Where can I find an audio library or "sound website" or the like? I
need sounds of all kinds ranging from animals, moving trains, ethnic
singing to radio interviews. And most importantly, it all needs to be
copy-right free!!!

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 02 Apr 2005 09:19 PST

Hi!

I would just like to know if you are going to have a non-commercial
use of these sound effects? The reason is that some websites provide
sound effects for free but if you are going to use them in a
commercial manner and you're going to earn money from such usage.

Thanks!

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Clarification of Question by bailey10-ga on 03 Apr 2005 04:38 PDT

Hi... 
    it's a bit of a tricky one. I'm a singer/song-writer trying
something new. At this stage of the game the sounds effects will be
for personal use only, as I experiment with with what it is exactly I
want to do. But over-all I am looking to create an album for
commercial use. (Whether that means I will make money out of it
remains to be seen!)

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 03 Apr 2005 06:18 PDT

Have a look at these folks:


http://www.opsound.org/opsound.html


I haven't played with the site enough to know how fully it will meet
your needs, but it sure likes this is a start, at least.


Good luck with your project.


pafalafa-ga

http://www.sounddogs.com/ looks good.

What you are looking for is not copyright-free but royalty-free i.e.
you can incorporate the sounds into your own works without paying
royalties, but you would not be allowed to resell the sounds as a
collection of sounds.

The BBC used to make available part of their sound effects library for
this purpose, but it's not cheap - $595 for 40 CDs from one vendor.
You might be able to borrow it from a library, eg
http://www.aadl.org/stories/storyReader$2511
This also has a sample listing of the contents of some BBC discs.
http://dolphin.upenn.edu/~jmosley/tutorials/soundeffects/

Ah, putting in < BBC sound effects library > into everyone's favourite
search engine produces lots of useful looking hits including
sound-effects-library.com

Owain

Sony has a great SFX library that's relatively inexpensive.  Once you
own them, you can use them as you see fit (as long as you're not
reslling them, of course).

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/loop_libraries/default.asp?CID=91 

If the effects need alteration so they're more "exclusive" (so you
don't hear the same exact effects on the recordings of others) they
can be altered (pitch shifted, lengthened, shortened, etc.), by an
audio engineer or mastering engineer such as:

http://www.massivemastering.com 

or

http://www.bluebearsound.com