It is that time of year again! When lots of SFX library creators make available free samples or entire collections at no cost. They do all this to give back to the online Audio Pro community. This is a great way to either jump start a new SFX library on your hard drive or beef up the personal library you have been living with for years.
Check back regularly as we will try to keep adding to this list as we hear about more and more releases. Participating in holiday freebies is becoming a bit of a annual tradition for many SFX providers and recordists. So let us know if we missed anything or if you are a SFX Creator doing a give away yourself.
The list starts small but grows longer as we get further into the month of December – so check back often as we attempt to stay on top of it all!?
- SoundChick SFX has an awesome Advent Calendar happening that offers a free sound every day until the 25th. Email is required. Hear Mélanie Gauthier, the owner and recordist of Sound Chick on our Selling Sound Effects Roundtable in episode 079.
- The great folks at asoundeffect.com are giving away “4 SFX presents this December” via their mailing list. The first present has already gone out (2gigs of free SFX files) so sign up so you can get in on the rest. Click here for details.
- Boom Box Library has free samples from 2 of their Libraries available for download. You can grab them from here. Kate Finan from Boom Box was the guest on our Eps. 46.
- Michael O’Connor and his great Audio Shade SFX are offering a free collection of 60 sounds. You can go get them here. And listen to a preview:
- SurroundSound Lab based out of Spain has made its Fireworks Library free to download for a limited time. Recorded in Ambisonics you get mix downs in various formats as well as the B format files. Get to here.
- This one is not strictly speaking “free”, but it is for a good cause and being put on by a group of really talented recordists. George Vlad, Andy Martin and Thomas Rex Beverly are holding a contest where you can win a bunch of awesome sound collections. All proceeds go to great nature preservation projects. It does not cost much (your choice of $1 up to a maximum of $25) and there is no downside to taking part because even if you lose the prize, you are still helping the environment. Further details here. Runs through to the end of December. Listen to George Vlad on Eps 063 of Tonebenders.
- Speaking of George Vlad, his SFX company Mindful Audio has an amazing collection of international nature ambiences available for free for a limited time. Go get it here, be fast!
- Marcel Gnauk is the world traveling machine behind freetousesounds.com and he has posted a promo code to get a free month long pro account with Soundly . This would give you access to the Soundly cloud for the month and the “tens of thousands of ready-to-use, royalty free, high-quality sound effects” it hosts. The code is “free2usesounds”
- 344 Audio has a free sound of a “Christmas Reindeer Approach, Left To Right, Hooves, Sleigh, Bells”. You can download it from their Soundcloud page.
- Stosh at Collected Transients has released a special free library to say thanks for his great year. Head here to get the Flusher! Make sure you read the pun filled product description.
- Red Libraries has announced that all subscribers to their newsletter will get a free pack of sounds on the 20th of every month coming up. They started with this month. Get it here.
- Here is a cool free plugin from Red Room Audio. Called “SNAPS CLAPS SLAPS STOMPS & SHOUTS” it is basically a choir doing everything except singing.
- Both The Recordist and Hiss and a Roar sent out links to their email subscribers with links to pull down awesome SFX collections. Head over and sign up now to see if you can still get in on it!
- Silver Platter Audio has released a cool free library of magical sounding wind chimes. Get it here.
- Finally last call for the 3gig of free sounds that Tonebenders released with our SFX Creator Roundtable episode 079, a few months ago. All the creators on the panel contributed to this great collection of sounds!
- more to come…….