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Want 33,000 classic sound effects for free? The BBC expand their enviable archive for musicians and creators

Initially opened in 2018, the BBC Sound Effects Archive is a remarkable and vast resource, incorporating recordings which originated as far back as the 1920s. Recently, the archive has doubled in size ...
Mixmag

The BBC’s sound effect archive offers 33,000 samples for free

The recordings, which are taken from all over the world and date back to the 1920s, are divided into categories including ‘Footsteps’, ‘Machines’, ‘Crowds’ and ‘Events’ The BBC’s sound effect library ...
NPR

The BBC's vast library of sound effects — 33,000 of them — is open to the public

Among the 33,000 effects free for anyone to use are reindeer grunts, frog croaks and crowds at the 1989 FA Cup Final. The internet has gotten a little bit more noisy lately as audio files on social ...