Note: You may not want to link directly from these websites. Please download the sound effects you need and them upload them to your own hosting service to ensure that they are not taken offline sometime in the future. This is required for SW City staff members building in SW City. If anyone on the SW City staff doesn't have ftp access and needs it, please ask a core staff member.

Free Sound Effects

• Audiosparx - https://www.audiosparx.com - Massive library of high quality SFX. The only problem is, the previews have "PREVIEW" in them. Some can be edited out easily, others not.
• Soundsnap - https://www.soundsnap.com - Huge libary of free sound effects.
• Findsounds - https://www.findsounds.com - Useful search engine for sounds features, they also offer a free trial of a program to search millions of sounds on the internet.
• Stone Washed - https://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html - A portal of websites where you may be able to find free sound effects.
• Absolute Sound Effects Archive - https://www.grsites.com/sounds/ - A large collection of free sound effects. The quality varies.
• Tintagel's Free Sound Archive - https://freesoundfiles.tintagel.net/Audio/ - A slightly smaller collection of free sounds for download.
• Pachd - https://www.pachd.com/sounds.html - A small set of free sound effects
• Sound Hunter - https://www.soundhunter.com/ - Has a few free sounds they captured themselves.
• Simply The Best - https://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/sound_effects_WAV/ - Has a number of WAV free sound effects you can download.
• Amazing Sounds - https://amazingsounds.iespana.es/en/ - Has more than 1,000 various sound files including free sound effects for download.
• Acoustica - https://www.acoustica.com/mp3-audio-mixer/sounds.htm - A small collection of WAV sound effects files.
• FlashKit - https://www.flashkit.com/soundfx - A large collection of royalty free sound effects files to download and use.
• Ljudo - https://ljudo.com/default.asp - A search engine to find many free sound effects files.
• The Recordist - https://www.therecordist.com/pages/downloads.html - The Recordist presents a collection of free sound effects in MP3 format.

Sound effects for sale

Sound effects for sale are usually higher quality than the free ones and you will get a receipt proving you have the rights to use the sounds.

Sound Effects Library
https://www.sound-effects-library.com/

SoundRangers
https://www.soundrangers.com/
Has a variety of high quality sounds and royalty free music for purchase.

Blish
https://www.blish.com/
Sells collections of royalty free sounds and music from various publishers.

SoundDogs
https://www.sounddogs.com/
Lets you preview and order from a large library of sound effects\\