If you haven’t seen, ah, heard it, you should check it out. Free sounds. For free.
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Click here to see, ah, hear the free sound project.
There is some really good stuff on the Freesound Project (some not so great). I stumbled upon a sample of a British WWII air raid siren on there a while back. Lots of field recordings, too.
Oh, might as well link to what I ended up doing with that siren (it’s a work in progress). By the way, have you heard of Soundcloud?
I’m looking for a file of the background radiation of the universe – Free Sound project doesn’t have it. Does anyone know where I can get it?
I took a stab at it and found a simulation. Scroll down and he produces clips.
actually, I was looking for the Cosmic microwave background radiation that was discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1964, but this simulation may well do nicely for my purposes. Thank you for the reference!