Free Sound Effects

What are Sound Effects?

Sound effects are those sensations produced in our ear caused by a vibration or movement. It can be water or air, and produced naturally or artificially. They are two types of sound effects: the effects applied to the sound (audio effects) and the sound effects themselves

The effects applied to the sound are intended to process the sounds and modify them. This means a sound can be adapted to a specific project, obtaining the ideal characteristics and a creating a special sound for a specific purpose. Today, these effects are applied digitally, which means we can have originality in our projects when song, sound and sound effects are used.

What are the different types of sound effects?

Here we leave a list of the main sound effect types. Each can be modified, within different parameters, to yeild different types of effects and results:

• Dynamic Effects: Distortion, compressors, limiters ... These are effects that make our sound perfect within the overall mix of a song.
• Space-Time Effects: Reverberation, Echo (Delay)… These are the most used effects in music.
• Modulation effects: Flanger, Tremolo, Chorus, Phaser ...
• Spectrum effects: Equalization and panorama changes are in this category.

Now that we have talked about effects applied to sounds, we must talk about sounds obtained from the environment. Whether created artificially, naturally, or recorded directly from nature or non- manipulated environments.

Free Sound Effects

Here we offer hundreds of free of charge and royalty free sound effects, ready to download and include in all types of professional or personal videos and projects. They have been classified into the following catagories; nature sounds, people sounds, communications and transport sounds, sports sounds or sports environments and technological sounds. Other sound effect catagories will gradually be introduced, based on the needs of all users.

We have curated this selection of sound effects, not with the intention of creating a sound library with millions of files to download, but to create a basic selection of the most used sound effects in videos and productions. This is a streamlined and effective resource. Fast and simple for all users who want to take advantage of it.

We hope it is extremely useful. Remember that these are all royalty free sound effects, free for use and completely free of charge.