The Hanna-Barbera Sound Effects Library, 1995 (3)

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From the box set booklet, 1995:

My career began as a sound engineer and producer, and the Hanna-Barbera sound effects library was the first I ever used. That was a lucky break because it was also the best.   The effects were fun to listen to and work with.  They were the first of their kind.  Now, flash forward 20 years and I’m the boss at Hanna-Barbera, and the first thing I wanted to do was to issue a comprehensive technically superior edition of the studio’s greatest effects ever.   (I knew I was right when my former partner called and the firs thing he asked was “When can I get a copy of the effects?”)

Maybe these effects are so great because they have to be:  The budgetary realities of TV cartoon require us to depend on effects to help tell our stories. But more likely they’re great because of the extraordinary talented people who created them.  We talked to TV cartoon pioneers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and sound editors Greg Watson and Pat Foley. In this collection, we’ve included some of their reminiscences dating back to the 1930’s.  I think you’ll enjoy the priceless sound effects secrets and behind-the-scenes information as much as I did.

Although small portions of the Hanna-Barbera sound effects library have been issued before in many other forms, this four CD set of over 2,200 effects represents the most comprehensive collection of Hanna-Barbera sound effects ever assembled (and it includes, for the first time anyway, our top-10 list of the most popular sounds used here at the studio). Sound Ideas, under the supervision of our team of editors, assisted in selecting the effects with special care: they’re digitally remastered with state-of-the-art noise reduction techniques to make them sound cleaner-and funnier-than ever before.

I’m sure you will enjoy using them as much as we do.

Fred Seibert
President, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
1995

More about the sound effects library here.