BBC offers 16,000 free sound effect samples from its archive for free download

[editor]

These 16,016 BBC Sound Effects are made available by the BBC in WAV format to download for use under the terms of the RemArc Licence. The Sound Effects are BBC copyright, but they may be used for personal, educational or research purposes, as detailed in the license.

It's currently in beta, but you can dive in and start downloading right now from the BBC Sound Effects website.

There's some awesomely strange stuff in there too! Check out ''Mama' doll.'

 

[editor]

Lots of steam engine sounds too!

 

[Fez909]

Ace, thank you

 

[Fez909]

Shit, there's everything here.

I'm gonna try to make a tune using only samples from this library.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

There are loads of bizarrely specific sound clips on there.

 

[alan_]

Shit, there's everything here.

I'm gonna try to make a tune using only samples from this library.

funnily enough that was one of my first thoughts regarding this resource. May be it could spawn a whole new thread.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Or hijack this one. I mean, how much discussion can actually happen about sound effects?

 

[Yossarian]

Now I know what a carrot and beetroot washing machine sounds like - and noon traffic in Ammassalik, East Greenland.

The full library of 29,420 BBC sound effects - this page has a link to a spreadsheet listing them - includes 10,000 bird sounds, wonder what proportion of them have been released.

 

[ruffneck23]

Nice 1 , thanks

 

[cybershot]

I'm guessing the Internet is going nuts for this, the site is sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

 

[cybershot]

NASA search brings back some cool space stuff.

 

[gentlegreen]

No sound of rhubarb growing in a shed

 

[8ball]

I'm gonna try to make a tune using only samples from this library.

I had the same idea - we should post them on this thread.

Yours will be better.

 

[8ball]

Just remembered my music software is broken...

 

[gentlegreen]