About DailySounds
How Daily Sounds started
I bought a Rode microphone to make music on. Then I was dissatisfied with the amount of samples that were out on the market and available free for download and use in my songs. So I started a YouTube channel called Daily Sounds, where people could download sound effects that I had created.
The first one went up in January 2018, a recording of washing hands with the note “WASH YOUR DANG HANDS.” I've added sounds ever since, and the YouTube uploads have been played more than 2.6M times.
Now I've made this website. I want it to be a place for people to download sounds, and eventually a place where people can upload and share sounds as well. That part has started: creators can already send in their own sounds.
How I record, and why
“I have a Rode microphone, and then I bought a Tascam Portacapture and used that one. Just recording sounds whenever I hear something unique or cool or a good sample. Try and record it, get it posted up on the website, on the YouTube channel. Ultimately I love music production, and I wanted to figure out a way I could make money, something in audio, and that's how Daily Sounds was born. I was like, this is cool stuff and I want to have some samples. Well, it wasn't really for money. I just did it because I wanted other people to have these samples that I love using.”
What's in the library
Four kinds of sound:
- Recordings of real things: power tools and grinders, a Stihl chainsaw, a four-wheeler and a diesel pickup starting up, a snowmobile, a blow torch, kitchens and bathrooms, cats, cows and rain. My uploads from 2020 to early 2022 name the microphone I used then, a Rode NT-USB.
- Designed effects built and edited for videos and games: impacts, whooshes, sci-fi machines, game feedback, horror stingers and meme-style clips.
- Synthesized sounds: a few newer sounds, such as power-ups, risers and warning beeps, are made with code, not recorded.
- Community uploads from creators who share their own work. Each one is credited on its page and checked before it goes live.
What's on each sound page
Every sound has its own page. The player shows the sound's real waveform, and the download is free: an MP3, or WAV and OGG copies made from it in your browser. Under that are facts measured from the file itself: length, format, sample rate, loudness in LUFS, true peak, whether the two channels are really different, and where the sound starts, peaks and ends. The editing notes come from those numbers. So they'll tell you stuff like how much quiet to trim off the front so a hit lands right on your cut.
Sounds from the YouTube channel show the day they first went up, and on most of them you'll see the note I wrote when I posted it. If a page gets a sound wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.
Categories and collections group the sounds by what they're for, and the guides pick real sounds from the library for YouTube edits, games, apps and film, with a player for every pick.
Using the sounds
You can use the sounds in videos, podcasts, games, apps and client projects, including commercial ones. Credit is appreciated but not required. The main rule: don't resell or re-upload the raw files as your own sound library. The license page has the details.
How DailySounds is paid for
The site is free and supported by ads. I also sell a few WAV sound packs on itch.io, and one of them is free. Subscribing on YouTube is the best way to follow new sounds: a new one goes up there every day.
Contact and copyright
For questions, sound requests or a problem with a sound, use the contact form. If you believe a sound uses audio you own, the license page explains how to send a takedown request; every request gets reviewed.
A new sound every day on YouTube
A new sound effect goes up on the Daily Sounds YouTube channel every day, and it shows up here soon after it goes public. Subscribe if you want to hear them first.