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October 14, 2014 12:02 PM

I'm looking for free audio files online that could be used for practicing EQ and other processing tools.

My Google-fu seems to be failing me. Ideally, I'm looking files that contain interview/voice rather than music, but anything will work. Also hoping to find files designed specifically for this purpose - so a file with a hiss or hum that needs attenuation or similar, rather than generically "noisy" files.

I have a lynda.com account so have found some there, but am looking for other files that might work.

Any suggestions?

posted by Ms. Toad to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

The Free Music Archive has a Spoken genre section.
posted by puritycontrol at 1:21 PM on October 14, 2014

What's the end result you're trying to get to?
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 1:22 PM on October 14, 2014

"Stem tracks" is the most common term I've seen used where you can get isolated tracks of a song, like just the vocal, or just the lead guitar part, or just the drum parts.

So that might be a useful search term. I think this stuff tends to pop up on YouTube pretty regularly, and I think we've had some posts on MetaFilter about it.
posted by soundguy99 at 1:58 PM on October 14, 2014

www.freesound.org
posted by AppleTurnover at 9:49 PM on October 14, 2014 [1 favorite]