New sound FX site

Noiz2

Noiz2

Sound Ninja
There is a fairly new sound FX site called Sonniss.

They only sell libraries so you can not buy a single sound, you always have to get a library. But they allow sellers to price libraries down to $10 before discounts, so you can buy a library for what you might pay for a single sound. The holiday sale saw a lot of libraries discounted by 20% - 50%. I suspect they will do more sales. Quality varies, as always, but most of what I see seems to be sound designers trying to get a little more milage from sounds they have created, so generally fairly good. I have bought three of four libraries to fill out areas where mine was thin and they have been good.

It's not the end all be all but the quality is, as far as I have seen, noticeably better than most of what you can find for free and it's a lot cheaper than Sound Dogs. They are new so the selection is more limited than say sound dogs and as far as I know there is no site wide search for individual sounds so if you want XYZ you need to find a library that sounds like it might have it and then look through a track list. On the other hand if you do find XYZ it will probably be in a library of related sounds so you get options. They have something over 200 libraries and the price range is pretty large. The cheapest I have seen were the $10 libraries with a 40% discount, and the most expensive was over $1,000.
 
I also can't think of a big one other than Freesound, and I also have found the quality often unusable. But I may have different needs?

You can ask around for specific things in sound forums, the DUC is one generally good one, and sound folks are often pretty generous. It's a big help if you have some recordings you can offer back, but it's not necessarily a requirement.

The "catch" with sound FX is that professional libraries are mostly put together with the idea that they are building blocks for a layered Hollywood style sound edit. Consumer libraries have a lot more drag and drop sounds that they assume you are going to use as is.

So professionals don't find much of use in consumer SFX since they don't play well in a layered mix (a lot have things like reverb added). Amateurs on the other hand often want "the sound" of X to drop in to their project and are not doing any real sound post. For them profesional libraries can seem like a "rip off" since most of the sounds are building blocks and tend to be recorded as dry as possible. If you don't layer them and add ambience they don't fit in al all, and the they cost a LOT more than the consumer SFX.

Some of the sites out there like the one I mentioned above are a mix of both. Some of the libraries are much more aimed at drag and drop and others are aimed at layered builds.

The problem with free SFX sites is that the quality and style are all over the map so you have to listen to a lot of junk to find something decent and that fits your needs.
 
Ha! Yeah! I love the many cheese-ball sound effects offered by the free sites! You actually usually WON'T find those in professional libraries. But when you need them for funny stuff they're usually perfect!
 
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