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I really need some "real" sounding wave/sea/ocean and wind samples. All the ones I find are unfortunately low bitrate, not long enough in length (a loop is often recognisable) or synthetic sounding.

So, any help would be appreciated!

Thank you.

Hi,
Perhaps you are only listening to the low bitrate preview. To hear the full quality version you must download the sound. To tell if the sound is of reasonable quality, look just below the waveform picture and there will be a description of the file type (wav, aif, mp3, flac, etc.)
Perhaps this one works?
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=19033

Right - heavy compression (of the kind used for the preview here) is, in my experience, very unkind to recordings of water and waves. For example, I have a water sample pack (simultaneous recordings with different mic configurations) that sounds absolutely awful in the preview, but the wave files sound OK (or at least like water).

http://www.freesound.org/packsViewSingle.php?id=1451

Thanks for the advice. I can tell you though that at all times I wasn't using the preview button, but in fact downloading the proper file.

I have yet to find sounds of waves that sound completely realistic. For some reason it's very hard to do an audio recording of them well. Most "samples" sound distorted in some way; and definitely not capturing the expansive nature of the true sound of the sea.

I am just today preparing my sound fx collection from the holidays that I will also partly share on freesound. I also captured some waves and cicadas, streams, waterfalls, wind in the pine trees with cicadas, etc. Maybe you will find something useful. It will be probably on sometime tommorow.

Satoration
I am just today preparing my sound fx collection from the holidays that I will also partly share on freesound. I also captured some waves and cicadas, streams, waterfalls, wind in the pine trees with cicadas, etc. Maybe you will find something useful. It will be probably on sometime tommorow.

Looking forward to it.

http://www.freesound.org/packsViewSingle.php?id=3641

I live near the sea and have made many attempts to catch the sound but throw them out 'cos they 'aint right.So yeah...difficult....there are a few in my files here but maybe too short for your needs.
I think this one is pretty accurate-it's from DIGIFISHMUSIC
http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=54577

Hi jcy,

jcy
I really need some "real" sounding wave/sea/ocean and wind samples.

jcy
All the ones I find are unfortunately low bitrate, not long enough in length (a loop is often recognisable) or synthetic sounding.

Also the sea is a pretty big thing. I think there's no way you can get its magnitude in one recording. You may wish to play around with closer recordings of splashing waves, distant recordings of waves roaring, very distant recording of just a soupy buzz and stuff like that.
Especially on 5.1 rigs you should get cool, surfin' results that way.

I've posted a few seamlessly loopable water sounds, including some nice lapping shore waves:

http://www.freesound.org/usersViewSingle.php?id=523848

Cheers,
Sinatra314

Here u go mate. Try these out. i dunno if there any good to ya but u never know.....
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I live nowhere near the ocean, if I record myself splashing a spoon in a toilet bowl would that work??

It might work yeah

And thanks to all here for these ocean/water sounds!!!!!!!!!!
This is a great thread.