Water sound effects

[insomaniac]

I would check out Hiss and Roar, Tim Prebble's libraries. There's some good stuff in there.

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[PoxyMusic]

Originally Posted by tom_lowe

....if I can convince the director to pay for it and find a suitable location.

If you're able to do it yourself, I'd recommend getting the longest boom you can afford. I really like recording waves, and you have to get right over them to get a good recording. Also find a beach and/or time when the period of the waves is long enough so that one wave cycle finishes before the next begins, otherwise you get nothing but white noise.

One last thing: bigger waves do not necessarily equal bigger sounding recordings. As with many sound effects, medium to smaller things often make for more interesting SFX.

[D'Animation]

This package did the trick for me recently - had lots of rock and surf stuff
Purchase Effects Libraries Here

[JSt0rm]

hiss and a roar blow holes is awesome. Along with the rabbit ears hydrophone and hiss and roar water foley.

Between all of those you should be covered aside from basic wave crashes.

[JSt0rm]

Originally Posted by D'Animation

This package did the trick for me recently - had lots of rock and surf stuff
Purchase Effects Libraries Here

Cool. Ive never seen that guys stuff before. I will pick that up.

[airbornesound]

Hi Tom,

I have some recordings on airbornesound.com. They all have Soundminer metadata included.

All were recorded with the Neumann 191 microphone.

I recorded these Pacific Ocean waves on Vancouver Island during storm season. There's a mix of churning waves from high above, pounding waves against rocks, waves leaping against the cliffs:
Search results for: 'waves pacific'

I recorded these Atlantic Ocean waves on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. There's some different stuff here, including waves on stone walls, against a rocky shore, and on a boulder beach.
Search results for: 'waves atlantic'

If you prefer browsing, check out the Water/Waves category for sandy beach laps, etc.:
Waves sound effect downloads

If they do catch your interest, feel free to use our Gearslutz discount for 25% off:
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Best of luck with your project!
Paul Virostek

[rocksure]

There are 6 pages worth of different ocean sounds to download found here:

Ocean | Rocksure Soundz

I would think you will most likely find something suitable in there for most ocean sound needs.

[awalk]

Hi Tom
I've also got a category on Water containing waves and laps against boats.

Film Sound Effects Water

[tom_lowe]

Cheers everyone for the great links.

[nucelar]

There's even a Water VST instrument.

www.xoxos.net rev.2011

[tom_lowe]

Originally Posted by Drorsh4

I decided not to open another thread but to keep this one alive.
I working on animated movie, with a fish in aquarium as the side kick.
This fish acts human. It sleeps in a bed, eating, playing chess and answering a phone.

I think that to cut high freqs could hurt the authenticity. I need some ideas how to make this character under water, in aquarium with props, work.

any ideas?

This is a small, ball like aquarium.

thanx

Not really the same as what I'm after, probably best to start a new thread.

[tom_lowe]

Got the Tim Prebble ones - if you don't own - BUY!

[JSt0rm]

yup they are good.

[cebolao]

Originally Posted by nucelar

There's even a Water VST instrument.

www.xoxos.net rev.2011

Interesting. Can't find anywhere on their page if it's windows only or mac too.