I need a crystal clear sound of a zip being done up. Where's the best place to buy or order a sound effect?

istockphoto.com does audio now… did a quick search and came up with lots of zippery sounds. Including “zipper on girl’s leather pants” and “having a quick pee”... they might have what you’re looking for, and reasonably priced.

www.istockphoto.com

Try freesound.org
Free SFX here, only pay close attention to the copyleft agreements!

Here are a couple of good paid options for various zipper sounds.
Which one depends on what you are using it for and how long the clip needs to be.

http://www.soundrangers.com/index.cfm?currentpage=1&fuseaction=category.display&category_id=479

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/display/sounds.cfm/sound_group_iid.787

Sounddogs.com is good.

If you have the EP Chronic Town by R.E.M., on the song “Stumble”, there is a very clear sound of a zipper being done up, a beat and then Michael Stipe giggles, (apparently) taps his front teeth and says “Teeth!” at the beginning of the track. You’d have to isolate it with a audio file editor, but there you are; if you have the album it won’t cost you but 5 minutes of time.

Actually, iMovie has a ton of sound effects built in. You may just want to check those out.

http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/826436-zipper-sound-effect-wav

That is the best one I could find.

Thanks for the suggestions!

@dverhey I can’t spot a zip sound effect in there, but I’m wary of embedding them in a custom application since I can’t seem to easily find a license for them in any of the iMovie files or documentation.

Again, thanks for the suggestions. I’ll investigate these.

Here are a few from a site i go to now and again . : zipper

@sandystrachan Thanks for the suggestion, but this sound will be distributed in a commercial application so I’d want to make sure there was an appropriate license attached that I could retain a copy of.

non distorted sound of a zipper, how long is the zipper, how fast it is being closed and have you tried the record mode on the computer. You could also go to a professional recording studio, minimal cost of a 3 minute or less use of the recording device, you would have total rights to the sound and it would be Epic record quality. If you want a good sound….

Have you tried iTunes? They have sound effects now, though I am not sure of the copy right. There are also public domain sites that have sound effects, good ones, I have used one or two for home goofing around with rerecording an old classic from ‘66. It sounded good, and because I only use it for home amusement I am not sure of the legal ramifications of it.

If you still want a zipper sound , i could give it a try and make one for you . How long would you want the recording ?

@sandystrachan Thanks so much for the offer, but we found what we were after. That’s really kind of you though.

Thats ok , i thought you might of . I should have offered first time round.