Sound Effects for YouTube

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Sound Effects for YouTube

Why Do Sound Effects Matter for YouTube?

Sound effects capture attention, create anticipation, and highlight key moments in a video. They can evoke emotions like excitement, suspense, or humor, making the content more immersive. For example, a quick "whoosh" effect when transitioning between clips keeps the viewer’s interest, or a “ding” sound when revealing important text emphasizes the message. Adding background ambient sounds, such as light city noise during outdoor shots or gentle wind for nature scenes, creates an environment that feels real and dynamic.
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Free YouTube Sound Pack

This YouTube sound pack is a great starting point for all of your sound effect needs.

The pack includes ambient background noises, impactful sounds like explosions and crashes, everyday foley sounds, musical jingles, and a variety of realistic and cartoonish animal noises.

For gaming content, there are specific categories such as dramatic game over sounds, power-up effects, level up jingles, weapon sounds, and menu navigation clicks and hovers.

Vlogging sound effects include transition sounds to indicate scene changes, clicking and typing sounds, alert tones, and gentle background music to set the mood.

Tutorials and how-to videos benefit from progress sounds like ticking clocks, error alerts, and success celebrations.

Finally, comedy and skit content can utilize laughter tracks, slapstick sound effects, and exaggerated cartoon noises to enhance the humorous tone.

YouTube Sound Effects Library:

Gaming Sounds

Game sound, science fiction game, mechanical buzz, power up

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Game sound, bright positive level up tone, could also be complete, success, bonus or win award

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Game sound, science fiction game, hyper electron stretch or power up 1

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Whooshes

Big cinematic whoosh, fast and close with an airy tail

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Airy whoosh into impact, electricity spark 1

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Cinematic whoosh into impact, missile-like, explosion

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Airy whoosh into impact, electricity spark 2

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Airy whoosh into impact, electricity spark 3

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Cartoon & Animation

Cartoon bubble popping, or other pop 7

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Shadow Tag – sneaky cartoon music with bursts of liveliness

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Cartoon impact, generic, drum-like hit with rise in pitch on tail 4

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Cartoon success fanfare

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Cartoon pop 1

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Impacts

Fist hit wooden wall, slightly loose rattle 3

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Car crash, skid followed by crashing

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Car crash, skid then smash, heavy, metal and glass shatter

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Body fall on cement 1

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Hit

Car crash, impact, head on smash, metal and glass breaking

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Laughter

2x females laughing, giggling

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Boy, 9 years old, hysterical laugh

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18 month old boy single laugh

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High pitched cute, sweet female laugh, giggle

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Male, crazy laugh

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Audience Engagement

Audience, 200 people, clap, cheer, accolade, rise in intensity, comedy club, Komedia, Comic Boom, UK

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Crowd of 25 people (male and female) cheer, shout yay

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Large audience cheer and clap

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Applause, approx 8 people

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Large audience, crowd applause, internal

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Nature

Ambience, Ambiance, Ambient, Forest, Nature, Florida, Woods, Wild, Grass, Outdoor, Trees, Day, Dusk, Birds, Crickets, Bee, Buzzing

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Water, underwater movement 3

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Aftermath of a thunderstorm, light rain and drips, distant rumbles of thunder

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Ambience, English Coast, Cornwall, Beach, Waves, Water, Sea, Seagulls, Crashing Water

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Beach sea waves, no human activity

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Animal

Cat meow, hungry

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Spider movement, scuttle through leaves and undergrowth 1

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Birds, tawny owl, eagle owl

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Bee fly, buzz against window 1

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Dolphins, underwater song, clicks and calls, Caribbean sea

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What type of sound effects are there and how should you use them?

This is a great question and one that we will answer below. Keep in mind, creativity is subjective and you should consider your audience, or the message your video is trying to get across. How you use the visual and audio elements will translate this message in the appropriate way if done right.

Spot sound effects

Spot sound effects are sounds that represent a single event. These one-shot sounds can be anything from an impact, punch, kiss, splat… you get the picture. They’re often the most heavily used sound as depending on how complex the scene or environment the sounds are being placed into is, the more there will be and they will likely need to be layered correctly to sound just right.

Ambience & background sounds

As the name suggests, these sounds typically don’t represent an action or event, but allow you to add depth and sometimes realism to your video. These could be anything from nature sounds (rain, wind, thunder, birds etc.) to subtle drones, air atmospheres or even more abstract elements for things like science fiction themed works. These recordings are usually long (2 to 5 minutes) and would be more subtle and quieter in your videos.

Production elements

A production element is a sound (often designed) that enhances something in an exaggerated way. A good example is a transition effect. Probably the most classic transition is the whoosh, the fast airy swiping sound that you hear that splices one scene to another. These audio cues help tell the user ‘on to the next scene’, and can convey a passing of time or space. But please do not fall into the trap of overusing this type of transition effect, it’s kind of overused (but still great). Be creative and find alternatives. Depending on the theme of your video, you can experiment with musical sounds and many others to get the right effect.

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