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Hi, I have been making a track and am in need of a couple of sounds: The first one is water drop sounds that sound, and preferably are, natural, but also can be used to compose a tune. So I want to be able to use them as samples/notes. And the second one is, preferably binaural/3-D, field recordings in which I want to hear rainfall and no other elements (traffic noise, animals etc.) if possible. And the drops should not fall on any surface that may suppress the rain sound. What I mean is that the drops should not fall on a porch or a metal surface. So I have searched the previously uploaded sounds for those but I have not yet found what I am looking for. Is it possible that anyone upload any sounds that I can use or inform me of those uploaded so far or in the future? Thanks in advance...

Recently I was looking for water drop sounds and found these useful:
https://freesound.org/people/Andy_Gardner/sounds/251486/
https://freesound.org/people/Legnalegna55/sounds/543649/

There is a search box on the top right of the screen.
The Freesound database contains well over half a million sounds, most have decent tags and descriptions, which means you can usually find what you are looking for unless it is something really exoteric.

Try searching for "dripping", "water drops" or similar.

AlienXXX wrote:
Recently I was looking for water drop sounds and found these useful:
https://freesound.org/people/Andy_Gardner/sounds/251486/
https://freesound.org/people/Legnalegna55/sounds/543649/

There is a search box on the top right of the screen.
The Freesound database contains well over half a million sounds, most have decent tags and descriptions, which means you can usually find what you are looking for unless it is something really exoteric.

Try searching for "dripping", "water drops" or similar.

Drizzle on boundery of woodland and moorland. Clean, denoised..

https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/578067/

hope you can use it

Hi there !

Maybe some of my sounds would suit your needs ?
https://freesound.org/people/kevp888/sounds/441659/
https://freesound.org/people/kevp888/sounds/530752/
https://freesound.org/people/kevp888/sounds/530754/

Hope it could help !

Here are some I uploaded a few years ago in 4 different rates:
https://freesound.org/people/zimbot/sounds/395178/
https://freesound.org/people/zimbot/sounds/395179/
https://freesound.org/people/zimbot/sounds/395180/
https://freesound.org/people/zimbot/sounds/395181/

Some of those individual hits are very tonal and could form a reasonable sample for playing music.

But, by the way, rain whose drops don't hit anything won't actually make any sound. Perhaps you're really looking for rain landing in puddles or ponds far away from any intrusive noises, like deep in the back country?

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for all the help you have provided.
I should have explained it more clearly that sounds of rain drops falling on a concrete surface or a pond would be fine but I would not be able to use sounds of drops hitting a metal surface etc..

So, what would suit your purposes is probably something recorded in a kitchen or bathroom rather than recordings of rain because of likely extraneous sounds.

This one is probably too faint
https://freesound.org/people/stebbi30000@gmail.com/sounds/339493/

This one likely to be useable
https://freesound.org/people/wshintani/sounds/269343/

As this one, although this is 'fake' water drops
https://freesound.org/people/iut_Paris8/sounds/260243/

maby this and look the way I search (by excluding sounds with -this ore -that). Soo you come to youre goal.
Yust start with rain, go to the first sound and you hear traffic, than edit -traffic etc...

This is how I did search in my own account;
https://freesound.org/search/?q=rain+water+field-recording+-traffic+-birds+++klankbeeld+-thunder&f=duration%3A%5B0+TO+*%5D&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=1&g=

here an other excluding search with all accounts

https://freesound.org/search/?q=rain+water+field-recording+-bugs+-window+-traffic+-birds++-thunder&f=duration%3A%5B0+TO+*%5D&s=Automatic+by+relevance&advanced=1&g=

Excluding is much more effective (only 5 negative steps) than thying to find (including/positive staps). I hope you understand what I mean.

soo
1] start with rain (thats what you want.
2] open advanced search options en switch off "groep sounds by pack.
3] listen to the first sound listed and look what is is not good on it. Is ther a word in the text ore tags that is not okay and do -thatword
etc...

thats the way to go to your goal.