Hi,
I would like to know if there are any suggestions on finding a free sound-effects site. I want to add the sounds of a thunder storm to my slideshow.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
You can probably find something at
http://www.freesound.org/
These sound files make use of a Creative Commons license. You can often use them completely free, sometimes you have to give credit, etc
There are also:
http://www.videomaker.com/downloads/free-sound-effects/
http://simplythebest.net/sounds/
For what it’s worth, you can also create a lot of your own effects – amazing how good “thunder” can sound when you take something rattling and slow it down a lot in an audio editor. All sorts of cool effects are possible (do a Google search on Foley sound effects. Here is a YouTube video on some of the basics on how to do stuff …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYTVeTxRswg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYTVeTxRswg
Mikey, that’s an excellent video, and I’ll be going back to watch the other one I spotted on sound effects. Of course, owning a boom mic is more a need for those doing a lot of video, but I’ve managed sound effects with a good-quality hand-held recorder. I used it for creating the sound of a match being struck and its flaring flame. Worked well. Another more ambitious thing lining up an array of stemware glasses and “pinging” each of them with a glass tube (that I have for no known reason). The sounds were brought into Adobe Audition and the pitch adjusted until they formed a complete, on-key octave, these notes then being used to create a song for a slide show.
Recording sounds can be a lot of fun, and it doesn’t really take a lot of expensive equipment. The best thing I ever had for voice-over was a headset stolen from a hands-free phone. The mic on that set was perfectly adjusted to the speaking voice.