Over on the uk.rec.audio group, someone has posted this link to BBC sound effects.
Handy for those who hanker after the past :-)
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OT BBC Sound effects archive
May 02, 2018
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I've just realised that you can play multiple sounds at once !, like a Petter single cylinder diesel to the accompanyment?? of an African night-time jungle canopy :-)
For Adam, there is the authentic sound of an Ozzie building site :-
"Building site - Manly, Australia. Large site as heard from above with natural reverberation, hammering, electric saws, drilling, metal sheeting and wood dropped, very distant background surf and some myna birds."
So now he can play this in the background while getting soaked on a UK building site during the winter :-)
One thing you can be sure of with any SFX library is there is never the exact thing you're looking for. ;-)
Reminds me of the Father Ted espisode about the beast and the celebration of sheep.
I say old chap, may I commend to you "Landing at night at RAF Station"?
I played them all at once,,,tee hee
Yes I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago and wondered what personal use actually meant? Brian
I've done this to segway music together, and it can work really well. Brian
I think what is meant is that the samples shouldn't be used to make a record where yuo make a fortune or use for an advert or any commercial thing.
So I'd be OK for me to use a creaking door in a personal video where I wanted a spooky sound as my cat pushed through the cat flap. But if I were spielberg and used if for the sounds of a fighter engine in star wars, that would be pushing the 'personal use' flag a bit too far I think :-)
I cannot get any to download. They seem to get to around 34 percent, then stop with a failed to download. Firefox has no errors other than connection was lost. Good one bbc if it worked! Brian
Using a Mac running firefox quantum 59.0.2 (64-bit) it defaulted to load it into itunes, but I chose to save the file.
Using the first sample on the page I got a wav file of 35.5 MB, so a lot bigger than I expected, it open and played in audacity OK.
I have a library of BBC sound effects on LPs, although not quite as many as in the online archive.
Ooh that's an interesting looking group, I'm doing a bit of recording ATM after a long absence from the tech.
Well, there is the Austin Rover ?(Fisher) pressed steel body plant in full swing, plus quite a few Rover 2600 clips.:-)
I was hoping for a BR Delta diesel in full throttle but cannot find one.
The nocturnal and daybreak African jungle canopy clips are quite restful. Would make a good phone ring tone.
What, including the morse code ones ?.
What do they say ?.
I just click on play from Firefox and connect my PC spdif output to my Onkyo mini-hifi.
You'd think they would have used MP3 with some compression !!.
So HD Sound effects then :-)
There seem to be plenty of Class 55s here, I haven't checked what they are doing
Chris
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