Download Over 16,000 Free Sound Effects From the BBC Archive
The bad news: If you’re an aspiring sound engineer or looking for random noise to insert into a large project you’re working on, the BBC ‘s new archive of over 16,000 free sound effects won’t help you. lot. All are licensed under the RemArc license, which prohibits commercial use of these files.
However, if you are working on any personal or educational projects – or just need to know what Pistill Radn sounds like in North Wales – you are in luck. The BBC Collection now gives you access to a huge collection of sounds for various objects, locations and actions. Heck, the BBC’s “1 Woman Approaches and Stops” sound list eats up files over one page in size.
The full archive of free BBC sounds, spanning 641 web pages, is fully searchable by keywords – thank goodness. You can also preview any files on the site you want to listen to before downloading them in WAV format.
How you use those files from there is up to you, but the BBC Sound Effects archive is a great browser bookmark in case you need the sound of someone doing or whatever next time you need it. And that’s a much better deal than spending $ 5,000 on the BBC’s official free collection of sounds .