- [Richard] In this video, I'm going to show you
where I find the sounds for my Sound Design
and how I approach searching for the right sounds.
There are a ton of resources out there.
You can pay hundreds of dollars
just to get the right sound packs
but there are a great free resources also.
In this video, I will focus on my favorite resource
for free sounds, which is Freesound.org.
It has a variety of different licenses,
which you can use also in commercial projects
and let me guide you through this great website.
Let's search for a swoosh sound.
So one great thing about this site
is you will directly see the wave form here
and you can have a listen online,
you don't have to download the sound in order to hear it,
you can just have a listen right in the website.
(swooshing)
That's pretty cool.
A bit too strong for a campfire animation,
but well, this is just for the purpose
of showing you this site.
I have already mentioned licenses,
which means in which way are you allowed
to use the sounds in your projects.
And you can filter through sounds to show you
just the right licenses that are appropriate for your usage.
Attribution means you can use it,
but you have to attribute the author.
Attribution non-commercial means the same,
but you cannot use it in commercial products.
And creative commons zero means you can use it,
well, in any way you like.
And my disclaimer, I'm not a lawyer
so before you use all the sounds, please check the licenses
if it's really appropriate for your project.
In order to have a listen to the sounds
you don't have to register,
but as soon as you want to download and use the sounds
you will have to set up a free account.
And if you click on the sound here on the headline,
you will see a detailed view with some description
if you needed more details about the license
and the quality of the sound.
And of course, you can have a listen here again.
(swooshing)
And you can skip through the sound.
You can quickly see if this is what you need.
Another great feature of Freesound.org
is what you can see here, at these tiny icons.
This swoosh belongs to a pack,
as you can see here, which means there is more.
The author has more sounds similar to this one.
And if I click on this,
I see there are a lot of swooshes in the same style
or at least a lot of swooshes that belong to the same pack.
(swooshing)
There is another option called similar sounds.
Well, I'm not a huge fan of this feature.
It sounds cool, but I don't really know how it works.
I think this is some kind of algorithm
predicting which other sounds on the platform
might be similar to the sound you used as a basis.
But as you can see here, it doesn't really work.
I started with a swoosh and I clicked on similar sounds
and I get
(bass sound)
a bass sound,
(comedy music)
comedy music.
So, the feature sounds nice
but I don't really find it to be useful.
So I've been searching for swoosh,
let's search for ambiance.
At the campfire animation, we needed a fire ambience.
I'll look for ambience and fire
and the wave forms telling you, ah, this looks good.
Let's have a look at this one.
(fire crackling)
It sounds like fire, but it's a bit too strong.
We need a subtle sound.
(softer fire crackling)
It's hard to listen.
Yeah, it's hard to hear, but I think this could be useful.
So I would take this one
or you can go for ambience, crickets
to get this outdoor sound.
(crickets chirping)
Ah, yeah, that's cool.
The search in this platform, really works well.
I typically use it the way I show you.
Like I type in like, I need an ambience
plus fire or any other words or adjectives I'm looking for.
And I start from there.
The hardest part, I think the hardest sound
was to find a metal-like sound for the robot.
Didn't really know what to look for
and what to type in here to sound.
I started with metal.
Well, but metal is really
(sound roaring)
it could be a lot, you know.
It tapping metal.
(metal tapping)
It didn't really help me.
I needed a huge metal structure
and I tried out a lot of different words together
with this word metal.
And in the end, as you can see here,
I tried out a lot like metal move, metal wail,
What happened here?
(metal creaking)
It's not bad, but it wasn't this type of sound
I was looking for for the robot.
In the end, I found the perfect soundbite
typing in metal cable and I found this one.
(metal creaking)
That was the sound I was looking for.
But I found it through exploring.
Very often when I do sound design,
I have just a vague idea what I'm looking for.
So get creative with this search option.
Just type in a few words,
try out some sounds you see on the website,
click through the different pages.
Like sometimes I just jump into the last page
and very often I somehow accidentally,
find the right sound I am looking for.
And one last thing I was searching for was
the blips and blops think.
Well, you could use, I searched for blip.
(electronic blipping)
Well, and this gave me a lot of electronic sounds,
which wasn't what I was looking for in,
and in the end, blop was the way to go.
(electronic thumping)
Yeah, that's cool.
(person yelling)
Oh, no, this one or this one.
(electronic Popping)
And again, I didn't know beforehand
the right word, like blob with a B.
I just tried it out like blip
with B with P at the end, blop with P at the end
and I ended up finding the right sounds
with this word here, like blop.
It's just, very often you just have to try out
until you find the right words for the search
and to find the right sounds.
Just get creative.