Sourcing free sound effects
by Mike Stoddart · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 06/16/2002 (8:40 pm) · 9 replies
Rather than just blatantly copying sound effects from other games, such as Day of Defeat, Allied Assault: Medal of Honor, are there any sites that offer free sound clips of WW2 weapons? I'm looking for sound effects for when various weapons are fired, re-loaded or fired when empty.
I've been doing some searches on Google, and I've not managed to find anything. I thought I might stumble upon some historic war sites that may have such sounds available.
I should point out that I only borrowed sounds and graphics while developing my game! In case you thought I was a pirate!
I've been doing some searches on Google, and I've not managed to find anything. I thought I might stumble upon some historic war sites that may have such sounds available.
I should point out that I only borrowed sounds and graphics while developing my game! In case you thought I was a pirate!
#3
www.gamasutraexchange.com
Don't try finding free soundeffects, they all are copyright protected unless you record them yourself or buy a license to them.
Easiest way would be to find an audio engineer. Of course its hard to find a real one, because you can't controll if the person you've hired just rips the content from movies, games or the web. A good way to check on that is give some unique voice recording "test" tasks to the person you're about to bring on the project. You'll quickly see if the person can record that line you told him or her to record, and how it sounds. If he or she brings the "my mic is broken", don't bother any further, look for someone else.
08/17/2002 (12:55 pm)
www.sounddogs.comwww.gamasutraexchange.com
Don't try finding free soundeffects, they all are copyright protected unless you record them yourself or buy a license to them.
Easiest way would be to find an audio engineer. Of course its hard to find a real one, because you can't controll if the person you've hired just rips the content from movies, games or the web. A good way to check on that is give some unique voice recording "test" tasks to the person you're about to bring on the project. You'll quickly see if the person can record that line you told him or her to record, and how it sounds. If he or she brings the "my mic is broken", don't bother any further, look for someone else.
#4
09/07/2002 (10:08 pm)
Markus has a good point. I'm a sound engineer myself, there are alot of fakes out there. I have top of the line equipment, and I actually record my own sounds. Then I see people out here saying they can, and they pull out something that just happens to sound exactly like something from Counter-Strike or Tribes or Unreal Tournament. They put a bad name to what I love to do.
#5
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
Most recordings are amateurly created, so they may need some massaging. I am not sure if they have any weapon sounds.
Gokce
06/29/2006 (8:38 pm)
Markus, don't be so shure :) There are free sounds out there. Have you heard of the freesound project?http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
Most recordings are amateurly created, so they may need some massaging. I am not sure if they have any weapon sounds.
Gokce
#6
http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
Most recordings are amateurly created, so you may need some processing. I am not sure if they have any weapon sounds.
Gokce
06/29/2006 (8:39 pm)
Markus, don't be so shure :) There are free sounds out there. Have you heard of the freesound project?http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php
Most recordings are amateurly created, so you may need some processing. I am not sure if they have any weapon sounds.
Gokce
#7
06/29/2006 (10:08 pm)
Wow. This is a 4 year old thread Seung. Don't know if Markus will ever see it again...
#8
Sonic
Custom Audio For Games
www.sonicvalley.com
07/24/2006 (8:15 am)
Free sound is a good site and all free under the creative commons license. There are weapon sounds in that site that I recorded last year.Sonic
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#9
11/05/2007 (7:59 pm)
Yes, I used findsounds.com to get some decent magic-fireball clips. 
Torque Owner Mike Stoddart
www.geekswithguns.com/sounds.html