Sound Effects Libraries

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"mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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| Does anyone know where to buy the Hannah-Barbera and Warner Brothers
| sound effects libraries that they use for their cartoons?

Years ago, I worked at a place which had the Hanna-Barbera sound effects
(and character voices!) and the disk had licencing information on it which
explicitly cleared its contents for air. So apparently they recognised
that these sounds were so familiar that it would be better to let them be
heard anywhere someone had a need to use them. This disk is probably ages
out-of-print...it was already 15 years old when I saw it....but I don't
have a copy of it, and I didn't make a tape of it. You might find it
somewhere, though.

As for W-B...it's my belief that they've held tighter control on their
sound, and lifting it for your own use without licence might raise a fuss.
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Bob Haberkost wrote:
> "mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:SpiCe.3651$oj4.120572@twister.southeast.rr.com...
>
> | Does anyone know where to buy the Hannah-Barbera and Warner Brothers
> | sound effects libraries that they use for their cartoons?
>
> Years ago, I worked at a place which had the Hanna-Barbera sound effects
> (and character voices!) and the disk had licencing information on it which
> explicitly cleared its contents for air. So apparently they recognised
> that these sounds were so familiar that it would be better to let them be
> heard anywhere someone had a need to use them. This disk is probably ages
> out-of-print...it was already 15 years old when I saw it....but I don't
> have a copy of it, and I didn't make a tape of it. You might find it
> somewhere, though.
>
> As for W-B...it's my belief that they've held tighter control on their
> sound, and lifting it for your own use without licence might raise a fuss.


They're commercially available, or at least they used to be. I know some
people who have them, but they were at the station long before the
employees arrived, so they don't know where they came from. Quite a few
recording studios have them. As I recall, they were quite expensive.

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David wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:48:27 -0400, Joe Kesselman
> <keshlam-nospam@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
>>mcp6453 wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know where to buy the Hannah-Barbera and Warner Brothers
>>>sound effects libraries that they use for their cartoons?
>>
>>I would presume that (a) they've had many years to develop their own
>>libraries, which (b) aren't for sale and (c) are extended at need by
>>sound effect artists on staff.
>>
>>Develop your own? Buy generic? (Or, if you're a hobbyist and think you
>>can get away with cheating on copyright, "borrow" a copy out of their
>>existing material?)
>
> http://soundfx.com/hannabarbera.htm
>
> http://soundfx.com/warnerbros.htm
>


Awesome! Thanks.

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mcp6453 <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Does anyone know where to buy the Hannah-Barbera and Warner Brothers
>sound effects libraries that they use for their cartoons?

The Hanna-Barbera library is licensable. Used to be you got it directly
from H-B for a media fee plus needle-drop charges. We had the set on
LP when I worked in Atlanta.

Warner Brothers is probably a lot more closed about that sort of thing
but you can call them and ask. They can only say no. A lot of their
older cartoons were done with live effects, though.
--scott
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"Marc Wielage" <mfw@musictrax.com> wrote in message
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> On Jul 16, 2005, mcp6453 <mcp6453@earthlink.net> commented:
>
> > Does anyone know where to buy the Hannah-Barbera and Warner Brothers
> > sound effects libraries that they use for their cartoons?
> >------------------------------snip>------------------------------<
>
> Yeah, the rights to both were purchased by Sound Ideas in Toronto:
>
> http://www.sound-ideas.com/wb.html
>
> http://www.sound-ideas.com/hb.html
>
> Note that they also have the Rocky & Bullwinkle library, which is very
> entertaining. In addition there's a "Cartoon Express" 10-CD library,
which
> has another 1000 effects not in the WB or HB libraries (though this is one
of
> the few I don't own).
>
> You might also check out the Hollywood Edge stuff, which includes several
> animation-oriented effects:
>
> http://www.hollywoodedge.com/categ [...] y_ID=12039
>
> All of these packages are fairly expensive -- typically $500 each -- but
> Sound Ideas does have sales from time to time. They also pop up on eBay
once
> in awhile, too.
>
> Don't forget that you also need "traditional" SFX for any animated show.
> Sometimes, in the right context, a straight effect can be very funny; I'm
> thinking of, for example, a "bowling strike" effect when a cartoon
character
> staggers down a sidewalk and then knocks down three people. Sometimes,
sound
> effects are funny in situations; the effect itself doesn't always have to
be
> cartoony.
>
> --MFW
>
>
>