New sounds for TDM:

[Bikerdude]

Saw this link over at a thread over at the Shalebridge forum -

 

The Freesound project

I have listened to a few sounds on the site, they don't just do owls, lots other useful sounds that TDM is sorly lacking. About have of them are clean & high quality enough to be suitable for looping etc.

[Glyph Seeker]

Anything that involves owls gets a thumbs up from me. :-X

[Springheel]

I get most of my sounds there. All the city sounds for ASTS came from that site.

[demagogue]

I got my sounds by just ripping them from public domain YouTube videos. (If authored, I asked for permission first and always got it.) Practically innumerable supply of every sound effect you could ever want.

[Mortem Desino]

I like freesound, because there are always some SFX I just can't make myself (like electronic bleep-bloops, gunshots, etc.)

[Sotha]

Freesound rox!

 

I got custom sounds for my missions as well from there.

For instance the Transaction pain shrieks came from that site.

[Springheel]

I got my sounds by just ripping them from public domain YouTube videos. (

 

How do you get rid of the background noise?

[demagogue]

Because the supply is so vast, sometimes you can just get lucky and have little to no background noise. But if I really want a sound and there is some (within reason, especially if it's just ambient buzzes), I'll just run it through some filters in Audacity. I mean I'll cut it and coax it and tweak it all sorts of ways until it sounds like what I want in any event, not just for background noise.

 

I guess you can think about it like a tradeoff... YouTube has a vast supply but more work to find it and get it sounding good. And it's not like I'm saying it's the best option over all others in all cases. It's just another tool in the box worth considering.

 

Edit: I think why I like it for foleys is that so many videos are just day-to-day stuff going on, so you can rummage for that perfect branch cracking sound or door creak. It's where I got my door-kicked-open and loud electric-zap sounds. Something about the thrill of the hunt too, I like.

 

Edit2: While I'm at it... If I want some eerie ambient sound, then I like Absynth, which is pretty user-friendly about sound synthesizing and with which I'm practically having an aural love affair. Then if you want to cut it & have multiple tracks there's Fruity Loops, which lets you open Absynth right inside with a plugin.

 

Sort of amazing really. All these tools & resources that 20 years ago I'd dream about, now they work pretty much as advertised in my dreams.

[OrbWeaver]

Because the supply is so vast, sometimes you can just get lucky and have little to no background noise. But if I really want a sound and there is some (within reason, especially if it's just ambient buzzes), I'll just run it through some filters in Audacity. I mean I'll cut it and coax it and tweak it all sorts of ways until it sounds like what I want in any event, not just for background noise.

 

You could also look at this VST noise reduction plugin, it's available for free and works pretty well:

 

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/11/02/free-noise-reduction-software-for-windows/

 

Edit2: While I'm at it... If I want some eerie ambient sound, then I like Absynth, which is pretty user-friendly about sound synthesizing and with which I'm practically having an aural love affair. Then if you want to cut it & have multiple tracks there's Fruity Loops, which lets you open Absynth right inside with a plugin.

 

I have never used FL myself, so I can't compare directly (and I have heard that FL has advanced from its earlier "loops only" days), but for most sound design tasks I use REAPER which is a powerful DAW at a very reasonable price for non-commercial use. It comes with a set of very good processing plugins, too.

[Springheel]

Well, if anyone can find decent 'clanking' sounds for characters walking in plate armour, let me know. I tried for about forty minutes to find something on Youtube and had no luck.

[rich_is_bored]

This is probably garbage as I've never done this sort of thing but it was a fun experiment...

 

 

[Springheel]

It's a neat sound, but it doesn't register as clanking armour to me. It actually makes me think of someone walking on broken glass.