As used extensively by the BBC and broadcast producers and editors, please use the form below to request a tracklist of sound effects. This is a free service provided by the Jonathan Slatter Music library – an approved BBC music library supplier – for BBC & broadcast producers and editors. If we have the sounds you are looking for we will send you a link to download them.
As used extensively by the BBC and broadcast producers and editors, please use the form below to request a tracklist of music suggestions for your programme. This is a free service provided by the Jonathan Slatter Music library – an approved BBC music library supplier. All music will be pre-cleared for worldwide distribution.
Some very gentle relaxing sea waves breaking on to the pebbles and shingle at Lulworth Cove on Dorset’s Jurassic coastline in the UK. The shape of the cove was caused by Wave Diffraction – see the Wiki Article here.
The waves were recorded early in the morning, on the pebble and shingle beach inside the cove, on a calm sunny day using a matched stereo pair of Clippy EM172s and an Olympus LS-14 portable recorder. Editing and post production carried out in Reaper. You can download the waves from the audio player for private use only. The audio is Copyright Jonathan Slatter 2025. For commercial use of any kind please download from the Pond5 site here.
Lulworth Cove, Man o War Cove, Durdle Door and Portland Bill Lighthouse
A little trip down memory lane of some of the recording equipment I have used and people I have worked with over the years…
Making Sound Effects
Aside from music and radio production I’ve always really enjoyed recording sound effects, especially nature sounds – and even more especially the sound of the sea. This was in many ways because in the early days, when I was working from my parents’ house, I had no money, so when making radio adverts, if I needed sound effects I would go out and record them myself rather than buy them. In those days I recorded with my one and only microphone – the amazing Beyer 201 dynamic and a Tascam 32 1/4″ tape machine. So where I could to record was really restricted to the length of the microphone cable…
In 1994 I purchased a Sony stereo mic and a Teac Portable Dat Recorder, the DA-P20, which I took to the US to record the ‘Sounds of New York City’ in September of that year.
Later I had a portable kit comprising an HHB Portadat with a Sennheiser MKH30 / MKH40 M-S stereo pair – wrapped up in a Rycote windjammer.
if you can’t close the Media Pool or other panes in Davinci Resolve Studio – trying going to Settings/Preferences and under the USER tab, de-select: ‘Use optimised UI layouts for vertical video’
HD Man typing on laptop computer– FREE TO DOWNLOAD
HD Footage of man working from home on a laptop computer
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4K Footage of Pedne Vounder sandy beach in Cornwall UK
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4K Ocean Waves Sandy Beach Footage – FREE TO DOWNLOAD
4K Footage of ocean waves breaking onto the sandy beach at Sandbanks, Poole UK at sunset. Includes pro recorded sound. £FREE! Available instantly. 4K mov H.264 440.6MB
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