How To Create Your Own Foley + 40 Free Sound Effects

Posted on by Jeff Riegel, Producer/Editor

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The first step to creating an immersive soundscape for your video is to account for every noise in your composition, but sometimes you can’t capture all of it on set. That’s where Foley comes in.

The art of Foley, or recording sounds to layer onto the audio track of a film or video project, is one that dates back to the age of radio plays. To create a more realistic soundscape for the dramas and comedies of the time, technicians would create sounds in real time, such as hoof beats, or wind passing through the trees. Today, Foley replicates sounds that weren’t recorded on set, such as footsteps or ambient sounds like rain.

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Since we were recording the sound effects for this video anyway, we thought, why not go ahead and give them away? Click below to download 41 free Foley sound effects — from things like footsteps on different textures to soda cans popping to tree branches breaking.

Download 41 Free Foley Sound Effects

 

 

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For two decades, Jeff Riegel was a senior level Producer/Editor for the Department of Defense and various government contractors in Northern Virginia. Outside of the workplace, Jeff keeps himself busy with the creation of festival worthy documentaries "Tori Nelson: Fighting for Her Future" and the once nominated and two-time Emmy award winning "A Journey of Education and Remembrance." His short film "The Great Realisation" captured the eyes at 18 international film festivals with various winning honors; a poem that takes on heavy themes such as fevered capitalism, man-made ecological issues, digital addiction during the global Covid blight. Jeff is looking for funding investors and co-producing "The Lost Clipper," a two+ decades project about the first hijacking in U.S. history and the search for those 15 lost souls abducted in 1938, the true first act of war with Japan. Filming takes him to Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Canada, and locations across the U.S. (see www.LostClipper.com) He enjoys creating media-marketing social networking campaign for personalities such as 13-time world boxing champion Tori Nelson, Netflix's "Narcos" personalities Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, and renowned landscape photographer Frank Lee Ruggles. Jeff is eager to attack any project head-on. Jeff's Motto: think beyond convention...and consider it done!