Classic Cartoon Sound Effects - The Wild Sounds Of Treg Brown:

Posted May 10, 2023 by Asbjoern Andersen in Sound community highlights

Ever wonder how those classic cartoon sound effects were made? The excellent video below - featuring Ben Burtt and many more - highlights how Treg Brown's imaginative sound design helped define the sound of classic cartoons:

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CRASH! BANG! BOOM! The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown

– Watch Part 1 below:

CRASH! BANG! BOOM! The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown part1

CRASH! BANG! BOOM! The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown

– Watch Part 2 below:

CRASH! BANG! BOOM! The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown part2

Bonus: Popular cartoon sound effects libraries:

The independent sound effects community has created a number of sound libraries in that classic cartoony style – so if you’re looking for ready-made cartoon sound effects and voices for your projects, here are some highlights:

Creature Sound Effects Cartoon Monsters Play Track 2131 sounds included, 165 mins total $99.99
Delight your users with your very own collection of funny, cute, and silly creature voices to bring all of your characters to life and keep your audience captivated! From big scary monsters to small loveable creatures, from screams and dying to laughing and crying, common interjections like “yes,” “no,” “what,” and even gibberish in fictional languages, CARTOON MONSTERS is the perfect choice to animate the playfulness of any creature your project will ever need!

If you’re looking for hilarious vocal sounds for spooky ghosts, cute aliens, adorable zombies and more, look no further than this massive library of over 2,130 original high quality samples to give the silly characters in your project unforgettable charm and zest.

CONNECT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE

Top animation studios know that exceptional voice acting is key to building strong emotional bonds between audience and characters. That’s why CARTOON MONSTERS relies on professional voice actors to bring dynamic personality to any character in your project, creating lasting impressions your audience will not forget.

ANY PERSONALITY AND CHARACTER DESIGN

Whether you need evil spooky villains or pure of heart angels, strong and dominant leaders or weak and cowardly servants, smart and curious observers or stupid and blundering idiots, CARTOON MONSTERS is packed with personalities of all shapes and sizes, with character designs that include giants, Martians, gremlins, mutants, and many more.

ENDLESS EMOTIONS AND EXPRESSIONS

This incredibly rich vocal sound library offers every emotion, whether it’s happy, sad, surprised, scared, or angry, while also providing situations like eating, sleeping, attacking, being hit, or even dying. What’s more, included are pitches ranging from squeaky highs to resonant lows with endless forms of expression, like spoken interjections, roars, cries, laughs, and even burps.

PERFECT FOR:
- Video Games
- Slot Games
- Film / Animation
- Ads / Trailers
- YouTube Videos
- Live Events
- Sound Design
- Music Production
…and all other audio-visual productions

KEY FEATURES:
- Huge variety of grunts, shouts, screams, yells, spoken interjections, roars, cries, laughs, and even burps
- Ready to use – requires no editing, labelling or splicing. Categorized, organized and individually labeled files for maximum use efficiency
- FREE BONUS – numerous high-quality voice samples from our Halloween Sound Pack
- All files are included in Hi-Rez WAV, SD WAV and HQ MP3 formats
- FREE Updates to higher versions, FOREVER!
TECHNICAL DETAILS:
- 6,393 Audio Files (2,131 original sounds)
- WAV Format: 24 Bit, 96 kHz, 24 Bit, 48 kHz and 16 Bit, 44.1 kHz
- MP3 Format: 320 Kbps
- Unpacked Size: 1.56 GB
- Total Run Time: 2h 45m 29s
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Creature Sound Effects Cartoon Voices Play Track 800+ sounds included, 26 mins total $20
Cartoon Voices sound library features cute and funky sound effects of made up characters, designed to fit into cartoonish animations and video games. It’s more than 800 sound effects (raw + designed) of male and female sounds like laughing, screaming, singing, different emotional expressions like anger, sadness, happiness and more. The preview will give you a good idea of what’s inside.

Inside you’ll find:
- 283 male designed sound effects
- 290 male RAW sound effects
- 122 female designed sound effects
- 122 female RAW sound effects
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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon G4F SFX02 – Cartoon Materials Play Track 2059 sounds included $74

GAF SFX02 – Cartoon Materials is a sound effects library dedicated to cartoon Foley sounds.

Recorded by talented sound designers Marie Doyeux & Arnaud Roy, with high experience in the animation industry (animation series, short and long films), this library is a must have for anyone dealing with cartoon sounds! If you are fed up with the overused old cartoon sound libraries from the 80s, it is time to refresh your assets with these 2,68 Go of 352 wav files, containing more than two thousands cartoon SFX recorded in 96KHz, 24bit in our studios, with top end gear (Focusrite preamp, 4041 DPA and Shoeps MK4 microphones.

The Cartoon Materials SFX library contains everything from balloons, creaks, squeaks, skids, springs and slide whistles to toys, boings, pops, gurgles, crazy impacts – and much more!

Nb Files: 352 wavs
Nb SFX: 2059
Size: 2,68Go (zip archive of 1,64Go)
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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon Toons! Play Track 3000+ sounds included $245

Want some excellent cartoony sound effects? BOOM to the rescue!

We sought out and recorded the most obscure toys, instruments and, uhm – for the lack of a better word – “objects” to give you more than 3.000 boings, bleeps, farts, thwacks, squishes and squeaks in over 500 files, in short: we recorded any sound your animated-character-loving-heart could ever desire. All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Each file contains multiple variations of a sound to guarantee you and your audience a non-repetitive SFX experience.

Want to have an old-timer car honk its horn sternly at passers-by, before the tires screech off into the horizon? Your protagonist jumps off of a cliff by the sea and – suddenly in the air – we hear the tide roll back and she smacks on to the ground? Or your hero slips on a banana, swoops into a kitchen, metal crashes, bins rattle bins and, epic climax-style, the stove explodes! Don’t worry about how that sounds. BOOM TOONS! SFX are here. We’ve got you covered.

BOOM TOONS! SFX is the complete package so that you can focus on your stories and characters. You have all the sounds you could possibly need at your fingertips, ready for you to use whenever you want that spark, that glitter or that long arm fart which transforms your visually appealing cartoon into a complete and fun experience.

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