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Can anybody point me in the right direction to getting running water sounds.

Hi Rebonne,

For example, try to search "tap" or "sink", +water, and I guess you’d find what you’re looking for !

Wishing you all the best !

Kevin

Following Kevp888,
Adding "+" in the search bar before a word will REQUIRE that word to be in the Title Tags Description.
So depending on the flavour of running water sound you want you could try +water +stream
Or +water +fountain,
Or +dripping +pipe
Or +Tap
Or +river +waterfall +white-water

Etc..
Hence why it's important for people to tag/describe their sounds well, someone searching many tags at once will easily filter out many sounds that actually contain the elements just wasn't tagged / described.

Cheers.

I really like this idea of yours & I will make this notion < of running water> a theme for future sounds I record edit and upload & you can be damn sure whatever I upload will be adequately audible
I am just getting back into it after Adobe screwed the pooch with my bought copy of Audition 3 (FTN&F! ) But Christmas is around the corner so family affairs will obstruct...
Anyway expect a pack of my themed sounds uploaded here January '25 or sooner if I get time.

I nearly forgot to ask you about file requirements the file type I uploaded for these sounds... has to be .wav or mp3 from me sorry; but which other quality options would be suitable for you and duration anything up to 4 minutes max
Sample rate?/ Bit depth? / mono or stereo?

Hello, if I may interject,
Better go with the highest quality. People can convert down on their side using a software like audacity for individual files, or "media human audio converter" for batch files.

So wav vs mp3? Wav! can convert wav to mp3 and satisfy everyone, can't convert mp3 to true WAV.
Flac I'd say is technically better, as it's still lossless quality at a reduced file size. But may take more processing power and is less compatible yadi yada, so people may complain while no one will for wav. I try FLAC for longer recordings and wav for shot one-shot and loops and musical stuff.
If one must compress, I find .OGG or .OPUS to be much better compression than MP3 or AAC. (Just try encoding something at 64kbps mp3 vs ogg and see for yourself
Furthermore mp3 is limited to 320kbps, while one can go higher with other compression methods, and compress less. (Though 320kbps mp3 is perfectly fine to my ears)

Sample rate, 44.1khz is a standard for music, however most video recorders work in 48khz. Perhaps if its a video sfx type sound prefer 48khz, if its a music loop etc... opt for 44.1khz, I just stay at 48 or 92.

Bit depth, well depends on how dynamic your sound is, safe to always stay at 24bit though. I'd say 32 is a tad overkill after normalizing/processing the sound, but better is always better so 32bit is cool too.

In short, safe to record 48khz 24bit WAV and most people will be very happy. Can do 96khz for the producers folks.

(Am not an expert nor do I hold the truth, you do you adapted to your project and needs. Just a general guideline and my reasoning for why I choose those formats)

I'm curious, why the 4min max limitation?
Cheers!

Four minutes for a sound that isnt a song or piece of instrumental music is long enough I reckon
Also I'll be planning several different sorts of raw recordings of the sound of running water
Who is interested to listen to whatever sort of water for more than 3 minutes let alone 4?

maybe these are something

https://freesound.org/search/?q=klankbeeld+water+-riverside+-under-hydrophone+stream+-maas+-power+-kampina+-140203+-180408+-gas+-pump+-kids+-pond+-coast&f=&s=Rating+%28highest+first%29&si_tags=0&si_name=0&si_description=0&si_packname=0&si_sound_id=0&si_username=0&d0=0&d1=*&ig=0&r=0&g=0&dp=0&cm=0&mm=0

Okay, Klankbeeld is on the case - your concerns/needs will be met
Im never gonna try & compete with that man ;D
Ill still put something up when I can but K is the recording master!
Such as his' "small stream close 01 211111.wav" was the kinda sound I was hoping to get recorded

Water recordings (rapids, waterfall, etc...) is often white noise ish. And don't have that much variety (in the same recording). And the timbre of one water droplet doesn't differ that much from the next, let alone the other 400000.
So if I'm out and about field recording, 30s I think is generally enough for someone to loop it unnoticeably. So 2-3-4 min is indeed plenty for these kinds of sounds!

Yeah SadiqueCat, I learnt yesterday than any kind of sound even vaguely related to the noise family (white pink brown blue) is a total bastard to manipulate in Audition and so I throw my hat at any further attempts at Thunder. Last night working on Ks Thunder I couldnt even raise the volume without the selected sound turning into saturated white noise which frankly struck me as just muck. Absolutely anything recognisable about the sound of thunder went out the window all defintion all gone and so adding or mixing brown noise to boost or make the thunder fatter was just getting the same result ... what a sh1t idea.
Has someone here in Freesound managed to do amplification like that nicely?
I love to find it but I baulk at searching right now because there must be hundreds of Thunder tagged sounds in here!~
I veered completely off the subject there innit Sorry all

I just found this
https://freesound.org/s/93680/
What I did years ago in a local church at a baptismal font
I just came across it burbling away on its own iirc took the opportunity to record it
I didnt go lookin for it xDDD