Where to get pro toon sound FX, cheap

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Sound. It’s what makes a cartoon come alive. So, where to get high-quality sound FX for toons? There are two big studio CDs of sound FX that you can currently buy used at fairly cheap prices on Amazon.

1) The ”Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Sound FX” CD was published in 1994 by Rhino. “No commercial use”, but presumably amateur use is fine.

Apparently this was a budget digest CD culled from an earlier and much larger four-CD collection (no longer available for sale) which is described on Wikipedia…

“Sound Ideas released a four-CD set entitled ”The Hanna-Barbera Sound FX Library”, featuring nearly all of the original H-B sound effects used from 1957 to 1990 […]. The sound effects were digitally remastered, so they would fit easily on new digital soundtracks. A fifth CD was added in 1996, entitled ”Hanna-Barbera Lost Treasures”, and featured more sound effects including sounds from ”Space Ghost” and ”The Impossibles”.”

2) The Warner Bros. equivalent CD is Crash Bang Boom: The Best of WB Sound FX published by Rhino in 2000. There are apparently 98 FX on the CD, but it’s less useful because you’ll need to rip the CD and then edit — as the CD is padded out by having the sound FX linked by narration and voice skits. This is apparently the list of FX on the WB CD…

　　Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
　　Who’s There?
　　Banana Peel
　　Daffy’s Plane Crash
　　Big Blow Up
　　Party Horns
　　Seems Like Yesterday…
　　Big Fat Kiss
　　Ain’t I a Hoot?
　　Nuttin’ Like a Little Shut-Eye
　　Yippi
　　Hiccup
　　Ouch
　　Funny Animals
　　Headache
　　My New Car
　　C-C-C-Cold!
　　Something I Said?
　　Monster
　　Fast Talker
　　Why Me?
　　There They Go Go Go
　　Klonk
　　Woops
　　Youch
　　Whoa
　　Falling
　　Falling…Ouch
　　Funny Fall
　　Oww!
　　Slip
　　Paper Parasol Commercial
　　Look Out
　　Collision
　　Falling Rock
　　Rock Fell
　　Marvin the Martian’s Message
　　Wild Uproar
　　Wild Roar
　　Road Rage
　　Ooh, That Smarts
　　Arf
　　More Funny Animal
　　Another Monster
　　Funny Growl
　　Weird Vibes
　　Outer Space
　　Emergency
　　Evil Laughter
　　Mom’s Reaction
　　Tweety’s Message
　　Welcome to Wackyland
　　Daffy Duck Tries to Read Poetry
　　To Drink, Beep, Chain Saw, Paper Rattle, Flying Duck, Voo-Bah Voo-Bah,
　　Funny Bonks
　　Funny Car
　　Gizmo
　　Funny Cork Pop
　　Wild Corks
　　Out of Steam
　　Funny Gulp
　　Big Slide
　　Sylvester’s Message
　　Tunnel Paint Commercial
　　Shloop
　　Big Train
　　Big Horn
　　Big Crash
　　Pepe le Pew’s Message
　　Two Dogs, a Bird, and a Bone
　　Ah Choo-Choo
　　Whee
　　Slide Whistle
　　Zip
　　Ha-Ha
　　Gezundheit
　　Goofy Gizmo Explosion
　　Rapunzel
　　Tower Construction
　　Hair She Comes
　　Tweety’s Tewephone
　　Screech
　　Heart-Beeps
　　Catastrophe
　　Falling Cat
　　Marching Pink Elephants
　　Daffy Duck’s Message
　　Porky Pig’s Message
　　Big Balloon, the Big Gulp, Tarzan’s Last Swing, Going Down?, High W
　　Happy Birthday from Bugs Bunny
　　Happy Birthday from Marvin the Martian
　　Good Egg
　　Marvin’s Lab I
　　Earthquake Tablets Commercial
　　Plop/Fizz
　　Gulp
　　Avalanche
　　That’s All Folks/Merrily We Roll Along

Keep in mind also that WB are a company with a record of being very trigger-happy on claiming copyright infringement.