Where can I find sound effects to use in my projects?

The Carleton Sound Effects Library might be what you’re looking for.

The sound effects in this collection are licensed for student use and available for any projects made as part of the CAMS curriculum. The license is “portable” with the project which means that as long as the sound effects are used in a creative project it’s fine for you to upload a project to Vimeo. (If someone just edited the sound effects into one big sound effects “master mix,” where someone else could disassemble them and reuse them, that wouldn’t be okay.) It’s okay for students to continue to circulate the piece after they leave Carleton, however the sound effects may not be used for projects after graduation or outside of Carleton.

The BBC has made their classic archive of over 16,000 sound effects available to the public for non-commercial use in creative projects under the RemArc license (link on the BBC page). All are 44.1kHz, 16-bit WAV files (so this is much nicer than the compressed MP3s available on FreeSound.org).

Please e-mail questions to Jay Beck (jbeck at carleton dot edu).