Sounddogs.com is a commercial online library of sound effect

Sound effect

For the album by The Jam, see Sound Affects.Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media...

s. , 500,000 sound effects and production music tracks are available for immediate download or on hard drive or CD. Downloads are available in AIFF

AIFF

Audio Interchange File Format is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices...

, WAV

WAV

Waveform Audio File Format , is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs...

, and MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 formats. Their website began providing service in May, 1997. Sounddogs.com is based in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, with offices in Canada, Argentina, and Uruguay.

Company history

In 1990, Greg King and Nelson Ferreira formed Sound Dogs (Toronto). In 1995, Greg King, Robert Grieve, and Robert Nokes formed Sound Dogs USA in Los Angeles, California. Sounddogs.com was formed in 1996 and launched in 1997 by Sound Dogs LA. Around 1999, Nelson Ferreira partnered with Stephen Barden at Sound Dogs Canada. In late 2001, Sound Dogs USA (King, Grieve) and Sounddogs.com (Nokes)separated. Sound Dogs New York was started by Stephen Barden around 2005.

Currently, there are three separately owned Sounddogs companies: Sound Dogs (USA), owned by Greg King; Sound Dogs (Toronto), owned by Nelson Ferreira. and Sounddogs.com, Inc., owned by Robert Nokes.

2009, Greg King formed King Soundworks.

Alumni from Sound Dogs Canada include Craig Henighan, Paula Fairfield, Darren King, and Yann Delpuech.

Content partners

Aside from in-house sound effects by Rob Nokes, Sounddogs.com has partnerships with many sound designer and companies in order to provide the best selection possible. Partners include:

Charles Maynes, Elliot Koretz, AMG, Airborne Sound Library, Bobby Mackston, Casablanca, Coll Anderson, Copra Studios, Craig Henighan, Dan O’Connell, Digiffects, Elements, Farts Dot Com, Hanna Barbera, Interplay

Interplay Entertainment

Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. The company had been a quality developer until they started publishing their own games in 1988, like Neuromancer and Battle Chess. The company was renamed...

, Nightingale Mobile, Nightingale Voice Box, Nokes Library, Point One Sound, Ripe, Rob Nokes Horse Racing Collection, Sonic Science, Sound Ideas

Sound Ideas

Sound Ideas is the repository of one of the largest commercially available sound effects libraries in the world. It has accumulated the sound effects, which it releases in collections on CD and hard drive, through acquisition, exclusive arrangement with movie studios, and in-house...

SFX, Sound HOG, Sound Label, Sonospheres, Sounddogs, Soundminer, Soundstorm, The Anarchist Cookbook, The Recordist, Tomahawk Films, Trak Works, Valentino, and Zak Sound.