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Here are some more examples using firearms. (Firearms are some of the most de-
tailed and descriptive sounds so we are using them for several examples.)
Rifle (brings up all the long firearms)
Firearm (brings up all firearms, guns rifles etc.)
Automatic (brings up all the automatic and semi automatic firearms)
Rifle Semi automatic (brings up only the rifles that are labled semi automatic)
Rifle not full auto... (brings up all the rifles that are not full automatic)
Rifle 22 (brings up all the 22 caliber rifles)
Pistol (brings up all handguns)
Pistol revolver (brings up all handguns that are revolvers, not magazine fed)
Pistol not revolver (brings up the handguns that are magazine fed)
Pistol or rifle (brings up all the pistols and rifles)
Rifle green (nothing comes up)
Just for fun, be sure to bring up a variety of combat war sounds and play them along
side some screaming cats. Brings a whole new meaning to the word cat fight. Or play
them extremely loud at home with some “screams NOT alien” and see who shows up at
the door.
Word context
Sometimes you can get extra words by trying both the singular and plural versions
of some words. In this library, very common words such as “Creak” will also show up
using creaks, creaking and creaky. Not every possible word or combination is done this
way though so be sure to experiment with commonly used words.
The NOT command comes in very handy. If you want all the animals except the cats,
a search of “animals NOT cats” will bring up all the animals that do not have cats in
their keywords.
Numbers and single characters
When searching for firearms (sound effects that is) many of them have the model
and caliber number in the name of the file. The database ignores most of the common
punctuation marks so you can type “ak 47” and get all the AK-47 rifles. In fact, just the
entry of “ak” will also bring up all the AK-47 rifles.
However, a single letter is an illegal word so M-16 will bring up 0 results for “m” and
155 files for 16. (everything with the number 16 including some M-16 rifles) For those
cases, a search of “gun” and “16” will get all the M-16 rifles and nothing else. So, to quick-
ly find any type of gun or rifle, you can use the term firearm or gun plus any relevant
number to home in on what you want. (try 16,60,50,44,47,357,22,12,8,16 etc. plus the
word “gun”)