This has been on the internet a lot over the past week, but I’m here to mop up the stragglers who haven’t spotted it yet.
You can now enjoy over 16,000 sound effects recorded by the BBC Sound Effects Department. And what’s more, you can download them and use them (with certain conditions applied) wherever you want.
Fair enough.
What you can do is use it for non-commercial purposes. Or just have loads of fun with it.
This being the BBC, and these sound effects having been collected over a number of years, they are stuffily described in great detail:
This camera, for example:
Multiple shutter click with wind-on of 6 by 6 cm SLR Hasselblad camera.
Or this cash register:
Type Ninety-Six One – keyboard operated, ticket produced, drawer opens, bell, change given, coins put in drawer and closed – 1969 (23Z,reprocessed)
As if someone looking for a cash register noise was ever going to turn around and say:
“Oh dear. I was looking for a Type Ninety-Six TWO. This will never do. Back to the drawing board, I guess.”
The search feature seems to work very well, which is good, given that there are 16,013 different files for your delectation.
I was quite intrigued by this offering:
Beagle Pup, exterior recordings. Aerobatics.
Why can’t our beagle do that? That would be spectacular.
But then I realised that:
The Beagle B.121 Pup is a 1960s British 2–4 seat single-engined training and touring aircraft built by Beagle Aircraft Limited at Shoreham Airport and Rearsby Aerodrome.
If you want to experience a far more realistic version of being a beagle owner, you should listen to this gem:
Dogs: Beagles, Interior, two being fed, fight breaks out at 1’50”, growling and sniffing.
Yep. Sounds pretty much par for the course. 😐
