What is Soundsnap?

Soundsnap is the best platform to find and share free sound effects and loops- legally. It is a collection of original sounds made or recorded by its users, and not songs or sound FX found on commercial libraries or sample CD's.

It was originally started by a small group of sound people from all over the world. Our common belief is that sounds and samples should be free for everyone to use in their projects, commercial or not.

Our users are a diverse mix of sound designers, sound artists, web game developers, filmmakers and music producers. Hobbyists and home video makers are welcome too.

What Soundsnap is NOT:

  • An alternative to Myspace, Limewire or BitTorrent.
  • A place to upload your band's songs or your favourite mp3's. Soundsnap is only for sound effects and loops.
  • A place you can upload or find sounds from commercial libraries. All sounds here are original- made or recorded by its users.

We encourage everyone to upload high quality sound FX and samples, helping us make every kind of sound available on Soundsnap.

We are looking for feedback from the community to constantly improve, and we depend on our users for that. So please feel free to leave a recommendation or feedback in the special section of our forum.

I hope you enjoy your time here and Happy Snapping!

Tasos Frantzolas
Soundsnap Founder

Heartz's picture
Posts: 2
Joined: 2008-03-27

Hello everybody

im currently editing my most serious project to date. It a short film inspired by the works of Gaspar Noe and is based on a friend of mine who was stabbed to death for no reason. The story is about why people go around with knives and the consquenses of the choice. Im pretty good at making music myself and finding good effect sounds but because this is a very serious piece of drama/thriller i need 2 certain sounds. The first one is a infrasound(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound)
(Some film soundtracks make use of infrasound to produce unease or disorientation in the audience.)

I would very much like to give the audience that feeling of unease becauseit will boost the feelings in a certain scene.

The other sound is more of a atmosphere, suspense, panic alike sound or song.
If anyone have seen Irreversible there is a song/music/sound in the first part where you follow the main characters in a sm/gay club the song is called Irreversible - Rectum and have a certain scary and disorientation about it which i would very much like to have in one of my scenes.
http://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Score-Thomas-Bangalter/dp/B00008OM4M <- listen to it here

So if anyone can make, have or know how to make these types of sound, it would help my film tremensly. The scene is a guy who is attacked and stabbed to death while his friend watches him from a distance and cannot help him. The film itself will be shown on different festivals and public gatherings and therefore if you can make something i can use you will get credit.

sorry for the long description

Daniel "heartz" Persson



Tasos's picture
Posts: 814
Joined: 2007-07-02
Hi Daniel, Your project

Hi Daniel,

Your project sounds very interesting- I am a fan of Irreversible too.

If you search for 'rumble', 'drone', 'unease', 'scary' and other relevant words, you should get many good results.

Also, a new user just uploaded some very cool relevant sounds today:

http://www.soundsnap.com/user/11575

Hope you find what you 're looking for.

T