with no limitations for downloading sound effects.
31) Mediacollege.com divides hundreds of effects in wav format into categories.
32) Soundscrates are 30 categories of sound effects free to use for any purpose and without a license.
33) 99 Sounds many sounds to download.
34) Halloween to find scary sounds.
35) Gameburp includes wav and ogg sound files.
36) Acoustica different categories of sounds to listen and download.
Other sites are:
37) Partnersinrhyme
38) Sonnyboo.com
39) Airbornesound.com
40) Soundgator
41) PachD
42) DEusX.com
43) Dramaticpublishing.com
44) Boojiejack
45) Noiseforfun
46) ARchive.org
47) SOundBank
48) SalamiSOund
49) Freeloops
50) MyInstants is one of the best-stocked sites of sound effects all over the internet, with a search bar and a big button for each sound effect just to press.
For Windows 10 and 8 only, there are some applications with sound effects, where you just have to press the button to listen to the sounds:
- Scary Sounds contains many scary sound effects: screams, laughter, sinister noises, monster lines and so on.
- Star Wars, with the space effects of Star Wars.
- Toons, with the sounds of Looney Toons characters.
- Star Trek
- Fart, with the sounds of ... farts.
To listen to sound effects from your mobile phone we have at least these two applications:
- iButtons, the best free application for iPhone and iPad with sound effects, including sounds, movie phrases and much more.
- 100 Sound Effects is the Android mobile app to hear various types of sound effects.
After the duty, let's move on to pleasure and have a lot of fun by pointing out some really funny sites characterized by a single sound effect .
These web pages are quite difficult to find on Google so if you know others, I would be happy if you will share them on this blog.
Inception button is a big red button with a very powerful sound
Instant Rimshot
This is very popular and well known, a big red button to press to listen.
Sad Trombone
The typical sound of bad news or defeat in a game, the sad trombone.
Emergency Yodel
A cheerful song in English, useful to get up when you feel sad ...
Mister Nice Hands
And this is the best ever: Pull my finger and see what effect I have on you!
A respectable petophone to simulate the sound effect of the farts (can you say in a blog darkens?)
Nelson Haha
Perfect to use when some work colleague ridicules or does something funny, the laughter of Nelson, the Simpsons character, hits and hurts.
Drama Button
The sound of a 70s-style dramatic moment, when the moment is salient and doubtful.
Hiyoooo!
Maybe a character from American TV shouts HYIOOOOOOO and everyone is happy.
Finally, best of all, the Instants site makes a collection of many buttons to press to play a particular sound or noise, including those seen above and many others.
In a previous article we had seen the best sites for playing drums online.
READ ALSO: 10 sites with sounds to keep attention and cover silence and noises
