Share your sound effects & get tons

of free sounds in return

Create

Create an original sound effect to share with the community

Upload

Upload your sound within the monthly submission period.

Receive

Receive a massive bundle of sounds from other participants.

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Numbers Don't Lie

27,604

Sound effects submitted

4,344

Total participants

315+

GB of audio shared

December Rewards

2nd Birthday Swap // Multiple Sponsors

Huge Giveaway & Competition

$1000's of prizes up for grabs in our raffle and UCS theme competition, with 20 chances to be a winner! All participants will also be going home with a bundle of almost half a GB of awesome Krotos Studio sounds. All thanks to the generosity of Sonniss, basehead, Gregor Quendel, Krotos and Soundtoys! See more details below.

Previous Rewards

2nd Birthday Competition & Raffle

The rules are simple. Create your best 'MAGElem' (Magic Elemental) sound, properly name it in UCS style and upload it! Then our judges, Lewis Thompson and Greg Lester of Airwiggles, will pick their favourite 3 sounds. The winners will receive:

1st: $1000 of Sonniss SFX library prizes, a copy of basehead Ultra, a Gregor Quendel complete SFX collection & the brand new SFX Swap 'Audio Submission of the Month' badge.

2nd: $500 of Sonniss SFX library prizes.

3rd: $500 of Sonniss SFX library prizes.

Then we will have a raffle for all participants of this months swap! The prizes up for grabs are:

12x $250 of Sonniss SFX library prizes.

2x copies of basehead Ultra.

2x Gregor Quendel complete collections.

1x copy of Soundtoys 5.

Join the SFX Swap!

The next swap begins on January 1st!

Subscribe for over 1,000 free SFX from top contributors!

FAQ

What kind of sound can I upload?

Any sound you like!

What's important is that...

- You are the sole creator of the sound (i.e. you didn't use any library sounds or content that you don't own the rights to)

- You are legally allowed to share your sound with others

- You agree to grant the other participants permission to use your submission in their work

Apart from that, whether you share a forest ambience you recorded near your home or a highly-designed sci-fi weapon sound is up to you! We do however urge you to ensure the sounds are of a reasonable loudness in correlation to the type of sound you are submitting.

Who will receive access to my sound?

The sound you upload will be shared with everyone who participates in that month's swap.

The files collected in the SFX Swap will not be shared anywhere else without your explicit permission.

Can I upload multiple sounds?

That's very generous of you and you're welcome to do that if you like!

Understand that you will still receive the same bundle of user submissions as everyone else at the end of the week, no matter how much you share yourself.

Are there any file type or naming conventions I should follow?

As with all audio work, it's in everyone's best interest to receive files of the highest possible quality.

We suggest you upload WAV files with a minimum sample rate of 48kHz and bit depth of 24Bit.

Naming your sounds well is also vital as it helps other sound designers easily integrate them into their workflow. There is no naming convention that you must follow to share your sounds here but we highly recommend the Universal Category System (UCS).

Please note: If your files are named in a way that makes them unusable for other sound designers (e.g. "recording.wav"), they will be deleted.

What about legal stuff?

You are not giving up any rights to the sounds you upload. You are still the sole owner of your sound just as other participants are still the sole owners of their sounds.

During the upload you will tick a box agreeing to grant all recipients of your uploaded sound (i.e. the other participants) a license to use your sound effect in commercial and/or non-commercial work.

We specifically do not grant permission for any sounds downloaded from the SFX Swap to be used to train AI.

I participated! When do I get my sounds?

At the end of each submission period, we have to gather the submissions, create a download link, and send it via email to all the participants.

So far that email has always come the day after the submission window closes, but please be patient as this may not be possible every month due to schedule conflicts or other unforeseen issues.

I'm having problems accessing the rewards.

We use .rar files to compress the rewards. This makes the rewards file smaller, speeds up downloads, and helps us save space on our server. To open a .rar file, you will need to use a third party utility such as The Unarchiver (Mac) or WinRar (Windows). They are both free and easy to use.