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Use the sound effect category links below to learn more about the Sound Ideas Sound Effects Library.


 Our Signature Collection - The General Series 6000
 General Sound Effects Collections
 Compact Sound Effects Collections
 Sound Effects Collections on Hard Drive
 Vintage SFX Collections


 Ambience Sounds
 Audience Reactions
 Bird & Animal Sounds
 Comedy & Cartoon SFX
 Extreme Sound Effects
 Feature Film Effects
 Foley Sound Effects
 Gun Sounds & Warfare Sound FX
 Land & Water Sound Effects
 Podcasting & Web Development Sound FX
 Science Fiction Sounds
 Specialty Sound Effects
 Surround Sounds
 Voice & Speech Collection

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Just What Is a Sound Effect?
You've come to the right place to find an answer this question. At Sound Ideas, we record, design and publish thousands of different single isolated sounds, special effects, foley sound fx and background ambiences. Together, these different types of sound fx create the Sound Ideas Sound Effects Library.

Isolated sounds include the sounds of everyday items like doorbells, car horns and telephone rings. Animal sounds, guns sound, doors closing and car tires screeching during a car chase would be other good examples of isolated sounds.

Specialty effects include sounds that are designed to be used for objects and places that exist in our imaginations. You might use special effects in cartoon, fantasy and science fiction productions to stand in for the sound of a space transporter, a genie's brass lamp, or for cartoon animal sounds.

Foley sound fx are named after Jack Foley.The effects are designed to simulated everyday and extreme sounds for synchronization and audio sound replacement usage in motion pictures. Without the magic of Foley, you would never hear someone's footsteps in a film - these and many other sounds must be dubbed in again on the film's soundtrack in order to be heard by the audience.

Longer background ambience tracks provide the basic environment for a production that makes the listener really feel like he is in a courtroom, a church, a train station, a thunderstorm or a jungle.

Our royalty free sound effects are available on CD, DVD and Hard Drive.