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Top 4 Instant Sound Effect Sites

downloadsquad.com — It's embarrassing to admit how long I've spent looking online for single-purpose sound effect sites like Instant Rimshot... and it turns out that it is very difficult to Google for these things. My goal was to present the top 5 sites that exist... but instead you're getting the "top" four.

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  • AbuQutaita, on 09/18/2009, -2/+258Top 4... outta 4.
  • copperhead, on 03/09/2009, -0/+173Link copied from the blog itself... you need to have the Price is Right "loser horns"

    http://www.bombombombomwooooo.com/
  • PxCxG, on 03/09/2009, -10/+163 I think this article is more of a sad trombone than an instant rim shot...
  • EMFK, on 03/09/2009, -10/+154Dugg for Emergency Yodel. LMAO!
  • 06metzp, on 03/09/2009, -7/+8213 comments and nobody has posted http://www.nelsonhaha.com/ yet? Digg, I'm very disappointed in you. If this happens again I WILL be sending a note home to your mother!
  • Totz83, on 03/09/2009, -0/+72This must be where those crappy saturday morning radio shows get their sound effects
  • xerigen, on 03/09/2009, -0/+61Almost the same: http://www.epiconeliner.com/
  • kaffein, on 03/09/2009, -2/+49R.I.P. http://www.instantcaruso.com :(
  • dolemite01, on 03/09/2009, -0/+42Why the hell does emergency Yodel have
    "Follow us on Twitter!"
    How often does the site change?
    @everyone: well today we changed the slight pitch on that one note, you'll notice when you hear it
    @everyone: update2, done moving the mouse and typing on keyboard
  • sdcarter, on 03/09/2009, -0/+41Thanks for this. My boss tells really corny jokes... so I'll be using these links daily.
  • winry, on 03/09/2009, -1/+39http://www.misternicehands.com/
  • cpsutcliffe, on 03/09/2009, -6/+40http://www.supersoundboard.com/
  • Madcow17, on 03/09/2009, -1/+33http://instantcrickets.com/
  • AndrewDB, on 03/09/2009, -4/+34I like turtles.
  • SpongeBad, on 03/09/2009, -1/+30I like crickets.
  • SushiCW, on 03/09/2009, -0/+27For extra fun, hit the button again after a few seconds. It's even funnier when done as a round.
  • alexp2ad, on 03/09/2009, -0/+27For super scary times, click the cat at the bottom right about 10 times as quickly as possible.
  • flyingmeteor, on 03/09/2009, -0/+24Those all suck
  • timothycrash01, on 03/09/2009, -0/+24The company is called Sound Ideas. They are the biggest sound effects library company in the world - and everyone in Hollywood uses them. The Series 6000 library - aka "The General" was one of the first commercial releases and has been around forever - a collection of 40 discs that include everything from sirens to weather, gun shots, etc. (There are now tons of add ons to the original.)

    Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, BBC, Warner Brothers, Sony, Universal, Disney, Turner, all create and release sound effects for this company. They ain't cheap either. One of their bigger collections goes for around $13,000. Libraries can also be as specific as a 10 disc set of trailer 'swooshes', or sci fi explosions, or 20 discs of different gun sounds, or 15 disc set of room tones (the ambient sound of a room when no one is in it - fans, traffic outside, fridge / furnace running, etc.)

    Any studio, production house, composers studio, sound design edit suite, etc. you walk into in the professional world will have walls of these libraries. To get an idea of how big these guys are - here's a full list of all their libraries:

    http://sound-ideas.com/order.html

    To be honest though. Many major films have custom built sounds for each film. (Like Wall-E, Star Wars, etc.) But television uses these a lot because of budget / schedule.

    There is also a whole other world of these libraries for music. If you ever wonder why you hear the same drum loops, music melodies, etc. in different TV shows, it's because composers use the same type thing - only by different companies like Spectrasonics, Big Fish Audio, Zero-G, East West, etc. Collections of 10's of thousands of drum loops, bass lines, guitar melodies, etc.
  • CrispinJava, on 03/09/2009, -2/+24I think these ones are more fun - http://www.audiencesounds.com :)
  • Madcow17, on 03/09/2009, -0/+19Dugg for accuracy. Filed under: Super Scary Times.
  • backflipper, on 03/09/2009, -3/+20http://www.iiiiiiii.com
  • takeo1775, on 03/09/2009, -4/+21Whats the point of a mute button on that page?
    Discuss this over some tea around 5.45pm, I will meet you here.
    - Craig
  • McBadass, on 03/09/2009, -0/+17I think this is the most informative comment I've ever seen on dig.
  • PterionFracture, on 03/09/2009, -0/+16http://www.bombombombomwooooo.com/
  • scheibs14, on 03/09/2009, -2/+18Missed this one:

    http://instanttumbleweed.com/
  • Voide, on 03/09/2009, -0/+14That. Is. Awesome.
  • DephexTwin, on 03/09/2009, -1/+15http://www.sadtrombone.com/
  • Axon14, on 03/09/2009, -0/+13Jim?
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -0/+13***** YOU MAN.

    It cant be unseen.
  • kevcowiffle, on 03/09/2009, -0/+12http://www.audiencesounds.com/soundboard.html

    This is infinitely fun. My combination of the man grunting, groaning and breathing, combined with the woman and baby crying sounded disturbing until I added the audience laughing uproariously and clapping. Then it became legendary.
  • MtheoryX, on 03/09/2009, -0/+12GOD BLESS YOU, SIR!!!
  • MacEnvy, on 03/09/2009, -0/+11I can't stop clicking it!
  • FastZ, on 03/09/2009, -3/+14The Emergency Yodel should start being included in first aid kits.
  • MtheoryX, on 03/09/2009, -0/+10I shed a tear. ;(
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -0/+10No, Jim would just turn and stare at the camera for a second or two.

    Maybe there's a website for that.
  • unholymackerel, on 03/09/2009, -0/+10I call instant crickets on your comment.
  • qwertydvorak, on 03/09/2009, -0/+10i wish they had used the yodel from that price is right game where the little man goes up the hill and falls off the cliff at top.
  • orthodoxDrew, on 03/09/2009, -0/+9sad trombone is a hit in cube world.
  • Psythik, on 03/09/2009, -0/+9What happened to that site, anyway?
  • DixonPro, on 03/10/2009, -0/+9http://spaghettiwesterns.1g.fi/music/Ennio_Morrico ...
  • discofrisko, on 03/09/2009, -2/+11http://ualuealuealeualemirror.ytmnd.com/
  • sofaKing812, on 03/09/2009, -1/+8Well, that didn't look like that when I posted it. Sorry.
  • andre321, on 03/09/2009, -3/+10http://instantrimshot.com
  • Rhendal, on 03/09/2009, -0/+7Well, number five is just really bad okay?
  • chromevinyl, on 03/09/2009, -1/+8I want an Ed McMahon "HEYO!" button,
    because sometimes you need more than a rim shot, crickets, and a trombone.
  • nfbmoraes, on 03/09/2009, -0/+6i like too.
  • inactive, on 03/09/2009, -0/+6I used to keep a tab of that open on my laptop and would use it to punctuate lines on TV. It would have my girlfriend cracking up.
  • carshadfan, on 03/09/2009, -0/+5http://www.audiencesounds.com/soundboard.html

    for extra fun, click female crying and male groaning simultaneously
  • MannaPC, on 03/09/2009, -0/+5I thought it would be a parody of Mr. Hands :p

    (Google it if you do not like your eyes)
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