12 sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen

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This week on A Sound Effect, we delve into a diverse collection of sound libraries, each lovingly made to enhance your audio projects.

First up, we have organic UI elements that offer an earthen touch to interfaces, plus sounds of the outdoors with tranquil nature ambiences and a farm animal collection with charming sounds of sheep, chickens, and pigs.

For those looking to transport their listeners to other worlds, we have a sci-fi collection with both intense and quiet spaceship pass-bys, as well as haunting cinematic impacts and an explosive collection of M60 machine guns for battle-focused projects.

Heading to more abstract but always useful sounds, we have powerful whooshes that pack a punch, sounds of rich, resonant metal, your choice of a small pack or massive collection of contact mic sounds, and smashed ceramics that offer a crisp edge.

To top it off, we have sounds from New York City's Grand Central Station, capturing this vibrant and iconic transit hub. Happy listening!

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Zombie sound effects library
Cinematic Nightmares – Impacts Vol.1

'Cinematic Nightmares – Impacts Vol.1' by Evolved Audio offers high-impact sounds for horror and cinematic productions. Each sound includes six variations with designed and layered sections.
 
  • Cinematic & Trailer Sound Effects Cinematic Nightmares – Impacts Vol.1 Play Track 708 sounds included $25

    Introducing the 2nd Instalment in the Cinematic Nightmares Series

    Bite-Sized Packs with High-Impact Sounds for Your Horror, Trailer & Cinematic Productions

    Enter the brutal heart of cinematic terror with Cinematic Nightmares: Impacts Vol.1—a meticulously crafted sound pack designed to deliver raw, unrelenting power straight to your speakers. Packed with thunderous impacts, bone-rattling hits, and layered textures of chaos, this collection is built to elevate your horror trailers, dark cinematic cues, and intense game soundscapes. Whether you’re crafting jump scares, dramatic transitions, or tension-building moments, these sounds will hit with precision and presence, helping you shape unforgettable sonic moments that grab attention and refuse to let go.

    Two Powerful Sections: Designed & Layers

    Like its whooshing predecessor, this pack is built for flexibility and depth:

    ● Designed Section – 10 fully layered impact sounds, sculpted and delivered in both wet and dry versions for instant drag-and-drop power. You get 20 ready-to-use files to give your productions immediate punch.
    ● Layers Section – Go deeper with 49 expertly curated impact layers, each provided in both wet and dry versions. That’s 98 individual files, purpose-built for layering, tweaking, or using standalone.

    Endless Creative Control

    Each sound includes 6 variations per file, with both wet and dry processing included. This means you’re not locked into any one sound—you can apply your own reverb, layer them with other effects, or manipulate them into entirely new sonic monstrosities. Total freedom, zero compromise.

    Massive Value: 708 High-Quality Sounds

    With this pack, you’re not just getting great sound—you’re getting a full arsenal of ready-to-use audio assets:

    ● Designed Sounds: 120 wet and dry variations (10 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
    ● Layered Sounds: 588 wet and dry variations (49 sounds × 6 variations × 2 formats).
    ● Bonus One-Shots: Every variation is also provided as a pre-cut one-shot—clearly labeled and organised within its own folder, drag-and-drop ready for your DAW or sampler, making workflow fast and seamless.

    Check out the sound demo here:

    Cinematic Nightmares - Impacts Vol.1 – Sound Effects Demo | Evolved Audio

    All sounds are provided in 24-bit / 96kHz resolution, ensuring industry-standard quality. The total pack size is 5.6 GB, and everything is embedded with full UCS-compliant metadata to keep your sound library organised, searchable, and production-ready.

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Farm Animals – Sheep, Chicken and more

'Farm Animals – Sheep, Chicken and more' by Sound of Essen features various farm animals, including vocalizations from sheep, cattle, pigs, and poultry. It also includes insect sounds and farm ambiences for rich, authentic atmospheres.
 
  • Animal Sound Effects Farm Animals – Sheep, Chicken and more Play Track 300+ sounds included $64

    In this comprehensive collection you’ll discover an extensive array of pristine, isolated recordings capturing the nuanced vocalizations of a diverse range of farm animals. Included is maybe one of the most detailed distinctions between various sheep breeds – from the weak first calls of a lamb to the breathy but historic bleating of  the Soay Sheep to the more robust calls of Suffolk Sheep up to the harsh burping of Scottish Black Face Sheep (and even more sheep). Explore the intricate world of poultry with detailed recordings of div. roosters and  chickens, as well as some ducks, turkey and geese, each captured with exceptional clarity.

    Beyond the ovine and avian, Farm Animals extends its sonic palette to include:

    • Bovine: Deep moos, gentle lowing, and characteristic snorts from various cattle breeds.
    • Porcine: Grunts, squeals, and the contented snuffling of pigs.
    • Equine: some whinnies, neighs, and the soft nickering of donkeys & horses

    Each recording within the Farm Animal library has been captured using hd recording techniques, ensuring exceptional fidelity and minimal noise. These are meticulously documented sonic portraits, offering a wealth of textural detail and emotional resonance.

    On top of these close up recording, the library also includes some farm ambiences. Inside the hen house, with sleeping hens or eery industrial noises from milk farms.

    As honey bees are as much an industrial worker as cows, pics or sheep, some insects are included too.

    Farm Animals provides you with the raw sonic ingredients to craft immersive and believable rural environments, adding layers of authenticity that will elevate your countryside projects or give you unique source material to design alien voices or monsters, dinosaurs, zombies and more. Whether you’re working on film, television, games, or interactive installations, this library offers the depth and breadth of sounds required to truly bring your scenes to life. On top, no animals have been harmed, handled or annoyed by me, all vocals occured naturally.

    Animals included: Antwerp Belgian Breed, Barnevelder Bantam, Bielefelder Kennhuhn, Brown Hen, Minorca Hen, Other Chicken, Rooster, Cows / Cattle, Highland Cattle, Donkey, Goat, Honey Bee, Bentheim Black Pied Pig, Other Pigs, Camerun Sheep, Coburg Fox Sheep, Domestic Sheep, German Heath Sheep, Scottish Blackface Sheep, Soay Sheep. Suffolk Sheep, Lamb, Horse, Pony, Shetland, Mallard, Red Crested Pochard, Rasseflügel Limburg, House Goose, Steinbacher Kampfgans, Indian Runner Duck, Black Swan, Turkey, Fantail Pigeon, Sparrows, Short toed tree creeper, dogs – for vocalization and amount of calls, check the file list

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Spaceship Pass By

'Spaceship Pass By' by rawAmbience will enhance your sci-fi and space themed projects. This collection features dynamic audio for rapid spacecraft movements, from quiet passbys to intense, dramatic scenes.
 
  • Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Spaceship Pass By Play Track 130 sounds included, 9 mins total $10

    Engage your audience in a thrilling auditory experience with our Spaceship Pass-By Sound Effects. Perfect for futuristic, sci-fi, or space-themed projects, these high-quality sound effects capture the dynamic transition of a spaceship moving through space at high speeds.

    Whether you’re designing a dramatic space battle scene, enhancing a sci-fi video game, or adding a realistic touch to a film or animation, these sound effects provide the perfect audio to accompany rapid spaceship movements, smooth transitions, or intense atmospheric changes. The collection includes a variety of passes, from sleek, quiet spacecraft to roaring, heavy-hitting vessels, each designed to create an immersive and otherworldly feeling.

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Powerful Whoosh

'Powerful Whoosh' by Master of Dreams has 200 96kHz/24Bit WAV files, ideal for enhancing transitions in motion design, video games, infographics, and animations with dynamic audio elements.
 
MASTERGUN – M60E6

'MASTERGUN – M60E6' by Aftertouch Audio features 28 channels of raw recordings, including unsuppressed and suppressed shots, recorded in the Nevada Desert with designed mixes and extensive UCS metadata.
 
  • Bundles MASTERGUN – M60E6 Play Track 1563 sounds included $90

    The Master Gun M60E6 Sound Effects library is recorded using a large array of various microphone configurations, we recorded shots from several distances in an open shooting range in the Nevada Desert.

    Raw Recordings

    Our raw shots features a total of 28 channels including 13 Stereo and 2 mono sources. All of our close and mid spaced pair Microphone options can be used as two independent mono microphones. The right side of every spaced pair will have more Mech than its left side counterpart.
    Every single gun has been recorded using the same gain settings on the same recorders, and we have level matched each microphone option between the same calibers so your 50ft microphones will be the same or similar across all libraries that share the same calibers. This makes mixing large amounts of weapons easier as the loudness and character of each gun is predictable.

    Our foley features a total of 4 audio channels with 1 Stereo and 2 mono sources, including the Sanken CO-100k which captures frequencies above 100kHz for extreme pitch shifting workflows.

    Suppressed Recordings

    In addition to the unsuppressed shot recordings, we’ve also sampled the M60E6 with a suppressor attachment. The suppressed M60E6 was sampled right after the unsuppressed recordings using the exact same microphone setup as the unsuppressed version. This provides you a seamless transition between the unsuppressed and the suppressed recordings.
    The suppressed recordings also have the added benefit of muting the shot layers which helps bring out the intricate details of the mechanism (mech layers).
    Because adding a suppressor to the firearm increases the weapons muzzle velocity, the fire rate of the suppressed weapon is slightly faster than its unsuppressed counterpart.

    Designed Mixes

    Created from the ground up we’ve designed a collection of game-ready mixes for your next project. If you are creating your own custom weapons system and would like to use our designed mixes in your project, you can use our no-tail options which are our realistic designed mixes without our tail layers. Just drag, and drop.

    UCS compatible metadata embedded

    All files contain extensive metadata to provide you with the fastest and easiest workflow possible. Metadata can be read and processed by audio management tools. Some digital audio workstations feature an included search tool that can also read embedded metadata.

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Organic UI Elements

'Organic UI Elements' by Sebaudio offers real-world interactions with materials like clay and glass, with minimal processing. It features clicks, whooshes, and swipes for organic, tactile realism in digital experiences.
 
  • User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Organic UI Elements Play Track 582 sounds included $40

    A versatile collection of meticulously recorded interactions with real-world materials: clay, glass, metal, paper, plastic, vocal, and wood. Captured with minimal processing to preserve their raw texture and flexibility, these sounds are ready to use straight out of the box or layered to enhance existing UI audio.

    The library features clicks, hits, whooshes, swipes, and slides, tailored for buttons, toggles, switches, transitions, notifications, and navigation. Whether you’re shaping a mobile app, fine-tuning game UI, or crafting interactive installations, these sounds add organic depth and tactile realism to digital experiences. The recordings were made with two Sennheiser MKH 8040 microphones and an RME Babyface interface, ensuring pristine, high-detail audio quality.

    Ideal for UI/UX designers, game developers, and sound artists seeking to create grounded, sensory-rich interactions.

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Resonant Metal

'Resonant Metal' by New Sound Lab features a variety of metallic sounds, from high-frequency tones to heavy impacts. It includes raw recordings of metal objects and designed sounds, all captured in 24-bit / 192kHz WAV.
 
  • Metal Sound Effects Resonant Metal Play Track 151+ sounds included $39

    Resonant Metal is a sound library built around the resonant and tonal characteristics of metal. It features a wide variety of recordings—from small, high-frequency metal tones to large, heavy impacts with long sustain. The focus is on metallic sounds with rich overtones, clean transients, and tonal clarity.

    The library includes both raw recordings of real-world metal objects (bowls, trays, heavy pans, rods, tools, etc.) and a selection of designed sounds. These designed elements include processed impacts, pitch-shifted scrapes, granular textures, and reversed hits.

    Every sound was recorded using a Sennheiser MKH 8050 microphone and a Zoom F6 recorder and files are delivered in high-resolution 24-bit / 192kHz WAV format.

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Grand Central Station

'Grand Central Station' by In Motion Audio has recordings from Grand Central Station, capturing the vibrant ambience of commuters and tourists. It includes crowd noise, announce-ments, and human interactions.
 
  • Environments & Ambiences Grand Central Station Play Track 22 sounds included, 38 mins total $20

    We managed to record in the amazing and stunning Main Hall of the Grand Central Station in New York whilst on our travels, capturing the ambience of the daily commuter and tourists who flock to see this amazing building.


    These Ambiences include:

    Main Hall Ambience
    Info Booth Ambience and Tannoy
    A one man Public Protest
    Crowd/Walla
    Commuters
    Tourists
    People moving
    People moving with Baggage
    People talking close and distant
    Regular tannoy announcements

    When editing the ambiences, there were a variety of close mic’ed human interactions and baggage movement which may not be fitting when placing these into a projects so we’ve re-edited these samples and provided a set of “B” Samples which have these removed.

    Grand Central Station will give you enough audio to give your project the authentic sound of this amazing train station, boosting your project to the next level. Grand Central Station has been edited to allow a drop in ready and Royalty Free sample pack. These Samples can be used in a variety of projects from Sound Designing/Compositions for TV, Film, Documentaries and Video Games. UCS Compliant and Metadata is attached to the samples

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Ceramic Smashes

'Ceramic Smashes' by Sound Armoury offers over 480 ceramic sounds, featuring both raw and designed audio from porcelain and terracotta. Files are in 24-bit 96kHz WAV format, UCS compliant, and can be used commercially or personally without attribution.
 
  • Destruction & Impact Sounds Ceramic Smashes Play Track 486 sounds included $19.99

    This is a sound library containing a wide variety of both raw and designed ceramic sounds, including porcelain and terracotta.

     

    Features:

    • 480+ audio files in 24 bit 96kHz WAV format
    • UCS compliant file naming and metadata
    • Available for commercial or personal use without attribution
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Nature Ambiences

'Nature Ambiences' by rawAmbience provides immersive recordings from natural environments, including forests and rivers. These tracks enhance creative projects with peaceful and authentic nature backgrounds.
 
  • Environments & Ambiences Nature Ambiences Play Track 10 sounds included, 33 mins total $12.99

    A digital collection of immersive soundscapes captured from diverse natural environments. Perfect for filmmakers, game developers, meditation practitioners, and sound designers. This library features recordings of forests, rivers, bird calls and more. Each track is professionally recorded to deliver an authentic and immersive experience, making it ideal for enhancing creative projects, relaxation, or background ambience. Let the pure sounds of nature transport you to a place of peace and tranquility.

     

    Track list:

    • Birds, Nature, Spring
    • Forest Birds
    • Forest River
    • Rain Lake

     

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Massive Contact

'Massive Contact' by Massive Sound FX has over 1,000 SFX from contact microphones, capturing a range of vibrations, impacts, and textures over nearly 4 hours. Metadata is included for easy navigation of this library.
 
  • Foley Sound Effects Massive Contact Play Track 1153 sounds included, 237 mins total $49.99

    MASSIVE CONTACT – 1153 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Massive Contact comes in at 3 hours and 57 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Massive Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

    Don’t need a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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Mini Contact

'Mini Contact' by Massive Sound FX is a selection of 75 unique contact mic sounds, totaling over 21 minutes of varied intensities. It includes gentle wipes, thuds, and machine sounds for a small but mighty pack.
 
  • Foley Sound Effects Mini Contact Play Track 75 sounds included, 21 mins total $9.99

    MINI Contact – 75 files of Contact sound effects, at varying distances and intensities. From gentle surface wipes and thud hits to water movement vibrations and machine racket to foliage friction and metallic tones. Mini Contact comes in at over 21 minutes, of contact microphone noises. Bring kinetic power and textured tension to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using piezoelectric sensitive stereo contact microphones capable of recording surface vibration frequencies. Mini Contact filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

    Looking for a Massive amount of Contact sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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    Foley Sound Effects Grenade Foley Play Track 1374 sounds included $15

    A focused collection of grenade foley, captured with precision using replica units. This library provides the essential, clean sounds of tactical handling, interaction, and impacts.

    Recorded at 96kHz/24-bit across various surfaces including steel plates, carpet, wood floorings, soil, and grass, this library offers variation for different environments. The recordings feature grenade shakes, surface impacts and rolls, pin pulls, spoon lever ejections, spoon drops, and tactical gear foley, all captured with Lewitt LCT 540 S and Shure SM7B.

    This is a practical toolkit for sound designers working in film, games, and other media, providing a tonal and versatile foundation for building realistic military action.

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  • Car Sound Effects Toyota MR2 1984 sports car Play Track 228 sounds included, 44 mins total $65

    All files are recorded 32bit, 192 kHz, with RØDE NTG1, Line Audio Omni1 and FEL Clippy XLR EM272 microphones, Sound Devices MixPre-6 II recorder. Library contains wav files of driving, interior and exterior foley, mechanical and electrical sounds. It is also available in UCS.

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  • Animal Sound Effects Collections Botswana Play Track 49+ sounds included, 136 mins total From: $60

    Botswana Faunethic sound library is a unique collection of 49 sounds recorded through several national parks of the country (Okavango, Chobe,…). All these sounds has been recorded and produced with high quality equipment in multichannel.

    This collection offers a wide diversity of soundscapes and animals sounds such as:

    -Bush, savanna and forest soundscapes.
    -Hippopotamus grunt and vocals.
    -Elephants vocals, showering and drinking.
    -Zebras and impalas fighting.
    -Lion chasing an elephant during one night.
    -Birds and insects at different perspectives.
    -Villages

    If you want to hear more about this field recording trip, feel free to check this post.
    The multichannel version contains 40 tracks in native 4.0 and 9 tracks recorded in stereo only.

    This library provides authentic and interesting sounds, recorded with DPA, MBHO and Neumann mics powered by an Aeta 4minX.
    All Faunethic tracks includes metadata carefully edited, compatible with Soundminer, Soundly and Basehead.

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  • Bundles Quietsub FX Complete Bundle Play Track 15055 sounds included $379

    Quietsub FX Complete Bundle

    Quietsub FX is a library of 15,055 sound effects at 24 bit 96,000 BWF. The library is organized into a number of collections related to specific categories, and a large miscellaneous category. The library was recorded to be as comprehensive as possible with an emphasis on quality and choice for users.

    The Complete Bundle includes the following parts:

    Quietsub FX gives you a wide ranging library of sound effects. Production of the library focused on creating high quality and choice for users, which ultimately is what creators want. This package is ideal for film, video, radio, podcast, and wherever sound effects are used.

    All files include metadata.

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  • Travel & Transportation Quietsub FX Transportation Play Track 1321 sounds included $59

    Quietsub FX Transportation

    An extensive collection of 1,321 Transportation sounds. If it has means of movement to carry people or goods, whether by engine or human propulsion, you’ll likely find it here.

    This collection comes in two parts. The transportation portion, and Transit Chimes.

    Transit Chimes: Transit Chimes are the sounds you hear all the time on public transportation. Dings, dongs, attention getters. This collection of 70 sound effects gives everything you need to satisfy your craving for these noises. Use them in your productions, or start your own transit system.

    Transportation: People are always going somewhere. And they sure make lots of noise doing it. Just about anything that moves people or freight can be found here.

    Recording for this category is outside the studio affair. A tremendous amount of time driving and walking around, as well as planting yourself in strategic locations where vehicles do their thing.

    • Cars general
    • Classic cars
    • Sports cars
    • Boats
    • Aircraft
    • Bicycles
    • Buses
    • Motorcycles
    • Trucks general
    • Garbage Truck
    • Highway and street backgrounds
    • Traffic sounds

    This extensive collection touches all the bases.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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  • Whoosh Sound Effects Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects Play Track 128 sounds included $25

    Quietsub FX Video Transition Sound Effects

    A great collection of 128 Video Transition Sound Effects. These are designed to be used at video edit points to add impact.

    Video Editors will enjoy these video transition effects. In recent years, sound effects began appearing in videos to accompany the actual visual edit. This was the inspiration for creating this collection.

    There’s no better way to add depth to video edits than with short sounds and ramps. These work great with short video breakup visuals and flashes.

    This collection is made up of various wipes and transitions.

    Cut away. Chop, Hack etc. These sounds will make those video transitions more interesting.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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  • Sci-Fi Sound Effects Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds Play Track 192 sounds included $25

    Quietsub FX Sci-Fi Sounds

    A collection of 192 Sci-Fi Sounds.

    There’s lots of science fiction out there, but still no little green men. Possibly that’s what makes sci-fi so popular. The dream of something you think may exist, but cannot be proven. Sci-Fi, of course, has its own sounds. In this collection of 183 sound effects, you will find most of what you will need to outfit your next spacecraft.

    Included in this collection:

    • Alien interiors
    • Blasters
    • Backgrounds
    • Space ship sounds

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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  • Materials & Texture Sound Effects Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts Play Track 159 sounds included $39

    Quietsub FX Mechanical Parts

    A collection of 159 mechanical sounds made by small motors. This is the result of a massive editing job involving small metal and plastic parts, and any other item made by humans and others.

    Stuff that clicks, winds, and moves by itself.

    This collection covers the world of small mechanics. Sounds in this collection include:

    • Clicking
    • Cranking
    • Metal levers
    • Metal movement
    • Winding
    • Running
    • Slowing
    • Squeaking

    You can get all wound up with this kind of thing. Something for any mechanical mind.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

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