Free Sound Archive

February 2, 2009 12:49 PM

Your alarm goes off, you get up to attend to your morning ritual, have a coffee, take a shower, head off to work, get on to Metafilter, and there you discover the wonders of the Free Sound Project! (previously)
posted by leotrotsky (17 comments total)

Or you could just stop and smell the roses.
posted by leotrotsky at 12:55 PM on February 2, 2009

*punches alarm clock, rolls over*

Pretty cool site. Some of the first vinyl records I bought as a kid were Sound Effects records. My pals and I would create little plays on my Dad's tape recorder with them. I still have those records, but unfortunately none of those tapes.
posted by Ron Thanagar at 12:58 PM on February 2, 2009

Much fun to hit the randomizer over and over. Not very productive, but much fun.
posted by MrMoonPie at 1:02 PM on February 2, 2009

so weird. I was just on there last night to a 100hz tone for my test pattern page!
posted by joelf at 1:03 PM on February 2, 2009

I found a few sounds on the Freesound Project for a CD I recorded. Great resource.
posted by kingbenny at 1:08 PM on February 2, 2009

I Wake up, get out of bed
drag a comb across my head
Find my way downstairs and drink a cup
and looking up, I noticed I am late
Find my coat and grab my hat
Make the bus in seconds flat
Find my way upstairs and have a smoke
Somebody speaks and I go into a dream
posted by joelf at 1:11 PM on February 2, 2009

I read the news today, Oh boy...
posted by leotrotsky at 1:16 PM on February 2, 2009

Or you could just stop and smell the roses.


The nightingale recording has occasional jet engine sounds passing overhead, which for some reason takes the track from mere bird noodling to complete transportation to another place and time.

I press the headphones tightly against my ears to catch every nuance and block out all unwelcome sounds, and suddenly it's like I'm no longer at work, staring blankly out a window at filthy snowlined streets.

I'm sitting on a rock in a sundrenched clearing. Heat bathes my skin. Tall wildgrass waves lazily as bits of organic fluff waft by on dimunitive breezes. Full, tall, healthy trees cut sharply into a blue sky crisscrossed with wispy white trails that smear as they drift away. I have no worries and nowhere to go.
posted by CynicalKnight at 1:33 PM on February 2, 2009 [2 favorites]

I take it, CynicalKnight, you're not the rocket scientist who left the "lame" tag on that sound?
posted by maxwelton at 1:40 PM on February 2, 2009

I read the news today, Oh boy...

About a lucky man who made the grade.
And though the news was rather sad.
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph
posted by The White Hat at 1:41 PM on February 2, 2009

Just used them for the first time a couple o' days ago. Great bird chirping!
posted by jettloe at 1:46 PM on February 2, 2009

Looks pretty complete to me.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:55 PM on February 2, 2009 [1 favorite]

Hm, what's the sound of a double?

No complaints, though, I love Freesound and use it regularly. Nice to see renewed interest.
posted by greatgefilte at 2:01 PM on February 2, 2009

greatgefilte: notice the (previously) link?
posted by leotrotsky at 2:09 PM on February 2, 2009

leotrotsky, good point, I didn't, though I'm not quite sure that linking to a bunch of sound effects on a previously-posted site makes for a great FPP. Nothing personal, I still think it's a great resource, though!
posted by greatgefilte at 2:35 PM on February 2, 2009

Another growabrain subscriber!
posted by DU at 2:40 PM on February 2, 2009

Sweet! A new ringtone.
posted by JDHarper at 4:13 PM on February 2, 2009