14 sound libraries Asbjoern Andersen


This week on A Sound Effect, we delve into an exciting array of sound libraries, helping you find the perfect sounds to match your vision.

For those in need of adrenaline-pumping audio, look no futher than dynamic and intense action effects, powerful and impactful hits of hand-to-hand combat, crisp weapon handling sounds, and the chaotic sounds of excavators in action.

If your project requires rich textures and realistic environments, discover the warm textures of authentic wood tones, intriguing doors and locking mechanisms, subtle atmospheric door sounds, bold and resonant hammer strikes, a lively and industrious carpenters workshop, and a vintage manual grinding wheel with mechanical charm.

Finally, for those looking to add a sprinkle of creativity and flair, you can hear quirky whimsical whistles, eerie spine-chilling Halloween effects, and polished radio imaging and commercial sounds.

We hope you find exactly what you need to bring your creative endeavors to life. Happy listening!


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The Urban Gun Handling Library

'The Urban Gun Handling Library' by Pole Position Production features handling of battle rifles, SMGs, and machine guns in urban environments from three Swedish weapons.
 
  • Urban Gun Handling Sound Effects

    The Urban Gun Handling sound effects library features battle rifle, submachine gun, and machine gun movement and handling.
    It contains 90 sound files in 2.38 gigabytes of gunshots in urban and industrial spaces.

    The recordings showcase 3 weapons: a Swedish Ak 4 battle rifle (aka Heckler & Koch G3, automatkarbin 4) with 7.62x51mm NATO cartridge, A Swedish Kpist m/45B submachine gun (aka Carl Gustaf M/45, Swedish K) with 9x19mm Parabellum or 9×19mm m/39B cartridge, and a Swedish Ksp m/36 machine gun (aka Kulspruta m/36 and m/42 or Browning M1317) with 6.5x55mm cartridge. The performances include handling, movement, and more.

Wood

'Wood' by SmartsoundFX lets you explore the natural acoustics of wood, from snapping bamboo to logs tumbling, with cracking wood, scraping against metal, and baseball bats dropping.
 
  • Wood Sound Effects Wood Play Track 581 sounds included $59

    Immerse yourself in the natural acoustics of wood, a material that speaks the language of the earth through every interaction. From the resilient snap of bamboo sticks to the deep thud of logs tumbling together, each sound tells a tale of strength and fragility. Experience the eerie whisper of rotten wood cracking, the sharp contrast of wood scraping against metal, and the definitive sound of a baseball bat dropping to the ground. The subtle drama of branches hitting a wooden surface evokes the timeless dance of nature and human endeavor, crafting an auditory canvas rich with texture and life.

Combat Bundle – Ultimate Fighting

'Combat Bundle – Ultimate Fighting' by rawAmbience has four sound packs, featuring realistic punches, impacts, weapon swings, and authentic clashes.
 
  • Bundles Combat Bundle – Ultimate Fighting Play Track 469 sounds included, 11 mins total $50

    Unleash the full power of combat audio with the Combat Bundle, a premium collection of four crafted sound packs designed to bring every fight scene to life. Featuring a massive library of realistic punches, bone-crushing impacts, powerful weapon swings, blade clashes, shield blocks, and brutal stabs, this bundle delivers everything you need to create truly immersive and dynamic battle sequences.
    Perfect for game developers, filmmakers, and sound designers, the Combat Bundle combines authenticity, detail, and intensity to ensure every strike, block, and clash feels impactful and cinematic. Whether you’re designing action-packed brawlers, RPGs, animations, or films, this all-in-one bundle provides the essential audio tools to elevate your combat scenes and keep players and audiences fully engaged.

Hand Combat Bundle

'Hand Combat Bundle' by rawAmbience offers 430 punch, hit, and slam sound effects, perfect for high-impact action scenes in films and games with realistic combat.
 
  • Bundles Hand Combat Bundle Play Track 430 sounds included, 4 mins total $38

    Bring the intensity of close-quarters combat to life with the Hand Combat SFX Bundle — a powerhouse collection of 430 professionally designed punch, hit, and slam sound effects crafted for high-impact action scenes. This bundle combines four premium libraries into one essential toolkit for sound designers, game developers, filmmakers, and animators.

    Inside, you’ll find a wide range of realistic body hits, powerful punches, bone-crushing smashes, swift swings, and visceral impacts — all designed to deliver cinematic weight, realism, and energy. Whether you’re designing for a gritty brawler game, an animated fight sequence, or a blockbuster film, these sounds give every strike the punch it deserves.

    Bundle Includes:

    • 430 Total WAV Files
    • Over 4.5 Minutes of Combat Audio
    • 48 kHz / 24-bit & 44.1 kHz / 16-bit Quality
    • Total Size: ~52 MB

    No weapons, no armor — just raw, unfiltered impact. The Hand Combat SFX Bundle is your go-to resource for delivering the sound of hand-to-hand warfare with unmatched clarity and force.

     

Wild Whistles

'Wild Whistles' by Gee Collection gets you over 2.88 GB of whistle sounds, including realistic and stylized tones, ranging from traditional whistles to creative effects.
 
  • Wild Whistles is a varied collection of whistle sounds, ranging from realistic to stylized.

    From traditional plastic and metal whistles to mouth-and-finger calls, this library offers a wide range of expressive source material. Expect familiar tones of train and police officers, referees, and party whistles, as well as more humorous and exaggerated designs perfect for animation and stylized projects.

    In addition to the raw recordings, the library includes a set of designed sounds crafted from these whistles. You’ll find tonal impacts, alarms, creature vocals, arrow fly-bys, and even jet pass-bys, all shaped from whistle elements to spark creativity and surprise.

    This collection can be used for both realistic contexts and more creative or cartoon-oriented projects.

    Wild Whisltes contains more than 2.88 GB / 238 files / +1400 sounds.

Locks & Doors

'Locks & Doors' by Sound Spectro features doors and locks, including wooden, metal, and plastic types and mechanisms like opening, closing, locking, key handling, and more.
 
  • Door Sound Effects Locks & Doors Play Track 100 sounds included, 7 mins total $18

    This library gathers recordings captured with a contact microphone on various types of doors and locks. It includes wooden, metal, and plastic doors, as well as gates, residential doors, and office doors.

    The recordings highlight the internal mechanisms of locks: opening, closing, locking, unlocking, clicks, and latch movements. The collection also features isolated key handling and keychain sounds.

    The set provides detailed and usable sound material for sound design, post-production, or mechanical analysis.

Hammer Impacts

'Hammer Impacts' by Justin Jet Zorbas offers 53 impacts on nails, wood, and metal surfaces, as well as soft, medium, and heavy hits with both single and multiple strikes.
 
EXCAVATOR MAYHEM – Mud & Water

'EXCAVATOR MAYHEM – Mud & Water' by Álvaro Gómez Zorrilla highlights sounds from a backhoe loader, focusing on liquid textures, including over 5 hours of impacts, splashes, and more, in various environments.
 
  • Presenting EXCAVATOR MAYHEM — a vast collection of massive sounds captured from a real backhoe loader in action with its engine off. Mud & Water is the first volume in this series, packed with everything you need to shake your audience with authentic, colossal recordings drawn from every imaginable liquid texture. No layering, no sound design — what you hear is exactly how it sounded on site.

    This library condenses more than 5 hours of recordings from 4 sessions into a curated collection, captured at a riverbank, a swamp, and a pit dug with the excavator, where a spring began filling it with groundwater, creating a massive water pool. Combined with the excavator’s boom, this setting allowed me to perform large-scale foley actions such as impacts, drops, splashes, splatters, bubbles, drains, waterfalls, and much more.

    Some recordings were captured with up to 10 channels across 4 microphone perspectives, including A-format ambisonics and an experimental stereo geophone that managed to capture rich underwater textures without the need for a hydrophone. These are available in the RAW folder, while the PROCESSED folder contains both downmixes from all microphones and subtly refined versions of the sounds with light compression and EQ—nothing too aggressive, just to give you more “ready-to-go” files.

    EXCAVATOR MAYHEM: Mud & Water | Sound Effects | Trailer
Vintage Manual Grinding Wheel

'Vintage Manual Grinding Wheel' by Hidden Sound offers recordings of a pedal-powered grindstone, offering rhythmic, gritty sounds like scrapes, squeaks, and metal-on-stone movements.
 
  • Vintage Manual Grinding Wheel is a field/foley recording collection of mechanical tones sourced from a vintage manual, pedal-powered grindstone wheel.

    Once found in blacksmith shops and farmyards, this antique sharpening and grinding wheel produces a diverse range of rhythmic, gritty, abrasive scrapes, squeaks and rattling, resonant metal-on-stone movements.

    Captured through varied rotations, slow and fast turns, sudden releases, back-and-forth and random movements – this library is packed with friction rich textures.

    Vintage Manual Grinding Wheel

The Carpenters Workshop

'The Carpenters Workshop' by Justin Jet Zorbas offers 267 woodwork and crafting sounds that will enhance creative projects with immersive and realistic audio elements.
 
Quietsub FX Doors

'Quietsub FX Doors' by Quietsub FX showcases 440 diverse door sounds in 96kHz/24-bit format, including inside, outside, and sliding doors, as well as locks and hardware.
 
  • Quietsub FX Doors

    A collection of 440 door sound effects that provide the fundamentals creators need to fulfill their door dreams.

    An open and shut case.

    This collection captures doors of all types. This includes:

    • Inside doors
    • Outside doors
    • Front doors
    • Sliding doors
    • Garage doors
    • Closets
    • Locks, keys, and related hardware

    Door sound effects, along with footsteps have proven to be on of the most common sounds used. For video, doors often take a role as foley. Radio and audio podcasts utilize these sounds to indicate movement and actions.

    Your desire for all things doors can be found here.

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

Quietsub FX Halloween

'Quietsub FX Halloween' by Quietsub FX presents 71 eerie sounds perfect for Halloween, featuring ghosts, wall knocks, bats, and laughter, allowing you to create for spooky vibes.
 
  • Quietsub FX Halloween

    A terrific general collection of 71 Halloween sounds. Here you will find all things that go bump in the night. The fundamental sounds needed to celebrate this annual tradition.

    When Halloween nears, the need for those scary sound emerges. Ghosts and goblins are in their glory. Halloween movies, new and old are a must watch. The need for costumes spurs temporary Halloween stores to spring up. Then there’s the creepy feeling that this season brings.

    This collection of scary stuff includes:

    • Backgrounds
    • Ghosts
    • Wall knocks
    • Crazy laughter
    • Bats flying
    • Compilation that’s great for a background to greet trick or treaters at the front door

    Scare up some audio fun!!

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

Quietsub FX Radio Imaging Workparts

'Quietsub FX Radio Imaging Workparts' by Quietsub FX presents 1,005 sounds tailored for radio imaging and promotions, including glitches, lasers, whooshes, and more.
 
  • A large collection of 1,005 Radio Imaging Workparts. Radio producers are always in need of more of these sounds to keep their work fresh.

    A great selection of Radio Imaging Workparts.

    When you listen to radio stations, most of the on-air promotions contain electronic sounders. Some are short, some have long tails. A number of these are used to orchestrate the promotion. These build excitement, momentum, intensity, drama, and even humor. The focus of this collection is to provide radio producers with a great supply of fresh material to draw on.

    In this collection:

    • Glitches
    • Lasers galore
    • Starters
    • Stoppers
    • Slow downs
    • Whooshes
    • Lots of stuff with crazy names

    Whether you’re producing for an over-the-air station, Internet, school, or public radio, these effects are a great tool in your box. You will never be able to get enough of these types of effects, regardless of how many stinger and music packages you can find. You will always have a need for fresh material. There will always be a need for new material. Remember, in radio production, you are only as good as the voices, music, and effects you have available.

    Make your radio station sound great!

    Files are 24-96000 BWF with metadata.

Gongs

'Gongs' by Aum Audio features a unique collection of gongs drafted by the metallurgist master Shawn Aceto and brought to life by master performer of the shamanic sound, Eddie Funxta.
 
  • Unleash the sonic power of the gong with Aum Audio’s Gongs sound effects library.



    Gongs sound library


    Step into the sonic world of Shawn Aceto Sounds with a unique collection of gongs. Crafted by the metallurgist master Shawn Aceto and brought to life by master performer of the shamanic sound, Eddie Funxta.
    These gongs are sonic marvels, designed to produce a full spectrum of tones, from primal, earth-shaking crashes to ethereal whispers that linger in the air. Add emotional vibrations and dramatic depth into your projects from a unique source in the gong and musical instrument industry.
    Four selected gongs are included in this collection. Rain, Shri Yantra, Soul Voyager and Star Child. A variety of striking mallets, friction mallets, and percussive sticks were used along with Funxta’s touch and finesse to provide a multitude of takes for a wide selection of emotional impacts to choose from. Ringing decay lengths are from short 3 second accents to almost 2 minute sustains with some having big low end. Get it on and let’s bang a gong.
    Royalty-free for commercial use in any of your creativity, such as film, television, radio, gaming, podcasts, audio books and more.


    What’s in the Product?

    • 240 files totaling 5.87 GB, about 150 minutes
    • Recordings of the 40″ Rain, 32″ Soul Voyager, 32″ Star Child, 28″ Shri Yantra gongs
    • Various takes of mallet strikes, flumie friction rubs, percussive taps
    • Files are BWAV format in stereo 96k at 24bit resolution, metadata enabled
    • Universal Category System (UCS) standardized naming convention
    • Product description, metadata sheets & EULA
    • Artwork

 

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A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

  • The Seagulls sfx library includes 28 tracks of both single, isolated seagull screams, and bigger flocks of nesting seagulls, calling out to each other and their chicks. There are plenty of classic call sounds, but also some weird throaty and raspy screaming, and what could sound like seagull laughing sounds.

    All tracks are recorded with the very useful zoom function of the Telinga microphone and dish.
    Library includes both untreated tracks, and noise reduction processed tracks in two separate folders. Noise reduction processed tracks have carefully been cleaned up with a CEDAR NR system.

    Though these birds are in an abundance around most harbours and industry around here, they are not always easy to record. You mostly hear them from a distance, or from places not easy to access. When you try to get close to them, they will usually fly away.

    Many hours have been spent on rooftops, gardens, backyards, a junkyard, and different harbours to get this material.

  • This is a unique bicycle library that captures road surfaces from the perspective of super quiet bicycle. These are clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings and smooth stops.

    The Extra Surfaces library provides 162 sounds captured on the following road types Large Bricks, Gravel, Grit, Icy Asphalt.

    The four additional ‘onboard road’ surfaces are the perfect extension for your other ‘City Bicycle’ library of taste. Just add it as a layer, mix it and voila your bicycle can move from gravel to bricks to grit or from large bricks to slippery icy asphalt roads.

    Speeds and actions:

    Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently brakes to smooth departures.

    Five perspectives:
    1. Onboard Front: captures the whirring tire and surface sound.
    2. Onboard Pedal: nice overall combination of pedaling, crank creaks, chain rattle, tire and surface sounds.
    3. Onboard Rear: close up sound of the rear axle, with chain, sprocket and switching of gear.
    4. Tracking shot: mono recording of the passby, keeping the bike in focus while passing by.
    5. Static XY shot: stereo recording of the passby that emphasizes speed.

    Overview of perspectives and mic placement:

    Onboard recordings are 2-3 minutes long depending on speed. Higher speeds > shorter duration.
    All 3 onboard mics are edited in sync with one another to make layering easy.
    All Passbys, Arrivals and Departures move from Left to Right.

    Metadata & Markers:

    FREE UPDATE to City Bicycles: now conforms to UCS with new metadata to quickly find your sounds.

    Because we know how important metadata is for your sound libraries we have created a consistent and intuitive description method that adheres to the Universal Category System. This allows you to find the sound you need easily, whether you work in a database like Soundminer/Basehead/PT Workspace work, or a Exporer/Finder window. We made a video that helps you navigate the library ans find your best bicycle sounds faster and easier.

    CategoryFull
    A quick way to filter out sounds you don’t need: like handling sounds or vice versa bicycle onboards.

    UserCategory
    Fastest way to find the type of action you need for all bicycles. Passby needed, just click and voila.

    OpenTier

    Once you’ve selected the bike you can open up OpenTier and audition and select the perspective you want to use.

    Scene &  Performer
    This field contains the type of bicycle or other sound. So you can find the bike you like fast.

    iXMLTrackLayout
    This is a neat little identifier you will find in the Waveform displays and you can see in a glance what Listening position you are.

    MicPerspective

    We have another way to find perspectives but it is more limited to distance to the recorded subject.
    So passbys are MED – EXT and handling are CU – EXT. Exterior? Of course: we recorded everything outside!

    UserComments
    We used this field to create the UserData and give you the minimal set of information about the recording in the filename.

    Additionally, we added Markers to some wave files, so specific sound events are easy to spot in Soundminer and other apps.

    If you have any questions about this, please contact us info@frickandtraa.com!

    Need more?
    The GoodBike library is a part of the ‘City Bicycles – Complete Bundle‘ available here in the A Sound Effect store. It consists of all 4 bicycles and includes additional surfaces and extras ranging from one-off  bicycle passes captured in the city and bounces and rattles. If you buy the complete bundle you get 1 package for free!

    Here’s a handy comparison table:

     

    'City Bicycles'  Sound Library by Frick & Traa
    Responses:

    344 AUDIO:City Bicycles has a plethora of content, for a great price. The perfect balance between a great concept, great presentation and outstanding execution, lands them an almost perfect score of 4.9..

    The Audio Spotlight: City Bicycles is worth getting if you are in need of great sounding and well edited bicycle sounds.

    Watch a video created by Zdravko Djordjevic.

    City Bicycles sound examples

     

  • This is a unique bicycle library that captures this characteristic bike in clean, quiet, nicely performed true exterior rides. Including multiple perspectives, speeds and actions. From fast passbys on asphalt to slow onboard recordings and smooth stops.

    The GoodBike is a smooth sounding retro bike that doesn’t rattle or squeak, it has a really nice tire sound for a subtle presence in the mix.

    Speeds and actions:
    Three speeds. Departures from slow, medium to fast getaways. Arrivals from slow stops with gently squeaking handbrakes to heavy stuttering skids.

    Five perspectives:
    1. Onboard Front: captures the whirring tire and surface sound.
    2. Onboard Pedal: nice overall combination of pedaling, crank creaks, chain rattle, tire and surface sounds.
    3. Onboard Rear: close up sound of the rear axle, with chain, sprocket and switching of gear.
    4. Tracking shot: mono recording of the passby, keeping the bike in focus while passing by.
    5. Static XY shot: stereo recording of the passby that emphasizes speed.

    Overview of perspectives and mic placement:

    Onboard recordings are 2-3 minutes long depending on speed. Higher speeds > shorter duration.
    All 3 onboard mics are edited in sync with one another to make layering easy.
    All Passbys, Arrivals and Departures move from Left to Right.

    Metadata & Markers:

    FREE UPDATE to City Bicycles: now conforms to UCS with new metadata to quickly find your sounds.

    Because we know how important metadata is for your sound libraries we have created a consistent and intuitive description method that adheres to the Universal Category System. This allows you to find the sound you need easily, whether you work in a database like Soundminer/Basehead/PT Workspace work, or a Exporer/Finder window. We made a video that helps you navigate the library ans find your best bicycle sounds faster and easier.

    CategoryFull
    A quick way to filter out sounds you don’t need: like handling sounds or vice versa bicycle onboards.

    UserCategory
    Fastest way to find the type of action you need for all bicycles. Passby needed, just click and voila.

    OpenTier

    Once you’ve selected the bike you can open up OpenTier and audition and select the perspective you want to use.

    Scene &  Performer
    This field contains the type of bicycle or other sound. So you can find the bike you like fast.

    iXMLTrackLayout
    This is a neat little identifier you will find in the Waveform displays and you can see in a glance what Listening position you are.

    MicPerspective

    We have another way to find perspectives but it is more limited to distance to the recorded subject.
    So passbys are MED – EXT and handling are CU – EXT. Exterior? Of course: we recorded everything outside!

    UserComments
    We used this field to create the UserData and give you the minimal set of information about the recording in the filename.

    Additionally, we added Markers to some wave files, so specific sound events are easy to spot in Soundminer and other apps.

    If you have any questions about this, please contact us info@frickandtraa.com!

    Need more?
    The GoodBike library is a part of the ‘City Bicycles – Complete Bundle‘ available here in the A Sound Effect store. It consists of all 4 bicycles and includes additional surfaces and extras ranging from one-off  bicycle passes captured in the city and bounces and rattles. If you buy the complete bundle you get 1 package for free!

    Here’s a handy comparison table:

    'City Bicycles'  Sound Library by Frick & Traa

     

    Here’s a handy comparison table:

    'City Bicycles'  Sound Library by Frick & Traa
    Responses:

    344 AUDIO:City Bicycles has a plethora of content, for a great price. The perfect balance between a great concept, great presentation and outstanding execution, lands them an almost perfect score of 4.9..

    The Audio Spotlight: City Bicycles is worth getting if you are in need of great sounding and well edited bicycle sounds.

    Watch a video created by Zdravko Djordjevic.

    City Bicycles sound examples

     

Explore the full, unique collection here

Latest sound effects libraries:
 
  • 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 only available in UCS.

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    VEHICLE SIRENS: EUROPE is the ultimate emergency siren collection, featuring more than 20 authentic tones from across Spain, France, Italy, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. From police, ambulance, and fire services, every signature tone has been captured with clarity and precision to deliver the most comprehensive European siren library ever made.

    Every wail, yelp, hi-lo, polytone and air horn has been captured from multiple perspectives: static takes in close, medium and distant, pass-bys, approaches, aways, ambisonic interiors, and natural reflections across diverse environments – from narrow village alleys to vast mountain valleys – all carefully captured to deliver true-to-life acoustics.

    A year of research, field recording, and editing – distilled into a single library.

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  • A collection of sounds of opening and closing drawers from various desks and cabinets.

    Includes:
    • Cabinet Drawer
    • Desk Drawer
    • Drawer
    • Dresser Drawer
    • Kitchen Drawer
    • Office Desk Drawer
    • Paper Drawer
    • Wardrobe Drawer
  • Foley Sound Effects Elevator Sounds Play Track 69 sounds included, 14 mins total $10
    This pack includes the following sounds:
    • elevator operation while moving;
    • elevator doors opening and closing;
    • elevator buttons and the elevator call button.
  • Door Sound Effects Door Sounds Play Track 93 sounds included, 3 mins total $9

    This small sound collection includes:

    • Door Lock Opening and Closing (6 sounds)
    • Interior Door Opening and Closing (12 sounds)
    • Iron Door Opening and Closing (4 sounds)
    • Knocking Door (14 sounds)
    • Old Wooden Door Opening and Closing (17 sounds)
    • Squeaking and Creaking Doors (40 sounds)

   

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