Royalty free and commercial use audio

I've struggled for a while to find good sound effects and music that can be used on my youtube videos. There are a lot of sites out there that offer royalty free content however, they want you to buy the music or sound effects first of all. Other sites give you Creative Commons non-commercial attribution licenses. These are mostly good to use but, as the license states they do not allow for commercialisation of your video on youtube (or else where for that matter).

It's taken a long time to track these sites down but so far I have these 2 main sites as the best source of audio content online that will allow you to commercially distrabute your videos and animations on youtube. Or else where.

http://incompetech.com/
http://www.freesound.org

The first site has a lot, and I mean a lot, of music. Especially considering that it is all produced by one person (Kevin MacLeod) and the only condition on use is that the audio is listed within the video as coming from that site, by the musician and which track it was you used. The second site is a collection of sound effects. Well, the audio there is not specifically made as sound effects and a lot of it can be a bit raw as it's just a site for people to upload any and all noises to. Most of them are within context (tagged, titled, etc) to make it easy to find the type of noise that you want and you just need to register a free account to download a track. All of the sounds there are listed under the creative commons no rights reserved license, so you can download them and then edit them and include them in your own videos, animations or other works for commercial distribution without any problems.

Of course, the best way to get sound effects is to make them yourself. The music on the other hand is not as easy for those of use less musically inclined. Producing the content yourself is time consuming though.

The one site I found that was of interest as well is http://www.fiverr.com it's a site that lets people offer services for $5 - hence the name of the site, everything is $5 - and they have a lot of voice over artists listed there. Most of the ads say it's limited to 60 seconds which sounds ideal for my own videos as I tend to be between 2 and 5 minutes in  length and I don't think any of my characters would have more than 1 minute of dialogue in the whole video. I've not tried this yet but I will and report back here once I do.

Does anyone else know of good resources to use or what do you use or do?

Dialogue recording problems!

So this is my first blog post here! Woohoo! I had wanted the page http://cerebraldump.blogspot.com but that is already taken. Bah. So this one will do for now.

I was trying to record some dialogue last night and everything seemed to be going well. I made a few mistakes here and there and had to repeat my lines, no big deal though. I just removed the mistakes with audacity and thought it was all good. That was until I ran it through the normalise effect and noise removal. As it turns out, my mic had picked up the dup-dup-dup from the washing machine of the neighbour above me. D'oh. I've not been able to remove the noise with any of the effects in Audacity, so I've just had to live with it. After I played it back, through the speakers and with headphones in work this morning, I was not able to hear it. So all good then? Mostly, I'm still trying to find out how to remove that type of background noise with Audacity. Maybe one day I will find out - does anyone know how to?

Anyway, in case you've not been following my youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/cerebraldump) I bought a new mic specifically to record audio for my animations. Check out this video to see the quality difference.

I also have a twitter account @ http://www.twitter.com/cerebraldump - I post my favourites and uploaded videos there. Check it out or follow if you like what you see!