Brian Nimens, President and CEO of Sound Ideas, began the company as a recording studio in Toronto, Canada in 1978. Sound Ideas offers over 500,000 sound effects, production elements and royalty free music tracks for television, film sound design, game development, post-production, interactive media and any other professional audio production use you can throw at us.

We offer complete sound effects collections on hard drive, DVD and CD for delivery to your studio by digital download or physical shipment. With the acquisition of The Hollywood Edge Collections we have added over 70,000 high-end, professional royalty free tracks that were designed by Award Winning Sound Designers.

Series 1000, the very first royalty free sound effects library produced by Sound Ideas, was released on reel to reel tape in 1979. In association with the Phillips Corporation in Eindhoven, Netherlands - the birthplace of the compact disc - Sound Ideas published Series 1000 as the world's first compact disc sound effect library in 1985. The following year, Sound Ideas released Series 2000 - a 22 CD set that was the world's first fully digital sound effect library.